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Do you want to be up to date with the news of the tenth edition of the Delta Birding Festival? Here you can find new information about presentations, exhibitions, documentaries and much more!

Pipe Nebreda, Nacho Sevilla and Naia Pascual – PIO ÁVILA
The PIO project (Points of Ornithological Interest) aims to identify, signpost, describe and promote places where you can enjoy bird watching. In a balanced way throughout the province of Ávila, up to 50 PIOs are being signaled, which will also serve to promote the territory. For each of the PIOs there is a description of...
Jan Van Gils – Arctic warming felt by the Knot even in the Tropics
Jan van Gils is appointed as honorary professor of Global Change Ecology of Migrant Shorebirds at the University of Groningen. As an ecologist, Van Gils (NIOZ and UG) investigates shorebirds, with a particular focus on the red knot, which breeds in the Arctic and migrates through the Netherlands to its winter quarters in West Africa. The world...
Carles Santana – PAINT AND PHOTOGRAPH SPAIN’S NATURE. A project of tourism excellence within the framework of the “Plan for Modernization and Competitiveness of the Tourism Sector”
Wildlife observation assisted with specialized guides and even with specific infrastructures such as hides, observation screens or others has become a regular tourist activity in our country. Foreign visitors and local public demand these services. And in order to achieve excellence, a group of companies in the sector representing various tourist destinations throughout the state...
Seán Ronayne – Every Song: my journey to record all of Ireland’s birds
Seán Ronayne is an ornithologist, wildlife sound recordist, and environmental activist hailing from Cork, Ireland. With degrees in Zoology, Marine Biology, and Ecological Impact Assessment from University College Cork (UCC), Seán’s lifelong passion for nature was instilled by his parents and flourished into a professional career studying birds and their vocalisations. In Barcelona, Seán embraced a...
Diego Moreno (DBF Junior) – A year in the life of the Iberian lynx
The fifth and last Junior of this edition of the Delta Birding Festival is Diego Moreno, a 16-year-old boy who is passionate about nature and who has showed interest in wildlife photography since some years. Currently, after completing his “excellence baccalaureate” he is carrying out a research project on the Iberian lynx. The project consists...
Marc Fusellas and Bernat Garrigós – SAM (Seabird Monitoring)
Marc Fusellas is an ICO environmental technician and works in the coordination team of the Common Bird Monitoring of Catalonia (SOCC), while Bernat Garrigós is a biologist and president of the Alive Foundation. In their conference, they will talk about SAM (Seabird Monitoring), a specific monitoring of seabirds that aims to fill the gap in...
Alberto Saiz and Víctor Ortega – Presentation and première of the documentary “A Year of Wild Love”
Alberto Saiz and Víctor Ortega are photographers and videographers who collaborate with Fujifilm and are passionate about nature and wildlife. In this tenth edition of the festival, they will present their documentary “A Year of Wild Love” for the first time. In the Natural World, reproduction is the drive that ensures life. In this documentary...
The Embut and Illa de Mar: two purification wetlands full of birdlife
The Embut Wetland and the Illa de Mar Wetland are two purification wetlands in the Ebro Delta built by ACUAMED (Ministry for Ecological Transition) and managed by AQUAMBIENTE (AGBAR group) that have become, since its formation in 2013, privileged places for the migration and nesting of a large number of birds, coming to identify more...
Carles Durà – European Solidarity Corps: setting up a biological station in Montseny
Carles Durà is a field biologist specialized in ornithology and conservation biology, who currently works as the director of the Montseny Biological Station, where, in addition to housing scientists doing studies in the Montseny: the project of volunteering of the European Solidarity Corps where international volunteers stay, located in Fontmartina. These international volunteers participate in...
The Besòs biodiversity refuge in Santa Coloma de Gramenet – Juli Mauri and Joan Mor
Juli Mauri and Joan Mor are the technicians of the Besòs River renaturalization project from 2022 and 2023, respectively. The recovery of the Besòs and its biodiversity is part of the Besòs river renaturation strategy to increase its resilience to face the impacts of climate change, and includes freeing the ecosystems from human pressure so...
Àlex Ollé and Joan Goy – Status change of the pallid harrier in western Europe. Implications in their identification and hybridizations.
Àlex Ollé and Joan Goy are passionate about birds of prey and their identification. Through photography, they have captured multiple images that they use to analyze the molts and date these wonderful birds. In this regard, they have just published a field guide: Ibéricas Diurnal Birds of Prey by Tundra publishing house. One of the...
Emma Guinart – The Kentish plover and the Sisyphus myth. Future strategies and lines of action
Emma Guinart is an environmentalist with a special interest in ecology and conservation biology, and also in the different methods of population estimation of some species. She is a founding member of the Pelagicus association and currently works at Natura Montfred, a company dedicated to the conservation of protected and threatened species in Catalonia. At...