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Details of Sunday’s Urban Birds Walk announced
Citizen scientists, bird lovers and friends,
Do hope you will be minded to brave the early start to join us Sunday morning for our 2012 Birds of Bankside Walk. Though we have now filled places for the monitoring project, please do pass this on to friends who might be interested just in joining the walk as it will be a good opportunity to see an often hidden side of the city up close.
Our early morning walk will focus our wild neighbours: some are disappearing, some are recent colonists. Can we still make the space for them? Where will they breed and bring up the next generation? What do they need?
The walk will be led by author and broadcaster Peter Holden and architect Catherine du Toit of 51% Studios Architecture and will be a journey of discovery round the streets and parks of Bankside, ending in a secret garden not usually open to the public. We will be visiting Nestworks along the way.
Meet 7.30am Sunday 20 May @ the Island Cafe, 1 Flat Iron Square, Southwark, London SE1 0AB. 
Will make sure there is opportunity for hot, steamy coffee and croissants at the Tate Modern directly afterwards.
For further details about the project, and online monitoring forms, please see http://urbanbirds.net/
Looking forward to hearing from Peter Holden MBE on our Urban Birds Walk, this Sunday
Peter has been passionate about birds and wildlife for as long as he can remember. He was a senior manager for the RSPB for over 40 years, where he devised the ever popular Big Garden Birdwatch which has grown into the largest wildlife survey in the world!
Peter’s activities are dedicated to taking the magic of wildlife to new audiences. For many years he advised BBCs Blue Peter and often appeared in their garden!
When Peter is not on television, he collaborates with 51% studios advising them on how best to design habitats for urban birds.
Come along on Sunday to hear from Peter.
The walk takes place this Sunday 20th May. We meet at 7.30am (yes, early bird and so on!) at the Shard. Please email lamis.bayar@afhuk.org for details of the exact meeting spot or keep an eye on our website and social media feeds. For further event details please click here.
The Urban Birds Walk, Sunday 20th May, Bankside
51% Studios, Peter Holden MBE and Architecture for Humanity London are delighted to invite you to the launch event of their Urban Birds Monitoring project.
51% studios’ Nestworks are assisted readymades for the Birds of Bankside in the guise of blocks, boughs and bushes. Using the urban fabric as its canvas, Nestworks is a site-specific project commissioned by the Architecture Foundation to provide nesting habitats for the birds we share our cities with – including Starlings and London’s House Sparrows which are alarmingly in decline.
The monitoring the project will allow us are to gain a better understanding of the manner in which the Nestworks and the green spaces adjacent to them are being used, and to make this information available publicly to other organizations engaged in monitoring wildlife in London. With your help, using citizen-science methodologies, Nestworks can continue to be both a public project and a people’s project.
To launch the monitoring project, eminent ornithologist Peter Holden and Cathi du Toit of 51% studios fame have very kindly agreed to take all interested on a tour of the Nestwork sites! They will tell us about the project itself and help us gain an understanding of the city as habitat for urban birds as well as an insight into the methods and benefits of citizen science.
The walk takes place this Sunday 20th May. We meet at 7.30am (yes, early bird and so on!) at the Shard. Please email lamis.bayar@afhuk.org for details of the exact meeting spot or keep an eye on our website and social media feeds.
Thank you all for coming to see us at the show IDEAS ON A POSTCARD, PLEASE.
The show is now over but you can still find out what Architecture for Humanity London do here. You can still buy our event cotton bag to support the activities, please send us an email on info@afhuk.org to find out.
51% studios, Peter Holden MBE and Architecture for Humanity London are pleased to announce:
Urban Birds: a call for Public Participation
51% studios’ Nestworks are assisted readymades for the Birds of Bankside in the guise of blocks, boughs and bushes. Using the urban fabric as its canvas, Nestworks is a site-specific project commissioned by the Architecture Foundation to provide nesting habitats for the birds we share our cities with – including Starlings and London’s House Sparrows which are alarmingly in decline. With your help, using citizen-science methodologies*, Nestworks can continue to be both a public project and a people’s project.
We are looking for volunteers to monitor a box and its environs for 20 minutes 1-3 times a week from 15 May - 15 June. The project will kick off with a guided walk through the area by ornithologist Peter Holden MBE and Catherine du Toit of 51% studios Architecture.
The project will allow us are to gain a better understanding of the manner in which the Nestworks and the green spaces adjacent to them are being used, and to make this information available publicly to other organizations engaged in monitoring wildlife in London. Volunteers will gain an understanding of the city as habitat for urban birds and an insight into the methods and benefits of citizen science. Findings will be published on our website.
* Citizen science is scientific research conducted, in whole or in part, by amateur or nonprofessional scientists. Citizen science is sometimes called “public participation in scientific research.” Citizen scientists can help gather data that will be analyzed by professional researchers. The RSPB Big Garden Watch is a good example. Citizen scientists can also contribute to the analysis as part of a wider community made up of a a mixture of professionals and non professionals.
To find out more come along to 51% studios talk tomorrow at 18.30, 54 Rivington Street.
Come along to our Urban Animals talk tomorrow evening and become part of our Citizen Science project
All will be revealed on Wednesday!
Read up on Urban Habitats and Ideas on a Postcard Please in the Telegraph
www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/beekeeping/9239427/Building-homes-for-Londons-wildlife.html
To see the Habi Sabi project come to our Ideas on a Postcard Please Exhibition
And to hear more about it from 51% Studios, join us at their talk, Wed at 1830.
Cathi du Toit and Peter Thomas will be speaking at #ideasonapostcard on Wed evening
