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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!

Citizen science at dbf22
Citizen science is a method of obtaining scientific data that is based on the participation of amateur scientists, who by participating in different projects share information that is used to provide direct answers to conservation problems. This fact allows civil society to be decisive when developing biodiversity conservation policies. Without going any further, in December...
New equipment, new photographer
Nature photography, and especially of birds and wild animals, is experiencing a new technological revolution: the ability of the latest models of the leading brands to detect the eye of the bird or animal and follow it within the frame, keeping the point focus on it. This has made it so much easier to get...
From the mountains and deserts of Iran to the rainforests of Panama
At the #dbf22, we really enjoy the presentations by wildlife photographers who bring us closer to distant habitats that are very different from those around us. This year we will enjoy twice, and we could almost say that at opposite poles since from the mountains and deserts of Iran to the tropical forests of Panama...
Eurasian African Bird Migration Atlas, an online tool to check migratory birds during their journeys
The Eurasian African Bird Migration Atlas is an online tool, coordinated by the European Union for Bird Ringing (EURING), that provides information on the movement of 300 species of migratory birds during their journeys between Eurasia and the African continent. This atlas has two peculiarities that make it particularly exceptional: the first is that the...
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,...