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Annually on the 1-st of April, the entire world celebrates the International Bird Day - an ecological holiday, which is devoted to propagation of ideas, brings up the people in the decision of the problems connected with disappearance of many kinds of avifauna in the Earth.
Birds live in all the continents and islands of the Globe. They are most colourful and sweet-voiced among all the vertebrates. Ability to fly makes birds the inhabitants without borders. There is about 9 thousand birds in the world now.
The International Bird Day has arisen in Oil-City of the USA in 1894; it was spread and became popular thanks to mass media, has involved all the states, then has reached Europe, now it is celebrated in many countries of the world.
In Turkmenistan protection and the International Bird Day are connected with the organization in 1968 of the Turkmen society of nature preservation, which was led by the known ornithologist in the world – Turkmen academician A.G.Rustamov, who was a member of the commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). He has supported and promulgated in Turkmenistan an idea of UNESCO on celebrating of Bird Day and has suggested celebration of this day on the 1-st of April in our country as well.
Bird Day like a giant refreshed in Turkmenistan since 2004 on the initiative of members of Turkmen branch of the Menzbirov ornithological society and at the support of the Royal society of birds protection of the Great Britain. Then in Turkmenbashy city there was founded club of bird fans.
To the International Bird Day, on the 1-st of April 2022 the State museum of the State cultural centre of Turkmenistan has organized an exhibition named «Diversity of birds in nature». Various kinds of birds that can be met in the territory of Turkmenistan are presented at the exhibition in the form of stuffed animals, souvenirs, represented on pictures, photos and carpets. Here will be exposed eggs of such birds, as emperor penguin, cassowary, ostrich and Australian emu. At the exhibition is possible to acquaint the science and popular science literature about birds, and to see portraits of ornithologists of our country.