Festival participants learn about birds and radars through interactive games

Researchers of the University of Amsterdam organized a series of games at the “Op De Ring” festival, teaching participants about birds and radars.

• Bart Kranstauber

Image by Bart Hoekstra
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The city of Amsterdam celibrated its 750th birthday on June 21st with the Op De Ring festival. One of its highways was closed for the occasion. Students, teachers and researchers of several organizations showed participants how they are working together to build a liveable future for the city.

Researchers from the University of Amsterdam animal movement ecology group presented the “Grote Amsterdamse Vogel Spel” (the Big Amsterdam Bird Game): five interactive games about birds. In these games hunderds of participants learned about bird migration, foraging strategies, and how radars are used to study the responses of birds to wind turbines and fireworks.