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Brazilian Duck, REGUA, Brazil JACOB GARVELINK has been a birder since he was eight years old. Even though his parents weren’t avid birders, they did encourage his curiosity for nature and took him around the Netherlands looking at nature on a regular basis. From his hometown Bloemendaal he explored the superb dune habitats at the Kennemerduinen. The Ijmuiden pier was another one of his favourite spots to go birdwatching. After his high school years, he spent a full year travelling, exploring Australia and New Zealand. It was during this trip that a new passion for travelling emerged. During his studies (Art History) in Amsterdam he travelled to Southeast Asia, China, Morocco, Egypt, Sri Lanka and the USA. After his studies he visited Ethiopia, South Africa, Botswana and Namibia several times. The magnificent continent of Africa has even further broadened his passion for birds. Jacob likes to photograph birds, a new challenge he likes to commit himself to! ORLANDO HARASEB is a lead guide and guide trainer with Ultimate Safaris. Before starting as a safari guide he was the Captain of the Namibian National Football Team and is thus a well-known personality with lots of friends throughout the country. He then went to work at Hobatere Lodge for several years with Steve Braine who is one of the most knowledgeable best respected birding guides in Namibia, and it was here that Orlando built up the knowledge that allowed him to become a birding guide in his own right. Orlando moved to Ultimate Safaris when he left Hobatere in 2005 and has increased his experience as a national guide over that time while also obtaining the qualifications necessary to become a national guide trainer. He now divides his time between leading specialist safaris and offering guide training through the prestigious Namibian Academy of Tourism and Hospitality (NATH), of which he is Board vice Chairman. CRISTIAN JENSEN grew up in Barcelona and having a Danish father and a Catalan mother, he is fluent in Spanish, Catalan and English as well as having basic French and Danish. He has been a keen birdwatcher from the age of 12 and is a ringer and is also involved with educational projects for schools. He has been a tour guide for many years as well as working on the re-introduction of Peregrine Falcons in Barcelona and for the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation. ANDY JONES is now resident in Iceland but was previously a warden on Skomer Island, a ranger with the Pembrokeshire National Park, the RSPB’s senior investigator officer and a Wildlife Trust director. A trained geologist he guides wildlife holidays all over the world. He regularly writes, lectures and broadcasts on wildlife and conservation topics and has proved to be a very popular leader on our Iceland holidays. NIGEL JONES is the Managing Director of Ornitholidays. His interest in birds and natural history led to a degree in Biological Sciences at the University of East Anglia, then to employment as Assistant Warden on Fair Isle in the Shetlands and as an ornithologist working in the Camargue, France. Subsequent posts in teaching and research have finally culminated in his position running Ornitholidays since 1990. He has travelled extensively to all seven continents in search of birds. His interest in other aspects of natural history has been reflected in his establishing Quest for Nature, an internet based operation which offers general tours for wildlife. DAVID KUHN lives on Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands. He has been leading wildlife tours for over 30 years, with an interest in birds stemming from his youth in rural California. He began his leading career in his beloved Sierra Nevada, he has since led trips to other parts of North America as well as Guatemala, Costa Rica and Fiji, and has travelled widely in the Neotropics. Drawn to Hawaii’s endemic avifauna, he moved to Kokee on Kauai in 1989 and has since been guiding visiting birders throughout the Hawaiian archipelago. David is an avid sound recordist with a special focus on vocalizations of the forest endemics and the mountain-nesting seabirds. His Hawaiian birding tours are influenced by his active interest in conservation and environmental education and he co-led our 2010 and 2013 tours to Hawaii. HARRIET KEMIGISHA is a Ugandan who grew up close to Kibale National Park and was raised by her grandparents. Her love of birds began at a young age as her grandfather taught her to identify and name the local forest birds. After school she worked with the Uganda Wildlife Authority as a guide based in Kibale National Park. She is undoubtedly one of the best bird guides in the country and is Uganda’s only female bird guide. She discovered a new species for Uganda, Orange Cheeked Waxbill and re-discovered the Green-Breasted Pitta in Kibale Forest National Park in 2005. She co-led our previous two tours to Uganda. ARI LATJA started watching birds at a young age and especially enjoyed migration-watching and for several years made two-week stays to the southern headland of Porkkala to see the 'arktika' - the mass migration of Arctic waders and waterfowl through the Baltic. In 1978 he moved to Joensuu to study geography and biology and has stayed in Northern Karelia ever since. For 15 years he concentrated on ringing, mostly at the bird observatory at Höytiäinen canal and was the chairman of the Northern Karelia Birdwatching Society for a number of years, and is still a member of the board. He started tour guiding in 1997, when he attended Finnature's eight month International Bird Guide course. In addition to tour leading, he also acts as a consultant in other areas requiring ornithological expertise including bird inventories for local environmental officials, and lecturing in zoology at the University of Joensuu. FRANK McCLINTOCK was born in Africa and educated in England. He emigrated to Portugal over 20 years ago and bought some scrubland and a few ruins overlooking a vast, man-made lake. He has turned this property into ‘Paradise in Portugal’, a guest lodge, which, in addition to a view to die for, offers excellent eco-friendly accommodation. He has always had a passion for nature and has been a professional bird guide for over 10 years. ROBERT NTAKOR was born and raised on a farm surrounded by rainforest near Kakum National Park in Ghana. He has spent almost all his life exploring the forest and has a passion for Ghana's wildlife and in particular its birds. Robert, and many of his brothers, are now the chief bird guides in Ghana. He has a great knowledge of his country and this, coupled with his amazing ability to identify every song and call of all the birds of Ghana, makes him a great guide to have in his native country. Robert has led all of the previous Ornitholidays’ tours to Ghana. GABOR ORBAN became interested in birding whilst a young boy and later widened his interests to botany, geology and zoology. During the 80's and 90's he led several tours firstly in Hungary, then in other Eastern European countries and Western Europe as well. He lived and worked for years in the US criss-crossing the continent several times. He became a licensed professional birdwatching and nature guide, and since 2006 he has spent six months every year in Latin America and six months in Eastern Europe. He leads birding, nature, cultural, butterfly and photographic tours worldwide. He is passionate about sharing his knowledge of nature and the culture of different countries and his hobbies include nature and wildlife photography, birding and travelling to hidden places. BERT PALTHE is a long-standing registered guide and has many years of experience, both in tourism and wildlife conservation. After qualifying as a specialist in Nature Conservation, he went on to manage exclusive game reserves in the previous Eastern and Northern Transvaal. He is now a full time tour leader based in Cape Town. Bert has a passionate interest in wildlife, birds and nature conservation, and genuinely enjoys sharing his wealth of knowledge with others. He has led our Natural History tours to the Cape region for the past few years and he has proved very popular with our groups. MITKO PETRAKIEV is a Bulgarian who has a passion for the outdoor life. He has led many walking and bird tours, and his knowledge of the geography, geology, and natural history adds immensely to each holiday where he is the guide. He has co-led our previous Jordan and Turkey tours. O U R T E A M O F L E A D E R S To make a booking please call Ornitholidays on 01794 519445 151
O U R T E A M O F L E A D E R S Blue-winged Macaws, REGUA, Brazil PAUL ROGERS has had a life-long interest in natural history, which is underlined by his qualifications in Ecology and Animal Behaviour gained at London University. He is a principal leader for Ornitholidays and has led over 230 tours. He now has the privilege of living at Shorelands on Anglesey, the former home of wildlife artist Charles Tunnicliffe. He is widely travelled in Europe, North America and Africa and lectures on ornithology, ecology and all aspects of natural history. NICOLA SCATASSI has been interested in birds, and nature in general, since he was young. He is an excellent birdwatcher, as well as a very good all-round naturalist. His ornithological interest is perfectly combined with his great passion for travelling through the Italian Peninsula and to all continents. Since 2000 he has worked as ranger for the Po River Natural Park in Piedmont and for many years he has been guiding nature and bird watching tours. He speaks fluent English and he has co-led our Italy - Birds & Wine tours for the past few years. GÁBOR SIMAY has been interested in birds and nature conservation since his first years in primary school. During his studies at the University of Debrecen he deepened his knowledge on birds, carried out research on ground-nesting birds of the Hortobágy National Park, spending most of his time in the field. His favourite area is the Bihar Plain and the Hortobágy. In 2008 he started to work for the Hortobágy National Park as a full time warden in the Bihar Plain area. He is also a member of the Hungarian Rarity Committee. He frequently visits other parts of Hungary as well as many sites of the Carpathian Basin to study birds. As a keen birdwatcher and photographer, he has visited several different Western Palearctic countries (e.g. Turkey, Spain, Egypt, Jordan), as well as Namibia, Mexico, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia and India. He speaks perfect English and some German. MANO THARMALINGHAM is a naturalist who was amongst the first Malaysians to venture into nature tourism and has actively pursued a career in this field. Mano has travelled extensively within Peninsula Malaysia and Sabah, Borneo and the surrounding regions in search of birds and is particularly interested in their vocalisations. He is a life member of the Malaysian Nature Society and is actively involved with the society's bird study group, participating in several field trips. He is a director of Kingfisher Tours has been leading bird watching and natural history tours throughout the country since 1977. UTHAI TREESUCON is undoubtedly the most experienced Thai birdwatcher. He has a biological background and his knowledge of bird song has helped our previous groups see many elusive species. He has led hundreds of birdwatching tours in his native Thailand in addition to the many tours he has led to Vietnam. DAVID WALSH lives in Suffolk and has been a keen birdwatcher for most of his life. Over the last few years he has led many tours to Europe, Africa and North America. His other interests include butterflies and dragonflies. David has proved very popular with Ornitholidays' clients on the tours he recently led to Morocco, Corsica, Camargue and the Canary Islands. He has travelled widely in Asia and South America and the countries he has visited include China, Tibet, Vietnam, Thailand Indonesia, Peru and Venezuela. DEEPAL WARAKAGODA is one of Sri Lanka’s top birdwatching tour guides and the author of the new Field Guide to the Birds of Sri Lanka. He will be happy to show us virtually all of the country’s endemic birds on our tour. He has been the leader on our last seven holidays to Sri Lanka. STEVE WEST first started birding on his walks to and from school when he was a seven year old schoolboy in Hampshire, England. He had his first taste of foreign birding in Spain in 1983 with the UEA bird club while studying for his degree in Ecology at the University of East Anglia. Further foreign trips led him around different parts of Europe before he settled in Spain in 1988. Steve has combined teaching, translating and conducting bird surveys with leading bird tours around Spain since 1996. Fluent in both Spanish and Catalan, he is also the author of two books, Where the birds are in northeast Spain and Flying over the Pyrenees, standing on the plains. MIKE WITHERICK is one of Ornitholidays' principal leaders, having taken early retirement from the University of Southampton, where he lectured on geography. Although particularly interested in the avifauna of the Western Palearctic, his record of leading over 200 tours has taken him to all seven continents. He served for 10 years on the Council of the RSPB and also completed a two-year term on the Inland Waterways Amenity Advisory Council. When not leading tours for Ornitholidays, he writes college textbooks. 152 For a previous tour report or further information please call: 01794 519445
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