Cambridgeshire Bird Club Partnership with Oursi: Twelve years of site support at Oursi

Sunday 7 February 2010

Twelve years of site support at Oursi

A BirdLife International press release from 29 January 2010 reports on 12 years of work of the site support group, the Cambridgeshire Bird Club partner club, at Lake Oursi. Read more about what the site support group has been doing and what they have achieved, with strong support from NATURAMA, the BirdLife partner organisation in Burkina Faso: http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2010/01/lake_oursi.html

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Many of our birds in Cambridgeshire migrate south in autumn to spend the winter in Africa, building a natural link for birds and birdwatchers between Europe and Africa. Burkina Faso is a sub-Sahelian country which harbours many European birds, and even a number of birds ringed in Cambridgeshire have been recovered in this African nation.

Lake Oursi is one of only ten Important Bird Areas (IBA) in Burkina Faso, located in the very dry north close to the borders with Niger and Mali (See Google Map and a PDF Map). This site, made up of a series of lakes interspersed with sand-dunes, grassland and stands of trees, is very important for wetland birds.

We hope to regularly exchange information with the Oursi Bird Club and let our members know when birds from Europe arrive, how the numbers of typical ‘Cambridgeshire birds’ such as the Black-tailed Godwit are doing at Oursi, what other species do occur there etc.

If you wish to find out more about this partnership please contact peterherkenrath(AT)yahoo.co.uk of the Cambridgeshire Bird Club.

Cambridgeshire Bird Club Partnership with Oursi

Sunday 7 February 2010

Twelve years of site support at Oursi

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