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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!

30 years of monitoring seabirds and migratory birds at La Punta de Cap de Creus (conference in catalan)
La Punta de Cap de Creus, the Iberian Peninsula most eastern tip, is a privileged place to monitor bird migration and at the same time to observe seabirds in general. In the 1978, 1989 and 1990 years, three weekly spring control campaigns were carried out, but since 1993 censuses were carried out more systematically. Over...
The Great Green Wall impact on Senegal biodiversity (conference in spanish)
Papa Ibnou Ndiaye is a doctor in the Department of Animal Biology of the Faculty of Sciences and Technologies of the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakkar, Senegal, as well as a Hommes-Milieux Téssékéré Observatory member. In his talk, he will develop the Great Green Wall project, a flagship initiative in Africa to help combat...
Europe’s Birds – the making of an identification guide (conference in english)
The well-known writer and ecologist Andy Swash, author of great bestsellers for ornithologists such as Britain’s Birds or The World’s Rarest Birds will fly this September from Devon, UK, to present his new bird identification guide Europe’s Birds. Andy is a complete naturalist with special knowledge of birds and dragonflies, professional wildlife photographer and also,...
Foto Ruano Pro premieres as a #dbf23 sponsor
We boost up the Delta Birding Festival 9th Edition coordination with the Foto Ruano Pro collaboration, which is making its debut as a sponsor. As a photography equipment store with exceptional technical service and direct advice from two great camera experts, Foto Ruano Pro will carry out the organisation of the Delta Photo Contest, as well as the communication...
Photo Logistics joins the organization of #dbf23
In this edition, we welcome Photo Logistics to the DBF team, joining as an associate organiser. As the most active and professional wildlife photographic hides company in Catalonia and one of the most recognized in Spain, it will be in charge of the Delta Photo Contest coordination. In addition, due to its experience in ornithological events,...
#dbf22 conferences, online available!
Conferences by internationally and nationally renowned experts are one of the highlights of the Delta Birding Festival program. In this edition and as a novelty, you will have them available online on our website to consult them and see them again. In this way, you will have access to view this year’s conferences with such...
#dbf22 best moments
Now, you can enjoy the best moments of #dbf22 whether you were able to attend the festival or not. Professional photographers have been in charge of capturing the best images during the festival. You can relive all these good moments in our photo gallery. You will find pictures of the conferences, the workshops and guided...
#dbf22, a successful edition
This eighth edition has undoubtedly been the edition where the maximum number of attendees at the festival has been reached with more than 3000 people during the three days. And the fact is that the Delta Birding Festival has become the event of reference among bird and nature lovers. This year, visitors enjoyed more than...
The festival’s program…online!
One of our goals is to care for the environment. As a festival we are committed to nature in every sense, from allocating the profits to a conservation project to sustainable measures such the use of sustainable materials, and this year the reduction of paper use. As a novelty, you will find that the traditional...
Observatory of the Natural Heritage and Biodiversity of Catalonia at #dbf22
At the end of 2020, the Department of Territory and Sustainability of the Generalitat de Catalunya and the country’s biodiversity reference centres published the report on the State of Nature in Catalonia 2020. The report explains to us in little more than 100 pages what is the state of conservation of our nature, and the...
Ponç Feliu. The exponent of Green Birding in Catalonia
Ponç Feliu Latorre, from Girona, today director of the Cap de Creus Natural Park, gained prominence in some general media as a result of his ECO Big year or Green Big Year in 2013, in which he managed to spot a total of 304 species of birds in Catalonia. While a “standard” Big Year consists...
Ornitographiess, the flight of the birds like you never seen it
Ornithographiess show us for the first time the beauty of a bird flight as we have never seen it before. Thanks to showing several seconds in a single image, the silhouette of the bird in the sky is blurred to give rise to inspiring organic forms that can remind us of other structures or phenomena...