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Nick Greatorex-Davies has led our Butterfly tour since 2003. From 1995 to
2006 Nick was co-ordinator of the Butterfly Monitoring Scheme based at the
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology at Monks Wood, Cambridgeshire, where he worked
from 1974 to 2009. From a young age his main natural history interest has been
British Lepidoptera (including more recently microlepidoptera), and in recent
decades European butterflies, supplemented by a strong interest in botany. |
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Peter Carty is currently the nature reserve warden of 2500 hectares at
Long Mynd and Wenlock Edge in Shropshire. He has worked as a warden for 26
years, in a variety of different areas including the Sefton Coast in Merseyside,
Sandscale Haws in Cumbria, Aride Island in the Seychelles and Egilsay in Orkney.
He is a keen birder and an enthusiastic observer of plants, reptiles,
amphibians, dragonflies, butterflies and mammals. His friendly and easy manner
has made him a popular tutor to first-time birdwatchers. |
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Petar Iankov is one of the best known experts on Bulgarian birds and bird
areas,and together with the British-Bulgarian Friendship Society, one of the
pioneers of birdwatching tourism in Bulgaria. He was a founder member of the
Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds in 1988, he is a nationally and
internationally renowned ornithologist and former member of the BirdLife
International European Committee and Global Council. Petar was appointed the
President of the BSPB in 2008. |
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Assen Ignatov works at the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia.
He has worked with BBFS tours for many years. He is a very experienced and
knowledgeable guide, as well as being a gifted artist and excellent
photographer. His wonderful drawing of the Wallcreeper has appeared on all our
tours publicity since 2007! |
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Tihomir Stefanov is an experienced tour leader and wildlife photographer.
He works at the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia as a Head of
Department. His main research topic is taxonomy and phylogeny of freshwater
fish, but he is also an enthusiastic naturalist and a very keen birdwatcher. He
has worked on environmental projects such as the development of a National
Biodiversity Monitoring System in Bulgaria and the preparation of the Bulgarian
Natura 2000 network of protected zones. |
