Sunday, 4 May 2025

Global Birdfair, July 11-13, 2025: The full list of Friday's speakers - including Curlew champion Mary Colwell

                                             

Scanning the sky for Curlews - Mary Colwell (photo: curlewaction.org)


Osprey Stage 

1000:  To be confirmed 

1100: Scotland’s Wild Side 

1200: Nigel Marven: Encounters with Penguins 

1300: Dominic Dyer: The impact of American nationalism and isolationism under President Trump on global cooperation to tackle the climate and nature crisis. 

1400: Simon King: Tales from the Bush and beyond 

1500: Global Birdfair official opening & Safeguarding Ocean Species project launch  with BirdLife International 

1600: Desert Island Birds: Roy Dennis reveals the birds he would most welcome on his Desert Island to Stephen Moss.  

1700: Dominic Dyer: Wildlife Crime 

1800: Robert E Fuller: The value of ponds 

1930: Peter Harrison:The Albatrosses 

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Avocet Lecture Stage  

0930: Nick Skilbeck: An RSPB Local Group reinvigorated through community and conservation projects including playing fields converted to habitat for birds and sand martin boxes. 

1000: Alison Whitfield: Kavango Zambezi - Rivers of Life 

1030: Jon Mason: Castle Wild Camp - what happens when camping and nature combine? 

1100: Charles Anderson: Indonesian seabirds and other marine wildlife 

1130: Carlos Bethancourt:  Darién -  Land of the Harpy Eagle and Birding Wonders 

1200: Leonardo de Moura Persi: Embratur Brasil 

1230: Dan Brown:  Scotland's Wild Isles.   

1300: Leio De Souza:  Birding in Papua New Guinea: Birds of Paradise and More 

1330: Tony Thorne: Wildlife Journeys in Guyana 

1400: Anton Wolfaardt: Saving Marion Island's Seabirds - The Mouse-Free Marion Project. 

1430: Rob Williams: Endemic Birds of Peru 

1500: Luciano Lima:the Brazilian Amazon

1530: Daniel Roman 

 1600: Rene Montero:  Safe birding in Colombia 

1630: Scott Pursner:  Seabird Bycatch Work in East Asia - Tales from Taiwan 

1700: Carole Turek: Magnificent Obsession - The Quest to Photograph Every Hummingbird Species 

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Curlew Lecture Stage

1000: Chris Bell: Colombia - The Country of Beauty 

1030: Leslie Reynolds:  Where to Watch Birds in Zambia 

1100: Vaughan Ashby: The best f the 6,000 bird species he has photographed around the world

1130: Susan Morgan: Unravelling  the complex challenges facing UK songbirds 

1200: Mike Dilger: Papua New Guinea

1230: Mary Colwell:  Curlews of the World 

1300: Peter Waanders:  Australia - Land of Parrots 

1330: Alejandra Rendón: Birds of Colombia  

1400: Lara Broom: Birdwatching in São Tomé and Príncipe

1430: Nick Acheson and Michael Warren:  Wildlife and Nature Writing on the Isle of Islay 

1500: Mohit Aggarwal: Himalayan Birds 

1530: James Kimball: Wildlife on the Western Caribbean Slope of Bocas Del Toro, Panamá 

1600: Denis Bohm:  Herzegovina - Spring Migration Along the Adriatic Flyway Route. 

1630: Chris Bell: 2000 Birds: A Very Big South American Year 

1700: Mary Colwell: Update on the status of the GCSE in Natural History - is it going to happen?

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Plover Lecture Stage 

1000: Toby Carter: Zeiss products 

1030: Marek Borkowski: From longbows to Corncrakes. How the nature of NE Poland powered Britain since mediaeval times 

1100: Andy Tucker:  Ecuador - from Amazon to The Andes 

1130: Jamie McKaughan: Migration of endangered Egyptian Vultures from Central Asia 

1200: Stephen Moss: Lo-tech to hi-tech: how technology has transformed birding. 

1230: Sara Frost:  Mexico’s Baja California and Sea of Cortez 

1300: Rachel Bigsby:  The Art of Seabird Photography 

1330: Alain Pascua: Philippine Endemic Birds 

1400: Guy Anderson: Update on Spoon-billed Sandpiper conservation 

1430: Sean McCormack: Urban bird conservation

1500: Kerrie Porteous: A tour operator’s perspective on the biodiversity crisis 

1530: Yeray Seminario: Exploring Global Raptor Migration Hotspots 

1600: Tonia Cochran: The world's only migratory parrots - Orange-bellied Parrots, Blue-winged Parrots and Swift Parrots.

1630: Marija Perkovic: Birds of Livanjsko Polje, Bosnia and Herzegovina 

1700: Rafael Armada:  The Smallest European Seabird - The Story of Mediterranean Storm Petrels. 

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