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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!

Purifying wetlands: the hiding place for hundreds of birds
The Embut Wetland, and the Illa de Mar Wetland are two purifying wetlands of the Ebro Delta created by ACUAMED (Ministry of the Ecological Transition) and managed by AQUAMBIENTE (AGBAR) that have become, since they were created, in privileged spaces for the nesting of a great number of aquatic birds. As well as ducks, coots,...
The sounds of migration
Birds that migrate at night, under normal conditions, are rarely seen or heard, but on the other hand, they are much more numerous than those that do so during the day. For many years now, attempts have been made to quantify this migratory flow using techniques such as the Moonwatch, which consisted of observing the lunar disk...
The salt of life. Trinitat salt lakes’ stories.
In this edition of the Delta Birding Festival we are pleased to announce the premiere of the documentary ‘La sal de la Vida’, recorded by the well-known biologist and broadcaster, Jaume Sañé. Sañé highlights this necessary symbiosis between the interests of any extractive activity and the need to protect an area of such high ecological...
Visting Vilacoto
In the activity “Visting Vilacoto“, Sergi Sales from the Fundació Plegadis will guide us through the Vilacoto area, which is located next to the Encanyissada lagoon, in the municipality of San Carles de la Rápita. This area, which can rarely be visited, is home to one of the best delta populations of Iberian Reed Bunting...
Audouin’s gull and the axis Z conquest
The Audouin’s Gull (Larus audouinii) is an endemic species to the Mediterranean and listed as ‘vulnerable’ in the red book of birds of Spain. Traditionally nests on rocky islands and islets that provide protection against land predators. Ricard Gutiérrez, biologist of the Marine Fauna Rescue of the Generalitat de Catalunya, will talk about, in his conference at...
Micro-Reserves of Butterflies in Catalonia
In Catalonia for 28 years now, a systematic monitoring of diurnal butterfly populations has been carried out. In all these years, more than 180 species have been but around fifty of them have been found to have a negative or a very negative trend. To reverse this situation, the people of Paisatges Vius have started...
Fifty million years of passerine evolution
Per Alström is professor and researcher at the Department of Ecology and Genetics at Uppsala University and at the Institute of Zoology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His main research in ornithology is focused on the Systematics of Passerines through DNA analysis, vocalizations plus the examination of morphology that, in combination with ecological, distribution...
Delta Hot Spots!
To close a couple of days full of emotions and put into practice what we have learned in the conferences and workshops or perhaps to premiere what we have bought at the fair, there is no better option than to visit, in small groups, some selected places, within and outside the Delta, in the company...
“Lammergeier, the wind beards”, a wildlife film
“Lammergeier, the wind beards” is a short film about the wild life of this species, created by Manu Mateo of Indómada Studio and Tony Peral. The documentary shows real bearded vulture scenes never before recorded as the strength and determination of this species during a snowstorm. Authentic wonders of both, landscape and the king of...
Bat’s night
Despite the fact that still today, talking about bats is talking about beings surrounded by mystery and over which a kind of malignant or unhealthy aura hovers, the truth is that these small flying mammals play a key role in the biological balance of te habitats where they live, since they consume a huge amount...
Nocmig, the key to understand nocturnal migrations
The recording of nocturnal flight calls (NOCMIG or NFC) is a method of studying the migration of birds which consists of recording, using some type of electronic device, the calls emitted by birds while migrating at night. The fascinating thing about nocmig is that you don’t need to live anywhere near the coast, for example, to get...
Opean sea sailing to observe pelagic birds
One of the most attractive activities that can be done, not only in the festival, but also within the ornithological world in general, are the trips to the open sea to observe pelagic species. These outings allow us to see some birds up close that are otherwise very difficult to observe, since they normally live...