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Born and raised in Liverpool, England, Stephen now lives and works in Malmö, Sweden. He is Editor of British Birds and manages Falsterbo Bird Observatory.

A birder since a young age, Stephen holds a particular interest in moult, ageing and identification. He has travelled widely across the Western Palearctic, including annual trips to Morocco and Oman. He is a member of the British Birds Rarities Committee, a tour leader for WINGS, a ZEISS Ambassador, and gives talks on a variety of subjects.

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James Lidster has worked as a professional ecologist and in the eco-tourism industry for over 20 years. The latter as a senior leader for Sunbird and WINGS birding tours. He is bilingual (Dutch and English) and specialises in bird identification and has served on both the Dutch and British rarities committees. His years of experience with bat and reptile/amphibian surveys make him a much desired field ecologist in the Netherlands.

He has excellent aural and visual identification knowledge of all European bird species, and this ability has rewarded him with positions on the national rare bird committees of both Great Britain and the Netherlands.

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Debby Doodeman is a professional birder and founder of FOGOL, organising all things birds and nature from excursions by sailing boat to the national birding week in the Netherlands and other events.

She is an active field ecologist specialising in bird and bat surveys and has just written her first book about birders. By understanding who these birders are she hopes to inspire more people to go birding, the more birders the more support for the natural world?

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Mark has been lucky enough to spend plenty of my time enjoying birds and wildlife. He is based on the Yorkshire coast, on the western seaboard of the North Sea where he grew up, and returned to several years ago. Among other things Mark is a field ornithologist, nature writer, speaker and guide, comms specialist for conservation causes and a musician / songwriter with Morning Bride.

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Paul has been birding since he was about 8 years old. He started his career working for conservation charities, firstly as assistant warden at Fair Isle Bird Observatory and then specialising in the creation and management of wetland habitats for the RSPB. He then became a freelance ornithologist, doing various bird surveys and leading tours for Sunbird to destinations such as Georgia, Mongolia, Central Asia and Ghana.

He is now a senior ornithologist at HiDef Aerial Surveying and the Chair of the British Birds Rarities Committee and spends much of his time birding his local patch around Spurn Bird Observatory.

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Richard is a British ornithologist and ecologist, widely travelled in the Middle East. His conservation career, covering six decades, started with RSPB where he became head of species protection. Moving to BirdLife International he launched their Middle East conservation programme for which he is still adviser.

Author of several books, including Birds of the Middle East, Richard is also a council member of the World Land Trust, a past member of the BBRC and has recently retired as a trustee of the journal, British Birds.

Toby Carter is hugely passionate about conservation and encouraging people to explore their local patch. Toby is currently working for Rare Bird Alert as a member of their news team. Having graduated from Bangor University in North Wales with a degree in Environmental Conservation he has always been a keen birder with an interest in other aspects of the natural world from a young age onwards.

He thinks back to a childhood spent very much outdoors. A visit with his grandparents to the Titchwell Marsh RSPB nature reserve on the Norfolk coast really sparked his interest, cemented further back to the present, he is now an avid birder and recent graduate who is hugely passionate about conservation and encouraging people to explore their local patch.

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