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| 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.
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