Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust Chairman has shared a detailed statement outlining the factors that led to the difficult decision to end our involvement with Birdfair.
Please read the full statement here: bit.ly/30XFgCr

📸Amano Samarpan

We regret to announce that due to the continuation of COVID restrictions deeply impacting UK and International travel, public health and the safety of our visitors and exhibitors, we have decided not to host Birdfair at Rutland Water Nature Reserve this year.

Hey! The Virtual Birdfair website will now be available until the end of December - that's another whole month for you to see all that fabulous material!
virtual.birdfair.org.uk
Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust RSPB The Wildlife Trusts RSPB Birders BirdGuides BirdLife International

Virtual Birdfair may be over, but my talk (and others) will still be available to watch for three months! I discuss the origin and survival of modern birds across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. virtual.birdfair.org.uk/index.php/frid…

Birdfair Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust RSPB The Wildlife Trusts RSPB Birders BirdGuides BirdLife International Thank you so much for everyone involved in making the Virtual #Birdfair so successful.
And thank you for making all the talks available to watch for the next few months. There is so much fabulous content there - I am looking forward to enjoying and sharing it all!

Birdfair Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust RSPB Thank you for #VirtualBirdfair It was great to be able to watch the lectures. And I have lots of talks yet to watch.
Looking forward to the real thing next year.

THANK YOU to everyone who took part in this year's first ever Virtual #Birdfair - we hope you enjoyed it! What was your favourite part of the event? Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust RSPB The Wildlife Trusts RSPB Birders BirdGuides BirdLife International

The winners of the #Birdfair Canon UK and Ireland photo competition are... Age 9-10: Slow Worm by Thomas aged 10; Age 11-13: Bee by Ben aged 13; Age 14-17: Butterfly by Callum aged 17. CONGRATULATIONS to all our winners! Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust RSPB BirdLife International The Wildlife Trusts

Just retweeting this again because we loved all your replies! #Birdfair

Thank you for your donations to this year's BirdLife International project, saving the Helmeted Hornbill. If you haven't donated yet - you can do so here virtual.birdfair.org.uk #Birdfair Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust RSPB The Wildlife Trusts RSPB Birders BirdGuides

Still to come at Virtual #Birdfair - we'll be announcing the winners of the Canon UK and Ireland photography competition shortly! Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust RSPB

Well, that's the last LIVE session at this year's #Birdfair done! We hope you've enjoyed the last SIX days of Virtual Birdfair. Remember, all the talks will be online for 3 months + the live ones were recorded & will be on our website next week. Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust RSPB

If you were watching our Virtual #Birdfair Careers Clinic & were wondering where the great Conservation Careers webinars & resources were - they're linked from the bottom of this page virtual.birdfair.org.uk/index.php/care… #conservation #careers Birdfair

The answer to the final #Birdfair puzzle: You'll be able to watch all 150+ talks & sessions on the Virtual Birdfair website for... Three months! The only exception is the Last Song of the Nightingale film which is online until 20 Sep.

Glad you found it useful Sam! And good luck with what will no doubt be an amazing conservation career! #Birdfair