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Doing Our Bit.

Long before we created Bird Holidays, we worked independently to help various conservation bodies.

Andy is a renown fungi expert leading several forays in search of the unusual and Roger spent a lot of time in Paraguay and Kenya doing bird surveys. Paul is still treasurer of the Flamborough Head Ornithological Group after many years of finding some of their most famous rarities. The site has developed to become one of the UK's newest Bird Observatories. Phil undertook, BTO surveys and Radio-tracking projects. The most well-known being a Nightjar study at Thorne and Hatfield Moors. Phil also sits on the Rarities Committee for Nottinghamshire Birdwatchers and has been used as a witness in a trial to convict egg collectors.

In addition, we have been called as expert witnesses to fly the flag for conservation in controversial wind farm proposals in Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. We are also regularly used as 'spotters' on the popular RSPB Skua pelagics from Bridlington.

We are most proud to say that we are the first Travel Company to make all of our flights and those of our customers Carbon Neutral, while at the same time creating a new reserve in Ecuador. click here for more info.

We support the work of local RSPB groups. For example in 2008, we will be supporting Leeds RSPB & Airedale RSPB by funding the publication of their newsletters.

Paul is now manager of the school football team where son Thomas is a pupil - although the Yorkshire weather plays havoc with his fixture list (& results!).

Phil has been chosen to be part of expedition staff on board a Russian nuclear icebreaker visiting the North Pole in the summer of 2008. He will be a lecturer having gained extensive experience of birding and wildlife watching in Polar regions. This trip will be to witness a solar eclipse. Re-visit this web-site later in the year to see images of his trip.

Below are photographs of wonderful old English long horn cattle used by the Nottinghamshire Wildlife trust to manage a heathland SSSI . Phil is an active member who has worked extensively for them as an advisor and spokesperson dealing with local authorities. He has Chaired several committees and meetings, and is currently assisting with the creation of a massive Nature Reserve in the Idle Valley in North Nottinghamshire.

Go to the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust at http://www.wildlifetrust.org.uk/nottinghamshire/

As well as using Long Horns, Dexters and Old English White Cattle to help manage reserves, the NWT own the largest flock of pedigree Hebridean sheep in the world.