In partnership with BirdLife International, Bird Conservation Nepal (BCN) has started celebrating Welcome to the Birds event since January 2014 in Nepal in order to do advocacy and awareness raising at a key sites or for key species by reaching out to various audiences like school students, general public, government officials, etc.

BCN organized "Welcome to the Birds" event at Phulchowki IBA on 14 February 2015.  Altogether 75 participants including BCN members, journalist and students attended the event. A talk on importance of the Welcome to the Birds event and bird migration in Nepal was given to the participants. The most interesting part of the event was the Bird Race. The participants were divided into four teams A, B, C and D and each team was led by a bird expert. A total of 63 species were recorded during the race with the highest recorded by Team "D" (53 species) followed by team "B" (41 species), team "A" (38 species) and team "C" (30 species). The winning teams were awarded with prizes.

The programme this year was also celebrated at various Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs) like  Ghodaghodi Lake IBA, Jagdispur IBA, Bardia National Park IBA by organizing winter bird count, bird race, etc.