On 1 February BirdLife International and its European partners launched the Spring Alive event for 2008. Children from 30 countries around Europe are invited to record their first personal observation of four bird species, with a view to watching the progress of spring across Europe.

Spring Alive is a project that is co-sponsored by AEWA and organised by the Polish BirdLife International Partner OTOP (Polish Society for the Protection of Birds). Its core component is an interactive website, which gives children and families the possibility to record the arrival of migratory bird species. Last year Spring Alive collected over 16 000 observations. Due to the results it was shown that spring was slightly earlier in 2007 than in 2006. Experts think that the changes of bird migration habitats are caused by climate change.

For more information please visit: http://www.springalive.net/