Elvia “La Rastreadora” – Birds that make us vibrate; sounds that tell stories (DBF Junior)

Elvia Gómez, better known as Elvia La Rastreadora (Elvia The Tracker), is a 12-year-old girl from Pamplona who fell in love with tracking thanks to trips to nature with her parents. In fact, his father, Fernando Gómez, will also be speaking about wildlife tracking in Africa at this Delta Birding Festival!

At just 12 years old, this year Elvia has published her first book in which she narrates 30 first-person experiences with animals throughout her childhood and which she herself illustrates as watercolors on cards with curiosities and keys on these animals or their tracks.

In general, we are not aware of the life around us. Elvia believes that she is, and that’s why she wants to share it like the rest through a talk where she shows us this wildlife, often discreet and elusive, which stars in the soundtrack of our everyday life. She will talk about the birds and their sounds, which accompany us from the moment we get up and open the window, on the way to school or work, or when we wait for the bus or take a walk in the countryside.

We will discover how this sound (which is a vibration) also makes us vibrate. What do they tell us and what stories do they tell us with melodies, alarm voices or even the sounds their wings make. From the vultures flying high in the sky to the elusive warblers, through the incredible vocalizations of the corvids and to the imitations between species.

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