BNHS Flamingo Festival — Mumbai, 5th March, 2016
- On:
March 5, 2016 - Timing:
12:30PM to 6:00PM - Location:
Sewri Jetty
- City:
Mumbai - Website
It’s time to meet the pink beauties at the annual BNHS Flamingo Festival!
BNHS-India is all geared up to once again host its annual Flamingo Festival on Saturday, 5th March 2016. This hugely popular annual event, which takes the form of a “nature fair”, provides an excellent opportunity to closely observe and enjoy dozens of species of wetland birds, with over 15,000 flamingos as the main attraction.
Apart from observing flamingos to one’s heart’s content, this is also a good opportunity to observe other species of resident and migratory water birds including various species of herons, egrets, ibises, gulls, terns, sandpipers and kingfishers, under the guidance of BNHS experts. One can also gain a lot of knowledge about wetland ecosystem and birds through entertaining quizzes/bird tattoos; visual displays (exhibition), nature publications and educational activities like “Span your Wings” and “Beak and Feet”. Winners from various competitions held will also be felicitated on the day of the Festival.
Lesser flamingos at the Sewri jetty mudflats
Myriad online competitions have been planned for various age groups by BNHS Conservation Education Centre (CEC), which will be hosted as events on BNHS official Face Book page, with exciting prizes in each category. Starting a week before the Festival, the following competitions will be hosted, one per day: Painting (standard 5th to 7th), Slogan writing (standard 8th to 10th), Poetry writing (first year college to post graduation), Photography (all age groups) and Quiz (all age groups). Entries can be in English or Marathi. Competitions have also been planned in the categories of Painting, Poetry writing and Slogan writing in offline format through submission of entries. Entries can be in English or Marathi and the eligible age group is from standard 5th to 8th. Last date of submitting entries by post or courier is 20th February 2016. For more details and competition rules please visit www.bnhs.org.
Festival Details
BNHS Flamingo Festival, in association with Mumbai Port Trust (MPT), is open for everyone and entry is absolutely free. Free bus services have been arranged from Sewri railway station (east) for the visitors from 12.00 noon till 5.00 pm on 5th March. Following are the details in a nutshell.
Date: 5th March 2016
Time: 12.30 pm till sunset
Venue: Sewri Jetty, Mumbai
For details contact:
Ms. Bilwada Kale
Assistant PRO, BNHS
022-22821811
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