Life List: A Birding Podcast
Birdy. Proudly nerdy. Detailed. Not-so-subtly obsessive. Delve into all things birding and birding culture with George Armistead, Alvaro Jaramillo, and Mollee Brown. Join us for light-hearted conversations on birds, conservation, travel, and more.
Life List: A Birding Podcast
Global conservation and the Birdfair that started a movement with Tim Appleton
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George Armistead, Alvaro Jaramillo, and Mollee Brown
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Season 6
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Episode 9
This episode, we're catching up with Tim Appleton: co-founder of Global Birdfair and lifelong conservationist...and who possibly has the UK's best yard list.
Highlights of our chat include:
- How one idea became the world’s largest nature tourism and bird conservation gathering—and what makes it unique
- 125 species and counting from Tim's Rutland cottage overlooking a reservoir he helped design
- How Tim helped reintroduce breeding ospreys to England
- The goals of Global Birding and Global Bird Weekends
- Conservation results from Borneo to the Falklands, murals to migration corridors, and saving seabirds from longlines
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Come for the whiskey tent stories… stay for the message of passion-driven conservation!
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