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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!

Ricard Gutiérrez – Let’s recover the 3 endangered anatids and the red-knobbed coot. Mission Impossible?
Ricard Gutiérrez is head of Generalitat de Catalunya Wildlife Conservation Section of the Fauna and Flora Service, he was director of the Delta del Llobregat Natural Reserves between 1990 and 2005 and has directed the network of protected natural areas, in aside from working on coastal and marine biodiversity. The inaugural conference of the Delta...
Rafael Armada, Alejandra Rendón, Ricard Gutiérrez and Mariano Cebolla – PORTFOLIO 1- PHOTOGRAPHS AND STORIES OF EXTRAORDINARY BIRDS by Rafael Armada Book Presentation
This work is Rafael Armada’s first book and has been shaped by more than thirty years dedicated to birdwatching and photography, offering a glimpse into a rarely told natural world, a visual journey to some places on Earth you may never have heard of before. Through Armada’s lens, explore the farthest corners of the globe,...
Screening of the URPA documentary
After the premiere in cinemas this first quarter of 2024 of Urpa, thanks in part to the help provided by the sale of tickets for the last edition of the Delta Birding Festival, we will screen the documentary that gave its name to the conservation project of 2023, in Marquee 1. The documentary “URPA, a...
Nils Van Duivendijk, Marcel Gil, James Lidster and Marc Guyt – Open conversation in English between authors and translators of the book Aves de Europa: Identificación de todas las especies y plumajes
Nils, Marcel, James and Marc are ornithologists and have all collaborated in the publication of the ID Handbook of European Birds (Aves de Europa: Identificación de todas las especies y plumajes). Nils Van Duivendijk is the main author of the guide written in Dutch, Marcel Gil has revised the Spanish translation, James Lidster the English...
Marcel Gil and Guillermo Rodríguez – Waders’ identification
Marcel Gil is an ornithologist and expert ringer with experience in migration campaigns, both in Catalonia and at the Falsterbo Observatory, Sweden, and Guillermo Rodríguez, is an ornithologist specialized in coastal birds and birds of prey. In recent years, the detailed study of wading birds has allowed us to understand their migratory routes at the...
Marcel Gil – Rarities’ Sociology: ego, science or fun?
Marcel Gil works as an ornithologist specializing in seabirds and is a member and editor of the SEO/Birdlife Rarities’ Comittee and scretary of the Catalonia Avifaunistic Committee. Rare birds have always attracted the attention of a significant part of the ornithological community, but the profile of people who seek rarities and their motivations are diverse...
Adrián Ordieres and Naia Pascual – Deconstructed images. Nature photography masterclass
Adrián Ordieres and Naia Pascual are two nature and wildlife photographers from Asturias, ambassadors of the OM-System brand. Throughout this talk, we will discover some of the photographs we have taken in recent years. We will show each step of the process, from camera settings to tricks used in the field. We will explore images...
Taïme Smit, Laura Sánchez and Carlota Bruna – Acción Oceános
Taïme Smit, Laura Sánchez and Carlota Bruna are the Acción Océanos’ founders. Taïme is a marine biologist and conservationist, Laura Sánchez is a biologist on board of the Sea Shepherd ships and Carlota is a sustainability activist with a life linked to the sea. Acción Océanos is an organisation founded and run by women, whose...
Pipe Nebreda, Nacho Sevilla and Naia Pascual – PIO ÁVILA
The PIO project (Points of Ornithological Interest) aims to identify, signpost, describe and promote places where you can enjoy bird watching. In a balanced way throughout the province of Ávila, up to 50 PIOs are being signaled, which will also serve to promote the territory. For each of the PIOs there is a description of...
Jan Van Gils – Arctic warming felt by the Knot even in the Tropics
Jan van Gils is appointed as honorary professor of Global Change Ecology of Migrant Shorebirds at the University of Groningen. As an ecologist, Van Gils (NIOZ and UG) investigates shorebirds, with a particular focus on the red knot, which breeds in the Arctic and migrates through the Netherlands to its winter quarters in West Africa. The world...
Carles Santana – PAINT AND PHOTOGRAPH SPAIN’S NATURE. A project of tourism excellence within the framework of the “Plan for Modernization and Competitiveness of the Tourism Sector”
Wildlife observation assisted with specialized guides and even with specific infrastructures such as hides, observation screens or others has become a regular tourist activity in our country. Foreign visitors and local public demand these services. And in order to achieve excellence, a group of companies in the sector representing various tourist destinations throughout the state...
Seán Ronayne – Every Song: my journey to record all of Ireland’s birds
Seán Ronayne is an ornithologist, wildlife sound recordist, and environmental activist hailing from Cork, Ireland. With degrees in Zoology, Marine Biology, and Ecological Impact Assessment from University College Cork (UCC), Seán’s lifelong passion for nature was instilled by his parents and flourished into a professional career studying birds and their vocalisations. In Barcelona, Seán embraced a...