By james art 
The Sylvan Heights Bird Park Scotland Nect-Person and others gathered on January 17th to hold their first World Water Bird Day while worshiping the co-founder of the late Mike Lyubbok and his contribution to a cardiac ceremony.
The event brought a crowd to the Toad Park Hall, an open pavilion, to tell Lubbock’s heritage and achievements. He died on September 7th.
Brent Lyubbok, Director of Mike’s Park and Son, welcomed everyone and noted about turnout.
“This is the first World Waterfall Day and it would not be possible if my father had not loved water birds so many years ago,” Brent told the audience. “And I just appreciate seeing so many beautiful faces in this room that went out to celebrate this. Four months ago, when he died, everyone asked if we would do something, and with life that he lived, it would not be something simple what we could do. And fortunately, the idea of doing something like the World Waterfish Day and four months later today is here to celebrate this as the first of our kind. “
Mike was born on January 17, 1944 and began his trip at 17 years in 1962, when he began breeding birds in the confidence of the wild and wetlands in Sllybridge, England, which was discovered by Peter Scott in 1946 as Waterfowl Sanctuary and The First of the Nine WWT Centers in the United Kingdom. From there, Mike came to Long Island, New York, in 1969 to take care of a collection of waterfowl and traveling abroad to work with different birds until he returned to Slimbrid He was confronted with an expedition to Botswana while in England. In 1982, he returned to the United States with his wife and son and eventually moved a collection of birds into the neck of Scotland in 1989. In 2006, they discovered Sylvan Heights Bird Park.
On April 30, Mike was awarded the most distinguished Order of the British Empire by a representative on behalf of the English King, King Charles III, in Silvan Heaths Park Park.
Brent said the park entered the national day, where there are 30 organizations around the world, participating in the celebration of waterfowl, which are ducks, geese and swans.
“So my father would be very pleased to understand that it made people pay attention to the waterfowl because we came from there,” he said.
Brent said that although his father was an ornithologist, he was also a community man and thought high about the city of Scotland.
Brent’s mother, Ali Lubbok, co -founder of the park, thanked everyone for attending.
“Everyone, it’s absolutely compelling,” Ali said. “I will not say a lot of words, but I just want to thank you for coming and you are here with us to celebrate World Water Birds and Mike’s Life, and it’s just fantastic to see so many of our children. One of them has already asked if their child can stand up with us next year. “
The clay shields of the Scottish Nick said he had lived in the city all his life, seeing how he passed through the peaks and low levels. However, Shields said Scotland Shike struck the lottery in 1989 when Mike, Ali and Brent moved to the city.
“I saw first -hand a man, a friend who was a firm and brilliant conservation of waterfowl around the world,” he told Mike. “Wherever I go, when I talk about Scotland’s neck, people invariably say,” I was in Sylvana Heights “or” I want to go. ” Enthusiasm as an urban citizen makes me proud. I say, “Yes, I know Mike and Ali. They are our good friends. They are the best people.
“My wife and I love him and we love Silvan Heights. It was exceptional, please go. Thank you, Mike, thank you for not only you are a brilliant crusader, farmer, innovator, but also thank you for being Mike Lubbok, a really great person, a warm, friendly, humorous and loyal, loved by all who They knew. “
Don Butler, chairman of the Board of Directors of Silvan Heaths, said it was a day of celebration and no one would attend the ceremony if it wasn’t for Mike and his family.
“We all knew Mike and loved him,” Butler said. “This is his dream come true. I have heard it say many times that for years his dream has been to have his own bird park. Now look around, this is the best in the world. This would not only happen to his efforts, although he was a driving force – Ali and Brent and the staff and all the others who had a hand in building this beautiful place. Mike’s heritage is certain and as long as you continue to return and as long as you continue to invite others to return and until your children return, not only Sylvan Heights flourish and flourish, but the waterfowl in the world will do so. Be better for that. “
Others who provided remarks and shared memories of Mike were the wildlife biologist Phil Staton of Massachusetts, James balances the zoo in Atlanta in Georgia, Brad Hazelton of Fort Worth Zoo in Texas, Chris Newton of the Disney Animal Kingdom in Florida, Nick Hill of Silvan Heights Breeding Center, Dustin Foote Who is the Director of Aviculture, President and Ceo Lori Medlin of the Halifax County Convention and Visitors Bureau, Private , International Wild Waterfowl Association and Aviculturist Ian Gereg Out of Pennsylvania, director Jacob Kramer from the Pinola Reserve outside Louisiana, the farmer Don Smith of New York, the member of the wild waterfowl Timothy Beard of Massachusetts and the private Avoculture Mark Frostrom outside Maryland.
Brent said that the stories that people share during the ceremony show the heritage his father created.
“And it’s a legacy in waterfowl,” he said. “Any of those people he has touched means that this mission and these goals with the conservation of waterfowl will continue and so we are lucky. You are all friends and family. Although Dad is gone, Sylvan Heaths is still here. “
Brent said that after Mike died, they had a bronze bust of his father, created by sculptor David Turner, who was discovered after the ceremony and was near the main park building, sharing the likeness known as “waterfowl man man “For everyone to see.