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Newsletter / Blog 2011-07-24 A visit to the Nagoya City Wild Bird Observation Center - Well worth it. The Nagoya City Wild Bird Observation Center is a two storey facility and has an observation deck on each floor equipped with telescopes to view the many birds in the huge estuary created by the Shonaigawa, Shinkawa and Nikkogawa rivers as they enter the sea. Entrance is free. During spring and autumn thousands of migatory shorebirds rest and feed in the area, which is protected under the 1971 Ramsar Convention on wetlands.The area known as Fujimae Higata is a vast natural wetland situated within the larger urban area of Nagoya city and is now designated a Special Protection Area by the Japanese Ministry of Environment. Among the thousands of birds that can be seen at some time during the year are plovers, osprey, harriers, gulls, sandpipers, herons, curlews, snipe, egrets, cormorants and many species of ducks. Adjacent to the Nagoya City Wild Bird Observation Center is the Inae Visitor Center, also free entrance, which has many exhibits to introduce visitors, especially children, to the wildlife inhabiting these amazing wetlands. |
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