Bird Conservation Nepal organised a National Workshop on 20 December 2010 at Hotel Ambassador, Lazimpat to discuss on draft report of State of Nepal's Birds 2010, an updated version of State of Nepal's Bird 2004. The workshop was highly remarkable due to the presence of most of the renowned ornithologists from all over the country along with Tim and Carol Inskipp who are best known for Nepalese Ornithology. Mr. Krishna Prasad Acharya, Director General of Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation was the Chief Guest of the programme.

Welcoming all the participants, Mr. Shree Ram Subedi, President of BCN said, "This timely publication of State of Nepal's Birds 2010 with enormous information will enable conservation measures to be implemented to prevent birds from becoming extinct in this country". He further claimed that it will help to aware the general public and policy makers on the real situation of Nepal's birds.

Chief Guest, Mr Krishna Prasad Acharya in his opening remark said "As we know that 133 bird species were already listed as nationally threatened in the previous document and I am sure that with the growing threats, more will be added in the list but our National Park and Wildlife Conservation Act 1973 only provides protection to 9 bird species. So it is a high time that we all should work together to include more bird species in our national priority". He also assured that DNPWC has seriously taken the recently recommended over 90 species of birds to be listed as protected.

The workshop included four main presentations. The first was by Tim Inskipp on IUCN threat categories followed by Carol Inskipp on changes in state of Nepal's birds from 2004 to 2010. Dr. Hem Sagar Baral provided very useful information on threats to the birds of Nepal. Likewise Dr. Hum Gurung, CEO of BCN highlighted some key responses to bird conservation in Nepal.

The workshop was very useful in receiving enormous feedbacks from the participants which will help to make the document as the most essential reference for bird studies, conservation work and policy development. BCN will try to incorporate all the experts' views at its level best and bring out the publication soon.