Abstract: This paper reviews the development of bird watching activities, and summarizes that bird watching activities mainly include five aspects: appearance characteristics, living habits, habitat environment, bird culture, and ecological value.Bird watching sites can be divided into two types: outdoor and indoor. The forms of bird watching activities include natural observation, environmental interpretation, research courses, artistic creation, and management and rescue. The contents,characteristics, and focus of planning and planning of each type of activity are summarized. Bird watching facilities include tourist center, observation building, science popularization building and interpretation facilities, and analyzes the functions, site selection, internal devices and other key points of each type of building and facilities, and gives examples to provide theoretical basis and reference for the planning of bird watching activities in wetland parks and the construction of bird watching facilities.