The Birding World Comes to Rutland
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What is the Get Birding episode about and where are the hosts visiting?
I'm Sean Bean and this is Get Birding in collaboration with Swarovski Optic.
What are we seeing?
There's a pink boy that looks like a flamingo.
That would be cool. That would be very cool.
Go ahead and assume it's not a flamingo.
In this episode, the Get Birding team are headed to Rutland Water and the Global Bird Fair, where Dr. Myrose Craig will be on the ground meeting birders and conservationists.
It's fun to come to a place where you're just surrounded by thousands of other people who are really into wildlife and nature and you're like... dive into the weeds, and it's cool.
Yeah, it is.
And it's completely normal to be like, oh, there's a cool butterfly.
Yeah, it's like kind of everyone here is kind of a massive nerd, but in the best way possible. It's so fun.
The atmosphere here is very positive, and I want people to go away believing that actually, yes, they can make a difference.
We'll also spend time with Tim McCrill and Tim Sexton from Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust to learn about the pioneering Rutland water osprey project.
We've seen well over 300 chicks raised through the project and ospreys have now become established on pretty much every corner of the UK.
And we know that quite apart from just being a single species it plays a key ecological role but also It inspires people about nature, and that is what we need at the moment. We need people to be inspired by nature so that they want to protect it.
And we'll be hearing from the BTO's John Carter about a very special cuckoo.
He's definitely, rather appropriately, the most northern of all our cuckoos. So not only was he ringed in the far north, he's also the furthest north at the moment.
Known by many as the birders Glastonbury, the Global Bird Fair has been bringing bird lovers together since 1989. Each year thousands gather from all over the world to discover the latest binoculars, cameras, books and artwork, hear from leading voices in conservation and share stories from the field. It's a meeting place for everyone, from first-time birders to lifelong experts. To tell us more, here's the Global Bird Fair founders, Tim Appleton and Penny Robinson, who sat down for a conversation with our producer, Hannah.
I think Tim should go first.
Okay, fine.
How did the Global Bird Fair start and what conservation impact has it had?
He started it.
It's his fault. Okay, fine. So my name is Tim, Tim Appleton, and I've been in this area for nearly 40 years or more because I came into the area initially. I used to work for Sir Peter Scott in Slimbridge as deputy curator, and a wonderful job came up in 1975 to actually create this reservoir reserve, which is at Rutland Water. The dam was being built at the time. So there was this great opportunity to do a rewilding thing, if you like, a habitat crater on a scale never actually done in Britain before. So that was great. And by about 1992, it had become an internationally important wildflower sanctuary. And from there, it went on, et cetera, et cetera. But a little while after I'd been here, probably about six or seven years, I went to a thing called the Game Fair.
Now, the Game Fair, for people who don't know about it, is basically a fair for activities in the countryside, from shooting to fishing, et cetera, et cetera. But there's nothing for conservation. And I thought, well, if you can have a game fair, and I'm into birds, we could have a bird fair. So that's really the history of how it got its name and how in 1989, we held the first bird fair anywhere in the world. I do it because I'm totally passionate about conservation, raising money for areas around the world that desperately need the sort of money that we can raise.
Every penny of the organisers' profits goes to BirdLife International, supporting bird conservation projects around the world.
We do not and have never raised money in the UK for many reasons, because we know quite rightly that the pound that we raise can probably do three times what it can do in the UK. Over nearly four decades,
How were ospreys reintroduced at Rutland Water and why was translocation chosen?
Visitors have helped raise millions of pounds to protect birds and the places they depend on.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the Get Birding episode about and where are the hosts visiting?
0:06–2:44
2
How did the Global Bird Fair start and what conservation impact has it had?
2:44–4:38
3
How were ospreys reintroduced at Rutland Water and why was translocation chosen?
4:38–5:32
4
Why does the Global Bird Fair focus fundraising on international BirdLife projects?
5:32–10:13
5
What are the behaviours and seasonal needs of Rutland's breeding ospreys?
10:13–17:24
6
Which birding gear innovations and accessibility trends were highlighted at the fair?
17:24–21:44
7
What has satellite tagging revealed about the cuckoo named 'Bean' and cuckoo migration routes?
21:44–24:24
8
How does Rutland Water serve as a conservation success story and source of hope?
24:24–29:35