The 3rd NTT World Bird Count has started

[David McDonald <>]

The Third NTT World Bird Count started yesterday (1 Oct). The 1996 count
was a geat success, as follows:
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At the second "NTT World Bird Count" held in 1996, we received birding
reports from more than 80,000 people in 81 countries and regions. The
total number of species compiled from the reports reached as many as
5,317 species, exceeding by far the results of the 1st "NTT World Bird
Count" in 1995.  Based on this number NTT donated \1,000 per species, a
total of 5,317,000 Yen to BirdLife International to be used for its
nature conservation activities in Asia.
endquote

Visit http://www.wnn.or.jp/wnn-n/w-bird/english/index.html for details
of the 1996 and 1997 counts.

David
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