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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!

L’Ovella Verda live podcast with special guest Ponç Feliu (talk in catalan)
Andrea and Marta, creators of the L’Ovella Verda podcast, will be at the Delta Birding Festival broadcasting their program live. They will open their fourth season by interviewing one of our speakers, Ponç Feliu, biologist, environmentalist and director of the Cap de Creus Natural Park. We will be able to find out what problems and...
“Red Natural de Aragón. El latido de un territorio.” documentary presentation (conference in catalan)
Aragon has an enormous natural heritage, with a great diversity of habitats. In this space, an audiovisual from the Natural Network of Aragon called El latido de un territorio will be presented, which reviews Aragon’s biogeography through the protected natural areas network, the Natural Network of Aragon. Instead of showing each place, the video has...
Ornitho.cat: a powerful tool for biodiversity conservation (conference in catalan)
Ornitho is the portal that collects the most data, both on birds and many other taxonomic groups, at a continental level. In Catalonia, since ICO launched its Catalan version nearly 15 years ago, Ornitho.cat, more than 9 million observations have already been collected. Beyond the huge volume of data generated by this portal, the most...
The Embut and Illa de Mar: two purification wetlands full of birdlife
The Embut Wetland and the Illa de Mar Wetland are two purification wetlands in the Ebro Delta built by ACUAMED (Ministry for Ecological Transition) and managed by AQUAMBIENTE (AGBAR group) that have become, since its formation in 2013, privileged places for the migration and nesting of a large number of birds, coming to identify more...
20 fantastic birds you should try to see (conference in English)
Dominic Couzens is a bird and wildlife writer who has contributed to a large number of magazines such as BBC Wildlife and the RSPB’s Birds. He is also the author of a good number of books such as “The Secret Lives of Garden Birds”, “Extreme Birds”, or the useful identification guide “Birds ID Insights. Identifying...
La Ràpita debuts as a sponsor of DBF23
In this new Delta Birding Festival edition, we will have a new collaborator: La Ràpita. La Ràpita, for centuries officially called Sant Carles de la Ràpita, is a municipality in Catalonia located in the region of Montsià. If you are looking for the quiet of rural tourism, if you need the adrenaline of nautical activities,...
Emblematic birds of Aragon and the recent discovery of the Eurasian pigmy owl in the region (conference in spanish)
With an extension of 47,700 km² in the central part of the Ebro Valley, the Autonomous Community of Aragon encompasses three large natural units, the Pyrenees to the North with all its orographic complexity and altitudes above 3,000 meters, the Ebro Depression in the central part of the valley with its steppes and cereal plains...
The Quest for Cats in the Jungle of Guatemala (conference in english)
In this presentation belgian Master European Photographer Martin Steenhaut will talk about his photographic work with big felines in the Jungle of Guatemala. Martin Steenhaut is a passionate wildlife photographer who wants to show the beauty and fragility of our nature with strong moments and unique looks. He has been recognized as a professional photographer by the...
Artificial Intelligence applied to photography (conference in catalan)
We are currently in an the technologies Renaissance era, where much of the tools we used to find on the internet and in the integrated applications of our computers are being replaced by Artificial Intelligence (AI). Everything we knew until now has taken a step further and evolved to become a viral technological phenomenon of...
How to protect a ghost? In search of the Baillon’s crake in Catalonia (conference in catalan)
Due to its very discreet behavior, the Baillon’s crake (Porzana pusilla) is one of the most unknown species of European avifauna. Even its distribution often goes unnoticed, which makes it difficult to take measures for its conservation in the places where it nests. A few years ago, prospecting began to be carried out to look...
Study of the evolution of nesting birds in the Rials Valley (Alella) and Teià (conference in catalan)
Nil Redon is a 17-year-old young man who has finished his first year of high school. He is a boy passionate about photography and ornithology who participates in the Maresme Nesting Bird Atlas and SOCC. In his presentation, he will explain how and why the population of nesting birds in the Vall de Rials has...
Photography in the Sierra de Grazalema (conference in spanish)
Ismael Domínguez is a young photographer from Ubrique, in the province of Cádiz, who, at just 15 years old, has already accumulated well-known photography awards such as the Young “Bird Photographer of the Year” or the Young 12-14 “Wildlife Photographer of the Year” or the Honorable Mention “Maria Luisa Memorial”. Ismael has always been passionate...