Specials Events to be held at National Wildlife Refuges
around the Country
The Fish and Wildlife Service is "Celebrating Special Places for Birds" with hundreds of International Migratory Bird Day (IMBD) events planned across the nation around the official date of May 11, 2002. The IMBD 2002 theme of "special places" reminds us that the conservation of birds requires that we provide and protect their habitats.
"International Migratory Bird Day is the perfect time to emphasize the need to set aside places for wildlife . . . and to get outside and experience these locations ourselves," said Fish and Wildlife Service Director Steve Williams.
Birds are found all around us, in cities, farms, schoolyards, backyards, parks, roadsides, forests, beaches, and fields. They live wherever they can find suitable habitat
