The Hong Kong Bird Watching Society (HKBWS) coordinates the territorial-wide bird surveys and recordings of nature sounds, which engages more than a hundred voluntary surveyors and covers various territorial habitats in Hong Kong. HKBWS also organizes a series of educational activities to promote appreciation and study of nature sounds in scientific or creative ways.
About：Found in 1957, HKBWS is concerned about the appreciation and protection of birds and their habitats and is one of the oldest membership-based nonprofit organizations in Hong Kong. HKBWS was approved as a charitable organization of a public character in 2002, and became a Partner of BirdLife International in 2013.
Vision：People and birds living in harmony as nature continues to thrive.
Mission：HKBWS promotes appreciation and protection of birds and their habitats through education, research, habitat management and conservation advocacy.
The Library has established a designated team to provide digital scholarship services that uses digital technologies to extend the life of scholarly sources and create research tools, with a view to facilitating information sharing and new research findings. Through collaborating with professors and researchers, the Library supports digitization with OCR, data visualization, GIS applications, corpus development, crowd-sourcing projects, e-journal publishing, among other areas. We hope to provide a stronger support for the University's vision of teaching and research, data analytic, and knowledge sharing.
The Division of Applied Science of the College of International Education (CIE), Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), takes part to establish the Hong Kong Wildtracks webpage and provide educational advice, as well as promote nature appreciation and biodiversity research in the community. The Division also encourages students to get involved in citizen science via various activities such as field trips, service learning and summer internship.
About：Established in 2000, the College of International Education is a self-funded unit of HKBU. CIE offers full-time Associate Degree and Undergraduate programmes. Being the pioneer institution to offer the Associate Degree programme in Hong Kong, CIE proudly shares HKBU's whole-person education mission to enable students to learn and grow through its general education curriculum and all-round developmental initiatives.
Vision：To be a leading liberal arts college in Hong Kong and the region delivering quality education in a caring and creative environment.
Mission：CIE is committed to quality education and to the development of the whole person with a global perspective based on the ethos of humanistic education.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all the birdwatchers, hikers, students and staff at CIE and Ho Koon, who voluntarily dedicate their time to conduct bird surveys across urban and rural, gentle and hilly terrain. We also appreciate the permission granted to access private premises and restricted area with the help including, but not limited to the following:
We would also like to express our great thanks to the following birdwatchers. They provide us with their precious recordings and photographs that make the database more fruitful: (names in alphabetical order)
