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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!

Check #dbf21 winners
During the seventh edition of the festival, both the legendary contests and some new ones were held. Specifically, a total of seven contests have been held, of which 5 we already know the winners. DBF Opina contest will extend your participation until September 30 in order to be able to know your opinion about the...
Agbar, one more year with Dbf
In the context of the Ebro Delta, AGBAR is a particularly well-established company, since it manages, through Aquambiente, the Illa de Mar and Goleró purification wetlands, two spots that in recent years have become key points of pilgrimage for all fans of bird watching. AGBAR, one more year, has collaborated in the festival, supporting the...
Lynx ID challenge contest: pelagic birds of the great oceans
This year we start a new way of the classic bird identification contest sponsored by the prestigious publisher LYNX Edicions, the LYNX ID CHALLENGE. Taking advantage of the participation of Rafa Armada, who will present us an extraordinary lecture on his oceanic voyages in search of pelagic birds, we have prepared with his collaboration, a new challenge...
The three great routes to see pelagics birds
In the world there are more than 400 species of birds that can be classified as marine and of these, a part are eminently pelagic: albatrosses, shearwaters, petrels and storm-petrels and it is in the Atlantic, Pacific and Antarctic oceans where they are more abundant. Since a few years ago, ornithologists especially interested in this...
The cursa Ornitho Swarovski Optik is back
In the same way as in previous editions, but with a somewhat shorter period to enter data, the Cursa Ornitho-Swarovski is back. To participate and have the chance to win a pair of binoculars Swarovski OptikEL 10X42 valued at more than € 2000 and donated by Esteller, you only need to send complete lists to ornitho.cat between July 25 and September 25, 2021. To be...
“Extinct in nature”, the new exhibition of Àlex Mascarell and Barcelona Zoo
The Barcelona Zoo, one of the most important sponsors of the festival, has prepared a very attractive exhibition that explains one of the primary objectives that zoos around the world have or should have, their effective involvement in the conservation of global biodiversity . Regarding fauna, there are critically endangered species that need urgent action...
The Barcelona’s Zoo supports DBF once again
For the fifth consecutive year, the Barcelona Zoo is involved in the Delta Birding Festival, offering financial support and providing quality content. On the one hand, we will be approached by the exhibition “Extinct in nature: a story of a failure of humanity”, a collection of illustrations by Àlex Mascarell where we can see a collection...
DBF Photo Contest is back!
One of the most anticipated contests of the festival is back, the DBF Photo Contest. One more year the photography of birds and wild nature takes center stage among the festival’s followers. Open to photographers, both amateurs and professionals, the contest search the best photo of birds in the wild. Attention because this year the...
Girbau Foundation, committed to the environment
The Girbau Private Foundation is a non-profit organization that provides support and financial assistance to social, cultural and environmental actions and projects. Among its objectives is to support actions and projects that value respect for nature and sustainable development. In 2021, the Girbau Foundation wanted to support the DBF, considering it an event that aims...
Birds of the World, an amazing online project
Birds of the world is a pharaonic online project that offers the most comprehensive and accurate information on all bird species in the world. It was born from the merger of the content of the monumental work Handbook of Birds of the World and the online platform Internet Bird Collection (Lynx Edicions) with the platforms Birds of North America and Neotropical Birds (Cornell Lab of Ornitology),...
Photolympus, a workshop to live the photography!
If you like to take photos of birds but you also have always the camera already to take an incredible photo of a sunset or butterfly that has stopped in front of you … do not miss the Photolympus workshop, this year. En In this edition of the festival, you can enjoy this workshop accompanied...
Agents rurals and Cori Calero will give back to nature recovered birds
The release of recovered birds by agentes rurales and technicians of the natural park has already become a classic of the festival. So another year, children and adults will be able to see up close wild birds that once suffered some trauma that made it impossible for them to live in freedom. And thanks to...