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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!

Workshops for the little ones and for the whole family!
As every year, the festival has prepared numerous workshops for the little ones and for the whole family … but always linked to naturalistic learning. For example, you can play the classic Ornithologist domino, “moixonejar” at Delta or make a curious estimaocells. But we also have some new activities like build an insect’s hotel, o create...
The best optics’ exhibition for birding, at the dbf!
Once again, you’ll enjoy an excellent exhibition of products and services for birders and nature lovers in general at Delta Birding Festival. It is particularly important that the trade show segment of binoculars, telescopes and complementary equipment that harbors all the main brands in the market. The exhibition is placed just beside La Tancada lagoon...
An essential support: volunteers
The Delta Birding Festival brings together more than 2000 fans of ornithology and naturalism every year in a unique festival in Catalonia. This festival is possible thanks to the efforts and selfless work of many people: the speakers, the excursion guides, the organizers of activities … but above all thanks to the volunteers. During the...
Banding birds on migration
Scientific bird banding is still a very useful method for studying some aspects of bird biology for which it would be very difficult to obtain data in any other way. In addition, this system allows you to observe the birds up close and in detail, which is the reason it has become an invaluable tool...
Everything in wildlife photography, at DBF!
Wildlife photography is also present at the festival. In the activities, conferences and also among the exhibitors. Next to the Tancada lagoon, you will find the stands of the leading brands of photography. A unique opportunity to test and compare the different models and also receive first hand the information that each brand offers to...
Come and discover birds at night
The Ebro delta is an optimal terrain to get to know a good part of the owls that live in Catalonia, since some of them are quite abundant here. With the help of the fantastic thermal cameras of our friends from Leica, we will go out with Iago Brugnoli, a member of the local association...
Birding and photography offshore
As is well known, pelagic birdwatching trips are a unique and extraordinary opportunity to observe some species, such as shearwaters, skuas, petrels or gannets, which are very difficult to see in any other situation. In addition, the fact of throwing fish to attract them makes it easier for the birds to get very close to...
DBF2021 Conservation Project: Binoculars for the Daasanach, the most birder tribe in Africa!
Delta Birding Festival always give support to a conservation project related to Birds.This year, for the first time in the short history of this festival, we will support a project that is taking place on another continent, specifically on the shores of Turkana lake, , in the northeast of Kenya, Africa where the Daasanach tribe...
If the sky turned red. Climate change, know it to combat it!
Nowadays, it could be said that humanity is suffering a certain confusion caused to realize closely the evidence of the planetary environmental crisis and still not be able to initiate the deep changes in our daily lives that we would have to do to try to straighten out the situation. About this crisis, without a...
Wildlife tracking in the Delta
Since time immemorial, human beings have used the tracks left by animals to locate them first, follow them later and finally hunt them. In the activity “Wildlife tracking in the Delta“, José Carlos de la Fuente will teach us everything about feathers, hair, footprints, excrement, pellets and any other detail that can give us clues...
Nature is the vaccine
Now that we are all still suffering the devastating effects of a pandemic that has meant paying a very high toll in terms of the number of lives that has been taken, but also the millions of euros that are being spending to fight it. Can we do something so that this does not happen...
The blue hour of Delta, a special moment to take photos
At the end of the day when it gets dark, the light becomes magical. We’ve all lived sunsets with the sky tinged with orange and yellow tones typical of the golden hour but latter what happens? Just before the sky becomes dark, it loses its orange hues to an intense blue color that is a...