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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!

Nature illustrators adventures
David Sibley is a renowned American illustrator, specialized in drawing birds and author, among others, of the famous guide ‘The Sibley guide to Birds’ which covers more than 900 species, as well as its little siblings ‘The Sibley field guide to birds of Western North America’ and ‘The Sibley field guide to birds of Eastern...
Stress in birds
In recent years, outdoor sports activities, such as trail running, cross-country skiing or paddle surfing, have experienced an unprecedented growth. Since we live in a very densely populated country, these activities mean that there are people everywhere, even in the most remote corners of the territory, which generates numerous chance encounters with wildlife. But do...
How do birds that inhabit colder environments respond to the global warming?
Climate change is altering all of the earth’s ecosystems, practically without exception, but we tend to focus more on those that will suffer extremely high temperatures due to this change than on temperate or cold ecosystems, leaving aside glaciers and poles that warn us a lot as well. Thus, it is also necessary to study...
Moult curiosities
In 1994 Lukas Jenni, a researcher at the Swiss Ornithological Institute, together with Raffael Winkler, published a book called ‘Moult and ageing of European Passerines’ which quickly became a reference work especially for ringers, but also for any serious ornithologist interested to learn in detail how European passerines moult. Probably because the initial printing of...
#dbf22 workshops
For this edition, the DBF has programmed several workshops distributed between marquee 2 and the classroom of the building-viewpoint. Without a doubt, it is worth mentioning the conference-workshop that Raffael Winkler will give, in which he will talk to us about the relationship between breathing and the bones of birds. In addition, it will teach...
Iberian lynx in Catalonia, utopia or close reality?
A few years ago we had the surprise that an Iberian lynx released at the other side of the Iberian Peninsula was able to cross it and come to roam in the Baix Llobregat region, among large infrastructures, but well fed by the abundance of rabbits that were in the area. Obviously, this spontaneous colonization...
A high flying dictionary
There is a well-known phrase by the French philosopher George Steiner that says: ‘what cannot be named, does not exist’ and that was precisely what Raül Aymí, Rafel Cebrian († 2021), Jordi Clavell, Manuel-Enric Giménez and Àlex Mascarell might have thought when in 2012, all of them coming from different areas of knowledge of nature,...
The journey of birds
Eloïsa Matheu has created, for this edition of the Delta Birding Festival, some beautiful soundscapes that aim to cover the migration of birds from their Scandinavian breeding quarters, through the mountain passes of the Pyrenees, to the stopover areas in wetlands of the Catalan coast, until finally reaching the Bank d’Arguin on the Mauritanian coast,...
Citizen science and weather radars to study bird migration
Nadja Weisshaupt currently works at the Finnish Meteorological Institute and is specialized in the study of large-scale animal movement, including birds, insects and bats, through weather radar. Thanks to the network operation of 70 of these radars, unprecedented data on aerofauna can be obtained, both at a regional and continental level. Although the use of...
At DBF Junior, we give voice to the future!
One of the most stimulating novelties that will be presented at the 2022 Delta Birding Festival is the creation of the DBF Junior, a space in which the new generations of birders will be able to present their vision of this world and explain their projects. For this edition we have looked for people who...
Embut and IIla de Mar, two wetlands full of life
The Embut and Illa de Mar wetlands are two purification wetlands in the Ebro Delta built by ACUAMED (Ministry for Ecological Transition) and managed by AQUAMBIENTE (AGBAR), which have become, since their formation, privileged spaces for migration and nesting of many birds, making it possible to enjoy more than 150 different species in recent years....
The creations of new pilgrimage site
It is well known that the formation of a river delta depends on the sediments that the river to which it belongs drags along its entire length. In the case of la Tordera, despite the fact that it does not have any reservoir to retain these sediments, there is an intense activity of extracting aggregates,...