Sunday, 4 May 2025

Global Birdfair, July 11-13, 2025: The full list of Saturday's speakers - including Urban Birder David Lindo

                                                                       

Tim Jones will talk  about the 'magic' of Spurn

                                        

Osprey Main Events  

1000: David Lindo: The Urban Birder 

1100: Kate MacRae: Capturing & connecting with your garden wildlife

1200: Mike Dilger: The Highs and Lows of 18 Years  on BBC TV's The One Show 

1300: Healing Nature - panel discussion on mental health

1400: Simon King: Tales from the Bush and Beyond 

1500: Bird Brain quiz

1600: John Mittermeier and Alex Berryman: The Search for Lost Birds - a global initiative to document bird species that have no confirmed records in the last decade.   

1700: Merlin Vs Humans Quiz Challenge 

1800: Ryan Dalton & Nadia Shaikh: Into the Wild’s Nature Room 101

1900: Universally Challenged: Quiz hosted by Stephen Moss. 

2100: Disco 

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Avocet Lecture Stage  

0930: Luke Paterson: Birds of  Australia’s Northern Territory

1000: Luís Dias & Susanne Strøm: Arctic Adventure from Skjervøy to Varanger 

1030: Claudio Vidal: Wildlife in the Islands of Chile - Tierra del Fuego, Chiloé and the Juan Fernandez Archipelago. 

1100: Stina Remmer:  Weekend Escape into Estonia’s Wild

1130: Dr. Arpit Bansal: How birding activates the flow state, heals the nervous system, and promotes emotional resilience, cognitive health, and longevity 

1200: Leonardo de Moura Persi: Brazil - The country of birds:

1230: Eleni Galinou:  Birding hotspots and birding the year round in Lesvos 

1300: Yeray Seminario:  Birds of Senegal

1330: Grant Reed: Birding in Botswana

1400: Quito

1430: Becky Ingham: Hookpod - an update on preventing seabird bycatch 

1500: Tobago

1530: Gavin McKinnon: Birding in Western Canada 

1600 Lia Nahomi Kajiki: An Eastern Amazonian birding extravaganza - 375 birds in 12 days 

1630: Serge Arias: Costa Rica Birding 

1700: Nandan Sengupta: Latpanchor - A Sanctuary for Rare Species in the Himalayas.

1730: Max Biasioli  

The supreme winter Arctic wish list- amazing photo tours in the Northern Hemisphere 

From Norwegian killer whales to Svalbard polar bears and walruses passing through the Snowy owls and Big owls 

in Canada and Stellar's eagles and cranes in Japan. 

1800 Raul Arias de Para: Birding in the Arctic 

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Curlew Lecture Stage 

0930: Tim Jones: The Magic of Spurn 

1000: Amano Samarpan:  Birds in Bhutan

1030: Holly Page:  Scottish Islands in summer

1100: Martin Perrow: The Adventures of Tern Boy 

1130: Rick Simpson: Wader Questing in New Zealand 

1200: Helen Bryon: The Call of the Kalahari  

1230: Annie Shadrake: Being an autistic birdwatcher

1300: Margaret Williams: Epic Habitat Restoration at Sea Lion Island 

1330: Lampros Katerinopoulos:  Birding in Kerkini National Park, Greece 

1400: Raffaele Di Biase: Birds and Wildlife of the Atacama Desert and the Altiplano 

1430: Chris Breen: Baja, the ultimate whale watching destination 

1500: Axel Drioli: The sounds of Western Palearctic birds in Africa 

1530: Belen Rodriguez: Nature tourism in Asturias, the North of Spain 

1600: Carolyn Robertson: A bird positive Scotland by 2030

1630: Toby Green:  Sensational South Africa - birds and mammals from the Western Cape to Kruger National Park. 

1700: Kathryn Cooper:  The complex and beautiful science behind murmurations 

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Plover Lecture Stage 

0930: TBC 

1000: Drew Lyness: Celebrating 50 years of RSPB Strumpshaw Fen 

1030: Ya Ya Barry: Why The Gambia is famous for Birdwatching

1100: Tim Melling: Birding in Costa Rica 

1130: Sue Morgan and Nicola Oakey: Creating a Bird-Friendly Garden

1200: Jack Perks : Britain's Hidden Fishes 

1230: Tim Melling:  A Voyage to Antarctica 

1300: Chris Eley: Birds on the Brink 

1330: Hilda Caprice: Birding in St Lucia 

1400: Graeme Buchanan and Nicola Crockford, RSPB: What can we learn from the extinction of the Slender-billed Curlew? 

1430: Peter Cowdrey: Planet Birdsong in Africa

1500: Tim Melling: The Wildlife of Svalbard (Spitsbergen) 

1530: Steven Stansfield: Bird Observatories - what are they all about? 

1600: Luis Urena: Saving Panama’s Great Green Macaws 

1630: Grace Ibberson: Reviving the Falklands - A Tale of Conservation and Hope

1700: TBC 

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