Sunday, 28 July 2019

BIRDFAIR 2019: DAY TWO PREVIEW - SATURDAY AUGUST 17



TODAY will probably be the busiest day at Birdfair 2019. Below is a list of the events planned for the main marquee and lecture theatres. More details, including a list of exhibitors, are in Birdfair's dedicated website: https://birdfair.org.uk


MAIN EVENTS 

10:00 am - 10:45 am
Big Cat Tales with Angela and Jonathan Scott

11:00 am - 11:45 am
Life before telly! with Iolo Williams

12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
The Good, the Bad and the General Licences with Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay, Mark Avery, Ruth Peacey and young friends

1:00 pm - 1:45 pm
Conservation without borders… with Sacha Dench, Tim Mackrill, Mike Dilger and David Stroud

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm
Living Lighter with Simon King

3:00 pm - 3:45 pm
Bird Brain of Britain chaired by Stephen Moss

4:00 pm - 4:45 pm
Bird Photographer of the Year present: the Bird Photographer of the Year Awards with Chris Packham

5:00 pm - 5:45 pm
Filming adventures with Harpy eagles and humming birds in Central America with Nigel Marven

7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Saving Land, Saving Species - The First 30 Years of World Land Trust



OSPREY LECTURE THEATRE


9:30 am - 9:50 am
It shouldn't happen to a wildlife presenter ! by Nigel Marven

10:00 am - 10:20 am
Making an impact - using film to help stop illegal bird persecution by Ruth Peacey

10:30 am - 10:50 am
Conserving Kenya's critical sites and species by Gloria Waswa

11:00 am - 11:20 am
Wader questing in Peru by Rick Simpson

11:30 am - 11:50 am
'Egrets - I've had a few!' - the birds of Somerset by Stephen Moss


12:30 pm - 12:50 pm
Monitoring our rare breeding birds by Dawn Balmer

1:00 pm - 1:20 pm
Borneo - in search of the Sunda clouded leopard by Tom Mabbett

1:30 pm - 1:50 pm
Tristan da Cunha: home of the northern rockhopper! by Dr Antje Steinfurth

2:00 pm - 2:20 pm
The plight of the Scottish wildcat by Sir John Lister-Kaye

2:30 pm - 2:50 pm
Birds of the Rio Grande do Sul State - Brazil by Edson Endrigo

3:00 pm - 3:20 pm
Birds of the Black Sea Flyway from the Baltic Sea to the Aegean by Toby Green

3:30 pm - 3:50 pm
Ethiopia's wildlife highlights by Tim Melling

4:00 pm - 4:20 pm
Rewilding Scotland by Sally Nowell

4:30 pm - 4:50 pm
Botswana - birding with wildlife by Grant Reed

5:00 pm - 5:20 pm
Osprey migration and the Osprey Leadership Foundation by Tim Mackrill

HARRIER LECTURE THEATRE

9:30 am - 9:50 am
Guyana's best birding and wildlife by Tony Thorne  

10:00 am - 10:20 am
Meadow magic by Angela Hewitt  

10:30 am - 10:50 am
21 years of conservation success in Ecuador by Adela Espinosa & Antonio Paez

11:00 am - 11:20 am
Tippo’s Tips by David Tipling

11:30 am - 11:50 am
 The Falklands, South Georgia & Antarctica - the wildlife of the Southern Oceans by Tim Melling  

12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
Ethiopia: where Africa touches the sky by Nick Acheson 

12:30 pm - 12:50 pm
The Great Fen, a future wetland and more by Henry Stanier


1:00 pm - 1:20 pm
Birdlife and Birdfair Quiz with Sarah Proud and Conor Jameson

1:30 pm - 1:50 pm
Steppes and wetlands in Eastern Austria by Harry Grabenhofer 

2:00 pm - 2:20 pm
Tippo’s Tips by David Tipling  

2:30 pm - 2:50 pm
Wild Japan in winter by Paul Stanbury  

3:00 pm - 3:20 pm
Pumas in Patagonia by Nick Garbutt  

3:30 pm - 3:50 pm
Shetland seabird tours - a real gannets eye view! by Rebecca Nason  

4:00 pm - 4:20 pm
Natural Treasures at and around Kondor Ecolodge Hungary by Gabor Orban  

4:30 pm - 4:50 pm
The history of A Focus on Nature (AFON): Looking back on 8 years of the youth conservation movement by Alexandra Hoadley  

5:00 pm - 5:20 pm
SBA Police success against bird trapping by Police Inspector Nicos Alambritis & Police Constable Michalis Protopapas  


HOBBY LECTURE THEATRE

9:30 am - 9:50 am
Champagne and Birds: the perfect combination! by Keith Betton

10:00 am - 10:20 am
Wild Women Do by Amy-Jane Beer

10:30 am - 10:50 am
Going wild in the Mediterranean by Mark Cocker

11:00 am - 11:20 am
Fantastic Falklands by Craig Jones

11:30 am - 11:50 am
South Africa is a naturalist’s paradise by Helen Bryon

12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
Taiwan – an island of endemics by Barrie Cooper

12:30 pm - 12:50 pm
The birds & whales of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula & Sea of Cortez by Tim Melling

1:00 pm - 1:20 pm
Biking Birder Adventure IV - Peru 2018, an attempt at becoming the World Green Birding (BIGBY) Champion by Gary Brian Prescott

1:30 pm - 1:50 pm
The Kenyan coastal forest and area key migration hotspots by Ann Scott

2:00 pm - 2:20 pm
My Patch - Nature close to Stanley, Falkland Islands by Andy Pollard

2:30 pm - 2:50 pm
Digiscoping for beginners by Paul Hackett

3:00 pm - 3:20 pm
Lynx & wolf watching in Spain by Andy Tucker

3:30 pm - 3:50 pm
The magic and mysteries of migration by Dominic Couzens

4:00 pm - 4:20 pm
 Norfolk: a birdwatchers top ten by Steve Rowland

4:30 pm - 4:50 pm
Why The Gambia is so special with bird life and the number of bird species in West Africa by YaYa Barry

5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Ask the speaker! All those birding questions you've ever wanted to ask by Alan Davies


MERLIN LECTURE THEATRE

9:30 am - 9:50 am
The photogenic wildlife of Ethiopia by Oliver Smart 

10:00 am - 10:20 am
The birth of a world class nature destination by Aditya Dhanwatay

10:30 am - 10:50 am
Conservation of old world vultures: assessing the threat of lead poisoning by Hanneline Smit-Robinson

11:00 am - 11:20 am
Reintroduction of Oriental White Storks in Japan - living in harmony with nature by Nakagai Muneharu

11:30 am - 11:50 am
The magical Danube Delta and the land of Dracula by Attila Steiner

12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
Birding the Pampa by Lucas Marti 

12:30 pm - 12:50 pm
Bird conservation in Wales by Danielle Rouse 

1:00 pm - 1:20 pm
Chinese water deer in England by Arnold Cooke

1:30 pm - 1:50 pm
Oregon: wet forests, dry forests, mountains, and steppe by Richard Hoyer

2:00 pm - 2:20 pm
DIY - Kruger by Mike Unwin 

2:30 pm - 2:50 pm
Time for the return of the English wildcat? by Peter Cooper

3:00 pm - 3:20 pm
Akrotiri Peninsula, Cyprus: a distasteful ménage à trois between birding, conservation and politics by Christina Ieronymidou & Elena Markitani 

3:30 pm - 3:50 pm
Rewilding the golf course by Steve Thompson 

4:00 pm - 4:20 pm
Nikon wildlife photography tips by Ricci Chera 

4:30 pm - 4:50 pm
Belize, a small country with BIG birding! by Jonathan Urbina

5:00 pm - 5:20 pm
Birding optics Q&A by David Chandler and Matt Merritt


AUTHORS’ FORUM


9:30 am - 10:00 am
The Orchid Hunter: searching for our tresses and twayblades by Leif Bersweden

10:15 am - 11:00 am
Wilding - the return of nature to a British farm by Isabella Tree

11:15 am - 12:00 pm
Inspiring wildlife, inspiring people by Helen Roy

12:15 pm - 12:45 pm
365 Days Wild by Lucy McRobert

1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
30 Birds to See Before You Die by Dominic Couzens

1:45 pm - 2:30 pm
Bird Therapy by Joe Harkness

2:45 pm - 3:30 pm
A Sparrow's Life's as Sweet as Ours by Carry Akroyd & John McEwen

3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
The Cruellest Plume Of All by Tessa Boase

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Why the Poetry? by Stuart Medland 

Below is a selection of photographs from previous birdfairs:















                                   

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