The RSPB will not rest until every last stoat has been eradicated from the face of Orkney

                                                        

The bird charity is determined to banish stoats from The Orkneys

THE RSPB is stepping up its efforts to exterminate the stoat population of Orkney.

It is recruiting for a 'biosecurity and conservation detection dog manager' to aid its campaign to hunt and destroy the non-native beasties.

The post runs until December 31 and carries a salary of £32,022 - £34,377 per annum.

What is the Kirkwall-based  role about? 

Says the job description: "Working closely with the eradication operations manager, the successful candidate will manage a conservation detection dog team to ensure the successful delivery of the eradication of stoats in Orkney, prevent their spread to small islands within Orkney and put in place biosecurity measures to prevent their return."

It continues: "He or she will ideally have practical experience in mustelid trapping and surveillance, and a good understanding of stoat biology and behaviour. 

"He or she will also be familiar with, and experienced in, the use of common island biosecurity surveillance tools and use of conservation detection dogs."

The charity says it aims to conduct interviews for this position from  June 10.

Any potential can obtain further information from Vicky Grant at vicky.grant@rspb.org.uk

* Photo: Keven Law/ Hello World/ Wikimedia Commons

The Wryneck says: We are uncomfortable about this initiative - at least until several issues have been addressed. Is the project ethical? Does it have the support of Orkney residents. Is it backed by the RSPB membership? How effective has it been in achieving its aims? What is likely to be the final cost? And is it money well spent? Answers to these questions would be more than welcome.

Leading property company keen to encourage nature to flourish at its offices blocks in London

             

Derwent's Featherstone Building in London - there are bee-friendly flowers on the rooftop 

ONE of Britain's largest property companies is doing its bit for nature and wildlife.

Derwent London plc has a portfolio of more than 60 office blocks, most of them located in central London.

For health and safety reasons, it is reluctant to incorporate water features into its development schemes, but it invariably seeks to create a green and leafy setting, sometimes with rooftop planting to encourage bees, butterflies and other pollinating insects.

At its annual meeting earlier this month, it emerged that the company is also planting native trees on land in its Scottish estate.

Quizzed by a shareholder, the reply came back:  "In 2015 and 2019, we planted approximately 100 acres of mixed woodland species  -  birch, sycamore, beech, holly, oak and willow and  others. 

"It is our intention to plant a further 100 acres of native species across the Scottish estate in 2025. 

"As part of each new woodland application or planning application, we undertake nesting bird surveys and habitat surveys. 

"In March this year, our 5.4-hectare meadow at Bargenny Hill, near Torrance in East Dunbartonshire was recognised as a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

"The meadow supports an orchid-rich mix of plant species, including the threatened Greater Butterfly Orchid, Northern Marsh Orchid and  a variety of other scarce grassland species."

One disappointment is that, as yet, Derwent London has not followed the lead of other developers, particularly housebuilders, in installing nestbricks for swifts.

However, this may change in future.

Says the company: "When we are doing external works, we get advice from ecologists and landscape architects as to the most appropriate planting to encourage wildlife and biodiversity, including the use of bird and/or bat boxes.

"In the meantime, we are currently exploring the installation of beehives, bug and solitary bee hotels in our portfolio

" All new build and major refurbishment projects are set a biodiversity net gain target. 

"For the rest of 2024, our target is for projects to deliver an improvement of last  15 per cent to the biodiversity value of each site."

Derwent London also supports the London Wildlife Trust at its Woodberry Wetlands Centre in Hackney, East London, where reedbed habitats are being restored.                                                       

Woodberry Wetlands - habitat for water rail, great crested grebe, green sandpiper and other water birds 

RSPB recruiting for "incredibly exciting" job in the Caribbean - but coy about what is involved

 

Blue waters, sunny skies and exotic birds - the lure of the Caribbean 

THE deadline is looming for applications for an RSPB job based in the Caribbean.

Anyone wishing to be considered will have to notify the charity by 11.59pm on Tuesday May 14.

Says the job description: "We are looking for an organised and effective communicator who will be responsible for driving forward an incredibly exciting collaborative, partnership-based project to protect nature and livelihoods in the Caribbean Overseas Territories."

So far, so good.

But some potential candidates for the post of Biosecurity Project Manager may be put off by the specifics - "implementing measures to minimise impacts from invasive non-native species."

The recruitment ad does not say as much, but the references to "biosecurity" and "invasive non-native native species" indicate that some degree of wildlife-killing may be involved as with the ongoing stoat-culling project closer to home in The Orkneys. 

The recruitment ad continues: "Biodiversity in the five Caribbean UK Overseas Territories  is globally significant and increasingly threatened by the impacts of invasive non-native species.

"We  are looking for  a significant and lasting improvement in biosecurity capacity and capability.

"This goal will be achieved  by strengthening biosecurity,

The salary is in the range £38,389 - £41,212 per annum, and the location is described as "flexible in the Caribbean or  Miami would be considered.

Anyone interested can contact charlie.butt@rspb.org.uk - but hurry!

                                 

The Caribbean Sea and its many islands

The Wryneck says: "The prospect of working in the Caribbean must be enticing for many a birder, but it is a shame that the RSPB is not more upfront about what is involved. Is culling involved - and, if so, to what extent? There is a strong case for such activity, but  the organisation should have offered greater clarity in the recruitment ad. What are the "invasive non-native species" and what is the nature of the "biosecurity" proposal?

* Pictures via Wikimedia Commons

Council's appeal to Cleethorpes watersports enthusiasts: please show a bit of respect for wildlife

 

Too close for comfort - shorebirds take the skies after being spooked  at high tide in Cleethorpes earlier this week

A PLEA to watersports enthusiasts to stay away from the saltmarsh and sandbanks at Cleethorpes, near Grimsby, has been sounded by North East Lincolnshire Council.

It has been issued to coincide with today's  (May 11) World Migratory Day, the purpose of which is to encourage respect for wildlife - particularly birds, some of which fly to our shores from as far away as the Arctic or south of the Sahara Desert.

Whether the NELC appeal will have the desired impact remains to be seen.

Just hours before it was issued, paddleboarders were spotted disturbing thousands of shorebirds, such as knot, sanderling and plovers, that had been resting or feeding on the outer beach in readiness for their long flight to breeding grounds in the Arctic.

The council does not seek to be killjoys, spoiling the fun of watersports enthusiasts - it just wants them to stay away from flocks of birds which need both to feed and to conserve energy before the arduous flights that await.

"Cleethorpes and the Humber Estuary are designated Special Protection Area for wildlife,"says a NELC spokesperson. 

"Preventing SPA birds from feeding or roosting and causing them to take flight is a criminal offence and offenders can be prosecuted."

Birds use up precious energy as they flee the approach of watersports enthusiasts

 

Paddleboarders coasting through  a creek in the saltmarsh mean no harm but they often inadvertently frighten roosting or feeding redshank, curlew and other wetland birds 

On sunny and scenic springtime 'safari' in Scottish Highlands with Lincolnshire Bird Club

On the viewing platform at RSPB Insh Marshes - from left, Peter Skelson, Sue Misselbrook, Ian Misselbrook, Robin Bainbridge, Alan Smith, Jackie Locking, Pete Locking and Sally Johnston 

WHAT if a cuckoo ejected two eggs from the nest of an osprey, then laid one of its own?

Could the unthinkable happen? Surely not?

But this thought must have crossed the minds of visitors to the RSPB nature centre at Loch Garten in the Scottish Highlands early on Saturday morning when a single cuckoo perched directly next to an osprey's nest.

It stayed for only a few seconds before flying off, so, unfortunately, the 'experiment' had no opportunity to proceed.

This inquisitive cuckoo pondered whether to lay in an osprey's nest

The sound of cuckoos echoing through Abernethy forest and off  the waters of  Loch Mallachie was one one of the highlights of the five-day early-May  birding holiday run by the Lincolnshire Birding Club in conjunction with Yorkshire-based coach and accommodation company Cairngorm Travel.

During our 26-strong party's four hours at the nature centre, its  ospreys were not to be seen hunting for fish, but the male seemed only too happy to pose for photographs from afar.

Stationary osprey - this is the bird Scottish statues go to for advice

Other high spots  of the morning at this famous RSB reserve included goldeneye on Loch Mallachie with common sandpipers, tree pipits and  a singing redstart close by.

Common sandpiper - happily a plentiful  wader on the shores of many  lochs

Some of the birders on the trip also glimpsed and/or heard crested tit, another iconic Scottish species, but, alas, only fleetingly.

Next on the itinerary was an hour-long stop at nearby Nethy Bridge which was hosting a small community fair which was enjoyed by those of the party who, by now, had become  'birded out' for the day.

For those who remained committed to birding, nearby was a short circular walk which yielded tree creepers, a robin and both thrush species but not much else of ornithological note though an unusual ground growing fungus and a red squirrel provided alternative diversions.

At the community fair was a Cats Protection League stall where one of the hosts was a birder from Essex who had moved to Nethy Bridge eight years ago so much did he love the village.

However, contrary to its reputation, he said crested tits and crossbills were seldom seen, though, by way of compensation, he and neighbours had, in recent evenings, been enjoying the reeling song of a grasshopper warbler from a patch of long grass behind their gardens.

The first excursion of the holiday, two days earlier,  had been to Glenmore Forest and Loch Morlich, the latter possessing the highest inland beach in Britain which, in the sunshine had an almost Mediterranean feel.

It could almost be Spain - Loch Morlich in the sunshine 

It was while here that some the party glimpsed a white-tailed sea eagle majestically patrolling one quarter of the loch.

As at Loch Garten, there was also at least one tree pipit performing its enchanting song-flight from the top of a pine.

Tree pipit admiring the Scottish scenery

Time was when greenshank used to nest on the shores of Loch Morlich, but their disappearance as summer-staying visitors  has been attributed partly to the planting of pine  right up to the water's edge and partly to the growth  of water sport tourism.

In recent years, a large caravan and camping site has sprung. There are signs politely requesting dog-owners to keep their pets on leads to save causing disturbance to ground-nesting birds, but, unfortunately, these are routinely disregarded.

Thursday's afternoon two-hour stop-off was at Carrbridge, a village one of whose claims to fame is that it hosts the  annual World Porridge Making Championship.  

                                                

Who dares to jump? the famous bridge at Carrbridge 

There is a 30-minute circular walk to the bridge and back, passing a cemetery, but, maybe because it was early afternoon, birds were, for the most part, neither showing nor singing.

As last year, the party's stay was at Kingussie , 13 miles away from Aviemore. It is a delightful village which is lucky enough to have its own Co-op convenience store, a pharmacy, a library/bookshop, a post office, two charity shops, several art galleries. Oh yes, and a Chinese takeaway.

There is also a duck pond, The Glebe, surrounded by a reedbed,  and the village is served by a bus route and a railway station, both  within metres of the front door of  our hotel, the Duke of Gordon.

The Glebe on  one edge of Kingussie - note the daffodils were (just about) still in flower

The 'DoG', as it is known locally, did us proud, with comfortable rooms, friendly staff and sumptuous fare  - full Scottish breakfasts and beautifully presented (and ample) table-service four-course evening meals.

The Duke of Gordon - set in the heart of rich and diverse birding habitat

Behind the hotel is a woodland which is  home to treecreepers, red squirrels, great spotted woodpeckers and coal tits, with bullfinches, goldfinches greenfinches, siskins, blackbirds, wrens, long-tailed tits and thrushes, both mistle and song,  all conspicuous in the well-shrubbed gardens of nearby houses.

Also nearby are two horse fields, each full of blackbirds and thrushes (of both species) and several red-legged partridges.

Seen from afar, one bird looked, at first, as if it might be a ring ouzel, but perhaps it was a trick of light or a plumage aberration because, on closer scrutiny, the bird proved to be a starling. 

-Happily however, close-up sightings of the ring ouzel's close relative, the dipper (or water ouzel), were regular, with two or three (sometimes pursued by a feisty pair of grey wagtails) flitting up and down the fast flowing Gynack burn that runs alongside the hotel thence to the River Spey which is no more than 15 minutes' walk away.

Dippers were conspicuous in the burn running past the hotel

Higher up beyond the wood to the rear of the hotel, is first a golf course, then moorland habitat where buzzards soar, wheatears flit and snipes perform their drumming flights.

A walk leads past a tarn, then down to the village of Newtonmore famed for its wildcats, from where it is two-mile walk back along a flat path footpath to Kingussie.

However, the Duke of Gordon's trump card when it comes to location is its proximity, just two or three miles away,  from one of the RSPB's less-well known Scottish reserves - the one at Insh Marshes.

In winter, this is famed for its large population of whooper swans, but we were surprised, in the first week of May, to see two lingerers that had chosen to tarry a while longer before making the long trip back to their breeding home in Iceland.

It was in a field here, on Friday, that one of our party, Ian Misselbrook, detected, by both sound and sight, a handsome yellow wagtail - a familiar enough bird at Lincolnshire's RSPB Frampton Marsh reserve in Lincolnshire, where he is a volunteer guide, but a rarity, indeed, so far north in Scotland.

Thanks are due to all at Goole-based Cairngorm Travel, not least coach driver Paul, and to the very welcoming staff at the Duke of Gordon Hotel, plus the administrators of two Facebook groups, Lincolnshire Birding and Grimsby RSPB, for allowing their pages to  be used for publicising the holiday.

For information about future birding holidays, keep checking these sites and preferably join the Lincolnshire Bird Club whose members have first access to updates via its forum and its monthly newsletter, The Heron.  

* Cairngorm Travel:

https://cairngorm-travel.co.uk

* Lincolnshire Bird Club:

https://www.lincsbirdclub.co.uk

The village of Kingussie seen from RSPB Insh Marshes

Mistle thrushes were common - this bird sharing a field with a curlew

Every tree and bush seemed to have at least one singing willow warbler whistling its sweet but sad refrain

This male reed bunting showed well at Loch Morlich

Goldeneye were present on many of the waters 

Congratulations to Linda Sterling, seen with husband Bill, who won a copy of Chris Packham's Birdwatching Guide in the first of two free draws

We never saw an  osprey in flight - except in this painting on the wall at the side entrance to the hotel 

This drake shoveler showed well at Insh Marshes

These greenfinches enjoyed feeding on one of the feeders outside a hide at Insh Marshes 

What would be a holiday in Scotland without tartan and bagpipes? Some of the team at the Duke of Gordon

Well done to Pete Locking, seen with wife Jackie, winner of Hedgelands - prize book in the second of the two draws

                                  

This bird got us quite cross. Seen from afar it could almost have been a ring ouzel, but closer scrutiny revealed . . . a starling!

Searching for something to eat - grey heron in reedbed at Loch Morlich

They really love their horses in the Cairngorms 

Watch out - birders about!

Raven (that's the one on the left) and cow

Our superlative coach driver, Paul, sports his magnificent Hulme tartan kilt 

High-profile swift campaigner Hannah Bourne-Taylor among speakers lined up for Global Birdfair 2024

Hannah Bourne-Taylor presents a complimentary swiftbrick to Michael Gove as one of her supporters, Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park, looks on

ONE of the most entertaining speakers at this year's Global Birdfair is likely to be Hannah Bourne-Taylor who has been running a campaign on behalf of swifts.

She wants the Government to make it mandatory for housebuilders to install nestbricks for the species in at least a proportion of their new developments.

Last year, she initiated a 'Commons debate and had discussions with Levelling-Up and Housing Secretary, Michael Gove, but, as yet, has been unable to seal the deal.

She hopes that her proposed talk on Saturday July 13 will help reignite her campaign which risks petering out.

The programme of lectures over the three days has a familiar feel to it with the return of the likes of David Lindo, Mike Dilger,  Rick Simpson who are always good value. 

Other speakers in the programme include  Paul Howden-Leach, who will discuss the sounds of nocturnal bird migration, Laura Gardner on the reintroduction of the chough in Kent and Dominic Garcia Hall who will retrace, through the birds seen en route, the famous fact-finding journey of Charles  Darwin aboard The Beagle.

On a controversial note, Craig Jones will explore the ethics of bird photography and how over-zealous snappers sometimes cause nuisance to their quarry (and fellow-birders).

The first draft of the lectures programme reads as below:

Friday 12 July

Avocet Lecture Stage 

0930 Rafael Armada

Photographs and stories of extraordinary birds

1000 Dan O’Neill

Secret Lives of Snow Leopards

1030 Morven Summers 

30 years of surveying Whales and Dolphins in Scotland

1100 RSPB presentation

1130 Carolyn Robertson

Lek It Be - Capercaillie emergency in the Cairngorms

1200 Dr Ian Francis

Supporting bird conservation across Africa - 30 years of action

1230 Rick Simpson

Wader Questing Down Under

1300 RSPB presentation

1330 Denis Bohm

Herzegovina - Spring Migration Along the Adriatic Flyway

1400 Nick Acheson

Norfolk: Wild Habitats, Wild Species & Wild Adventures

1430 Dominique Waddoup

Bird-window collisions: How to take action and current solutions

1500 RSPB presentation

1530 John Lister-Kaye OBE

Wildlife of the Scottish Highlands

1600 Niall Hatch

Seabirds Counts between 2015 and 2021

1630 Avijit Sarkhel

Birds & Mammals of South India and Andamans

1700 Annarie Seecharan

Birding in  Your Back Yard

1730 Lizzie Lemon

Nattergal - Boothby Wildland

Curlew Lecture Stage

0930 Sergey Dereliev

Waterbird monitoring: watching birds with a purpose

1000 Charles Anderson

Small boat wildlife cruising in the tropical Indo-pacific

1030 Rob Williams

Birding in Peru

1100 Carlos Bethancourt

Discover Panama: A Birdwatcher's and Nature Lover's Paradise

1130 Mary Colwell

Eurasian Curlews in the UK and Ireland

1200 Rockjumper

1230 Ryan Chenery

An introduction to the Endangered Endemics of the Lesser Antilles

1300 Roy Atkins

Cyprus - where anything can turn up!

1330 Vaughan Ashby

Birds of Bolivia

1400 Jari Peltomäki

Wildlife photographer’s year in Finland

1430 Claudio F. Vidal

Birds and Plant Life of Chile's Remote Islands

1500 Rockjumper presentation

1530 Steven Stansfield

Bardsey Island, the island of 20,000 saints and 50,000 shearwaters

1600 Christoph Zöckler

Spoonbilled Sandpiper Conservation

1630 Leslie Reynolds

Birding in Zambia: what to see and where to go

1700 Bret Charman

Japan’s Winter Wonderland

1730 Quentin Phillpps

Birds of Borneo

Plover Lecture Stage

0930 Tom Mason

Why you need a project as a wildlife photographer!

1000 Paul Hackett

Phonescoping - the basics learn how to take pictures with a scope

1030 David Lindo

Urban birding

1100 Georgie Dodds - Naturetrek

Zambia uncovered.

1130 Chandika Jayaratne

Sri Lanka's wildlife and conservation in a tourism perspective

1200 Luke Paterson

Birding Adventures in Australia’s Northern Territory & beyond

1230 Mohit Aggarwal

A mesmerising journey to see the Trans Himalayan bird species

1300 Aaron Russ

The Birds and Conservation Success Stories of Heritage Expeditions

1330 Xavier Amigo

Darwin and Wolf, two unknown islands of the Galapagos archipelago

1400 Tom Mabbett – Naturetrek 

Brazil - Harpy Eagles to Jaguars

1430 Craig Jones

No Man's Land - Not far from the Russian / Finnish border

1500 Laura Gardner, Director of Conservation, Wildwood. 

Red-billed chough - a model for Species Reintroduction and Increased Biodiversity

1530 Dominic Garcia-Hall

Retracing Darwin's Footsteps: The Voyage of The Beagle through birds.

1600 Alain Pascua

Introduction to Philippine Endemic Birds and Philippine Bird Tours

1630 Grant Reed

Birding in Botswana

1700 Dan Brown 

Which Antarctic Expedition Cruise?

1730 Atilla Steiner

Georgia and Armenia, treasures of the Caucasus

Saturday 13 July

Avocet Lecture Stage 

0930 Jon Mason

A Year in Reserve

1000 Mark Pearson

Filey International - autumn migration thrills on the Yorkshire coast

1030 Jakub Kronenberg

From birds as hat ornaments to interspecies justice

1100 To be confirmed

1130 YaYa

Why The Gambia is famous for bird watching

1200 Marcy Summers

Successful community based conservation leads towards recovery of the Maleo

1230 Guy Kirwan

Birds of the World - in-depth life histories of every bird

1300 To be confirmed

1330 Tony Williams

Birding News from France 

1400 Dr Sean McCormack

Ealing (West London ) Beaver Project

1430 Bret Charman

Colombia Bird Photography

1500 To be confirmed

1530 Craig Jones

Fantastic Falkland 

1600 Emma Strong

What we feed our wild birds - the true impact!

1630 Peter Eeles

British & Irish Butterfly Rarities

1700 Craig Fellowes

National Wildlife Crime Unit

1730 Jon Hall and Charles Foley

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Golden Age of Mammal watching

Curlew Lecture Stage

0930 Krisztina Scheeff

Grebes 

1000 Hannah Bourne-Taylor

Campaigning for Swifts

1030 Tonia Cochran

Birds of Australia

1100 Marek Borkowski

Maybe the best breeding birds garden in Europe

1130 Raffaele Di Biase

Wildlife and  Birds of The Route of the Parks of Patagonia

1200 Rockjumper presentation

1230 Pedro Prata

Rewilding in Portugal's Greater Côa Valley

1300 Nikhil Devasar

Bird Tourism in Uttar Pradesh

1330 Raymond Jeffers

Dominica -the nature island of the Eastern Caribbean-home to parrots, hummers and more

1400 Dan Brown

In Search of Iberian Lynx and  Raptors in Southern Spain

1430 Sabah Representative

Birding in Borneo

1500 Rockjumper presentation

1530 Mike Dilger

Enchanting Ecuador

1600 Paul Howden-Leach

Listening in the dark: The sounds of nocturnal migration

1630 Helen Bryon

Patagonia’s Pumas and Orca

1700 Rebecca Nason

Shetland Seabird Tours - The Noss Boat. Northern Seabirds, Cetaceans & Photography

1730 Benjamin Ward. 

Birds Beyond Borders - Film Screening & Q&A

Plover Lecture Stage

0930 Scott Whittle

Powering up Conservation - using technology to save wildlife

1000 Andrew St Joseph

The East Atlantic Flyway of Coastal Birds

1030 Richard Parsons

Biodiversity and Bellavista: Discover the beautiful birds of North-western Ecuador

1100 Ben Chapple - Naturetrek

India’s Wild Heart

1130 Boris Belchev

Autumn migration magic at Curonian spit National Park

1200 John White

Getting Started with Birda Birdwatching App

1230 Sophie Dingwall

South Pole Expedition insights to the birding world

1300 Claudien Nsabagasani

Birding and wildlife tourism in East Africa

1330 Norby Lopez

Rediscovering the Biodiverse Amazon of Ecuador

1400 Ben Chapple - Naturetrek

Mammals of Madagascar

1430 Tobago Birding Representative

Birding in Tobago 

1500 Wild Rutland

White Storks

1530 Peter Waanders

Australia's amazing outback birding spectacle

1600 Alberto Bosque Coello

Proposals for fauna and flora observation in the region of Castilla y León (Spain)

1630 Oliver Wright 

Adventures of a Macro Photographer in Wildlife Rich Bulgaria

1700 Arjun Sinsinwar

Voyage across Bhitarkanika National Park, Orissa, & immerse in this unique ecosystem.

1730 Harry Munt

Rewilding The Anthropocene

Sunday 14 July

Avocet Lecture Stage 

0930 David Chandler

An introduction to binoculars and telescopes

1000 David Zingfa

Overlap between bird conservation and agriculture in Hadejia (Nigeria) wetland complex

1030 Lizzie Lemon

Nattergal - High Fen

1100 RSPB presentation

1130 Carolyn Robertson

Lek It Be - Capercaillie emergency in the Cairngorms

1200 Sony presentation

1230 Łukasz Mazurek

Białowieża Forest - the last primeval forest of Europe

1300 RSPB presentation

1330 Mark Pearson

The School of Birding - How to Become a Better Birder

1400 Dominic Garcia-Hall

Naked Birding - how listening and audio recording are transforming birding

1430 Mary Colwell

What's happening with the Natural History GCSE?

1500 RSPB

1530 Holly Page

Birding the Scottish Highlands and  Islands in Autumn

Curlew Lecture Stage

0930 Rachel Bigsby

A Seabird Summer Pole to Pole

1000 Balazs Szigeti

Snow Leopards and the spectacular wildlife in Mongolia

1030 João Jara

Mértola Birds & Nature Festival

Brief description of the event, including information about the field activities, talks and conservation projects

1100 Nick Acheson

Norfolk: Wild Habitats, Wild Species and Wild Adventures

1130 Javier Elorriaga Navarro

Known and unknown highlights of birding in Andalusia

1200 Rockjumper presentation

1230 Mike Dilger

South Coast Wildlife Extravaganza

1300 Carmen Rueda 

Conservation for Iberian Lynx

1330 Sean Cole & Mike Waller

The Orchids & Other Wildlife of Northwest Eire

1400 Marcelo Gavensky

Birding in Argentina: how to plan your trip

1430 Sally Nowell

Alladale Wilderness Reserve And The Wild Sutherland Coasts

1500 Rockjumper presentation

Plover Lecture Stage

0930 Paul Hackett

Phonescoping - the basics learn how to take pictures with a scope

1000 Vicente Pantoja-Maggi

Science and community together in Birds Of The World: the case of Chile

1030 Louis Schopp

Ranger life - living and working as a Ranger

1100 Paul Stanbury - Naturetrek

Costa Rica - Quetzals & Cloudforests

1130 Sara Frost - Naturetrek

St Kilda

1200 Hugh Vere Nicoll, Wild Rutland

Wild Rutland - The destination for the curious adventurer

1230 Steven Stansfield

Bird Observatories - what are they all about?

1300 Mohit Aggarwal

Saving the threatened avifauna of Gujarat and Rajasthan

1330 Craig Jones

Ethical Wildlife Photography - we need to step back, think twice about we’re doing

1400 Andy Tucker - Naturetrek

Galapagos

1430 Charles Anderson

The Wandering Glider Dragonfly – the World’s Greatest Migrant

1500 Eleni Galinou

Spring/summer 2024 highlights for Lesvos, Greece.