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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!

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...
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...