The 2025 WMBD poster for “Shared Spaces: Creating Bird-friendly Cities and Communities” features a variety of birds from the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.

May is a busy time for birders and birding events, with one of the foremost annual conservation activities being World Migratory Bird Day, celebrating “Shared Spaces: Creating Bird-friendly Cities and Communities.” With a variety of activities planned worldwide on Saturday May 10th, this year’s World Migratory Bird Day campaign encourages action from everyone, including national and local governments, businesses, community groups, and individuals worldwide. In addition, a variety of WMBD events are planned for May 10th in North America and around the world to celebrate spring migration.

The campaign will highlight the need for a healthy co-existence between people, governments, and birds through its theme “creating bird-friendly cities and communities.” The focus is on creating, managing, and adapting areas that support migratory bird populations, ranging from bustling cities to smaller towns and communities where there are actions everyone can take to protect our shared spaces with wildlife. Sometimes it’s a matter of people joining together, one yard, one neighborhood, and one community at a time, and growing from there. In other examples, efforts begin at the city level to encourage neighborhoods to join together toward common goals of providing bird habitat and safeguarding birds through window and lighting awareness.

World Migratory Bird Day will also raise interest levels about the many challenges migratory birds face and advocate for strategic urban planning and conservation efforts that incorporate bird-friendly practices, making sure that our communities become havens for the remarkable migrating birds. Actually, World Migratory Bird Day is every day! Learn more at Home - World Migratory Bird Day

In the United States and Canada, Environment for the Americas, centered in Boulder, Colorado is the cooperating leader for World Migratory Bird Day, and you can learn more about the variety of associates involved, including government agencies and conservation groups, and you can order a poster, T-shirt, stickers, children’s books, and more at World Migratory Bird Day 2025 – Environment for the Americas (environmentamericas.org)