Interacting with nature is widely recognised as providing many health and well-being benefits. As people live increasingly urbanised lifestyles, the provision of food for garden birds may create a vital link for connecting people to nature and enabling them to access these benefits. However, it is not clear which factors determine the pleasure that people receive from watching birds at their fe...

Avitourism is a responsible tourism activity where birdwatchers perform bird-watching, which can be either hobby or dedicated practice. Bird-watching an act of observing and identifying birds in their natural environment. It performed by using the naked eye, binoculars scope for visual enhancement, listening to bird songs, public cams. Ayer Hitam Utara Forest Reserve peat swamp forest, type tro...

ecotourism is based on environmental potential and presents an opportunity for suitable utilization and conservation of the sites under management practices, considering accurate planning, potential of the area and people preferences. the present study is conducted to evaluate the ecotourism potential in miankaleh wildlife refuge. the area is located south of the caspian sea. after defining the...

What turned you on to biology? I grew up amongst the wildlife of the West of England, and when I encountered an inspiring biology teacher, John Keylock, he introduced me to bird-watching and ecology. This included the systematic recording of winter wildfowl movements, and my first published observations were of bird numbers on seasonally flooded Somerset Levels. Finding errors in school biology...

Wild bird watching has become a popular leisure activity in recent years. Very often, people can see birds or hear their sounds, but have no idea what kind of bird species they are seeing. To help people learn to identify bird species from their sounds, we apply speech recognition techniques to build an automatic bird sound identification system. In this system, two acoustic cues are used for a...