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| Dr. Javier CEBALLOS (Madrid, 1966) • Member of the “Heritage Cultural and Natural Experts Network” of the CEI International Excelency Campus (Spain, 2010) • Ministry of Culture’s Delegate for Falconry (Spain, 2009) • In 2007 he received his PhD from the Politécnica University of Madrid. His award-winning doctoral thesis was entitled “Falconry in Spain: historical evolution of the use of the Falconiformes species in falconry; arguments for its backing and considerations for its management” • He holds a degree from the Castilla-León Government that qualifies him for assessing the environmental impact of projects • Coordinator of Outdoor Activities (conferred by the Regional Government of Madrid,1995, and the Regional Government of Castilla-León, 2007), and Senior Instructor in Environmental Education (conferred by the Regional Government of Castilla-León, 2007) • Master on Environmental Management, 1996 by the Ecology Researchs Institute (IIEE, Málaga, Spain) • Bachelor degree in Geology by means the Complutense University of Madrid (1993) Dr. Ceballos is a well-known photographer, author and lecturer about Falconry. He is the author of the out of print book on introduction to Falconry “Soltando Pihuelas, Conocimiento y Práctica de la Cetrería” (Editorial Cairel, 2002): a 375-page large format volume, illustrated with more than 400 pictures (350+ original works of Dr. Ceballos). Also he is the author of the International book “Falconry; Celebrating our living Heritage” a 304-page large format volume supported by the UAE Government. This book, published both in English and in Arabic, is officially presented to UNESCO in order to illustrate Falconry as a Human Living Heritage. In the world of documentaries he devised, wrote and directed the TV documentary Allies of the air. This two-part series, broadcasted several times on a number of TV stations, deals with the indigenous practice of falconry in four continents. Dr. Ceballos also wrote (with Dr. Nick Fox as a co-writer) and directed the documentary “Falconry; Our Intangible Cultural Heritage”, commissioned by the Environment Agency of Abu Dhabi (EAD) for the benefit of the UNESCO delegates who met in Paris, in June 2008. He has published many articles on birds of prey, and made verbal contributions both in national and international forums. Javier has been heavily involved with the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage ADACH in the UNESCO’s falconry multinational submission. Recently, in the Symposium Heritage & Education: Future Vision (Abu Dhabi March 29 to April 1, 2010), he has presented his paper “Enhancing the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Falconry by means of Education”. Since 2008 he collaborates as a Research Associate of The Archives of Falconry (TAF) with its siege in Boise, Idaho, United States He has published hundreds of photographs of birds, and was the main photographer for the encyclopedia Fauna ibérica de Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente (a 12 cd-rom collection edited by El Mundo, TVE and Dinamic Multimedia. Dr. Ceballos is a member of a number of Associations related by Falconry, Environment and Photography, such as: the Spanish Society of Ornithology (SEO-BirdLife) since 1982, the Spanish Association for Falconry (AEC) since 1985, the Spanish Association for Falconry and Conservation of Birds of Prey (AECCA, formerly AEC) since its creation in 2001, the Official College of Spanish Geologists (ICOG), since 1993), Spanish Association of Nature Photographers (AEFONA), Founder member, 1993, British Falconers’ Club (BFC) 2002, Emirates Falconers’ Club (EFC) 2005, Spanish Royal Society of Natural History (RSEHN) since 2007. An important part of his work focuses on passing his knowledge and passion of falconry and birds in general to those, young and old, who may not have had the opportunity to experience wildlife and wild places up close. Through the company, Avium, www.avium.es where he is director, he brings expert and novice birdwatchers, adults, families and children together to further explore the world of birds through photography, bird watching and falconry. Using his skills as an educator, he trains teachers in environmental issues. Steadily since 1992 up to the actuality, organizes every summer the ADAJA summer youth camp, which is dedicated to teaching young children about our natural world. (Castle of Castilnovo, Segovia, Spain www.campamentoadaja.com) At the university he collaborated in two academic courses as teacher of practices of the subject of geophysical prospecting, in the faculty of geologic sciences. At present he is guest teacher of falconry in the Forestry Engineers School of the Politécnica University of Madrid. By means of Avium it is provided with an Agreement of Educational Cooperation with IE University (Spain). |
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Dr. Francisco José Purroy IraizozHe has been involved in wildlife research and conservation for more than four decades, has been a member of the Steering Board of SEO-BirdLife for more than 25 years, and Chairman of that NGO from 1988 to 1998. At present he is Professor of Zoology in the Biodiversity and Enviromental Management Department of the Biological Sciences Faculty at the León University, where he has directed 19 Doctoral Theses. His main research areas are: - Studies on bird communities in forest and farming areas. - Natural history of threatened vertebrate species (Great Bustard, Cantabrian Western Capercaillie, Middle Spotted Woodpecker, Brown Bear, Atlas Leopard). - Game species management of both sedentaries (Red-legged Partridge, Grey Partridge, Roe Deer, Boar, Iberian Hare) and migrants (Common Wood Pigeon, Eurasian Woodcock). He is a member of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) Bears Group, and of the Terra Natura Foundation. He has written scores of articles and books among which we should mention the following (all of them in Spanish): Endangered fauna species of Navarra. Ed Ediciones y Libros. Pamplona. Purroy, F (1974). Birds of our countryside and woodlands. Ceballos, P & Purroy, F (1977, 1981, 1991 and 2005). Atlas of birds of Spain (1975-1995). Editor (1997). Guide to the mammals of Spain. Purroy, F & Varela, J. Lynx Ediciones, 2003. Woodland and terrestrial vertebrate fauna in Spain. A P Clevenger, Francisco José Purroy Iraizoz, A Álvarez. Ecología (1990), 1: 349-364. ISSN 0214-0896. Natural area conservation in El Bierzo. Francisco José Purroy Iraizoz. Estudios bercianos (1989), 11: 29-33. Breeding and wintering bird species in birch woodlands of the Cantabrian mountain range. L Costa & Francisco José Purroy Iraizoz. Munibe: Ciencias Naturales (1989-1990), 41-42: 101-105. ISSN 0214-7688. Seasonal evolution of the Cabrera Island (Balearic Islands) bird communities. Estanislao de Luis Calabuig & Francisco José Purroy Iraizoz. Studia ecologica (1981), 1,1: 181-224. ISSN 0211-4623. Present status of the Cantabrian avifauna and measures to be taken for its conservation. Luis Costa & Francisco José Purroy Iraizoz. Estudios sobre la montaña (1987): 281-292. Actas de las Jornadas de Riaño (1 al 4 de noviembre de 1984). Historic and natural heritage of Castilla and León. Purroy Iraizoz & De Rivera Blanco. Ediciones Leonesas Edilesa: 1997, 2006. He has recently been awarded with the SEO-BirdLife major distintion: the Francisco Bernis Ornithology Award.
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D. Aurelio Pérez Gómez (Barriomartín, Soria, 1935). He is one the most representative figures among the Spanish field naturalists in the last fifty years. A son of peasants and cattle-raisers, he had to give up schooling when he was 10 to become the shepherd of a herd of 250 sheep. He drove mares from his birth-place village to Villanueva del Fresno (Badajoz), thereby becoming a traditional nomadic herdsmen (a transhumante). He had his first encounters with the wolf while grazing sheep in Badajoz province. He worked in farming and building until, through a relative working in Barajas Airport of Madrid, he met Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente. This is when he began his career as a professional falconer, devoted to the control of birds affecting air traffic in several Madrid and Barcelona airports. Aurelio is credited with a remarkable career as an environmental instructor through his collaboration in the making of nature documentaries and in environmental education centres. He coordinated the team of naturalists involved in the TV series El hombre y la Tierra (1974-1980), directed by Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente. In fact he was the key-man in filming a great deal of the most renowned sequences of this mythical series. He also participated as a nature consultant in well-known movies such as those directed by Mario Camus (Los Santos Inocentes, La Forja de un Rebelde and Sombras después de una Batalla), or Francisco Reguerio (Madre Gilda), where he even succeeded in training a flock of jackdaws (Corvus monedula) and a red-billed chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax). With regards to fauna documentaries we must also mention his participation in the TVE series directed by Joaquín Araújo (Silencio Roto, La Nave Tierra y Ciencia y Vida), and in other productions such as that of the Compañía de Inventarios Naturales (El Universo Escondido, El Paraíso Encontrado), Ecofor (Osos y Madroños) and that of the film-maker and photographer Joaquín Gutiérrez Acha (El Latido del Bosque, Las Montañas del Lobo). A committed environmentalist, he always addresses his speech to the youth. In this respect, his remarkable contribution to the creation and working of Environmental Education Centres (Centro Cañada Real, in Madrid, Centro de Educación Ambiental de Riopar, in the Albacete province, Centro El Vado de los Fresnos, in the Ávila province) is noteworthy. An excellent conversationalist and extraordinary communicator, he has lectured all over the country and has been granted awards and homage in all the Spanish Autonomous Communities. He is co-author of the Environment Ministry and FIDA’s Manual para el Manejo de Animales Heridos. In acknowledgement to his career, both as a naturalist and as a man who has led a remarkable life, the FIDA foundation has recently published his memoires.
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D. Rodrigo García-Siguero (Madrid, 1976) has ample experience in raptor species management at different levels. He is an active falconer who has practised both high-flight and low-flight falconry (goshawks for hunting hares and falcons for partridges) for a long period of time. His birds have won several championships, and he usually appears among the ten best falconers in the country. Recently he has added a male Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos daphanea) to his bird collection. He has used a wide variety of bird species in public flight exhibitions. He began as a Jesús Ayala disciple, first in Tenerife (Águilas del Teide Park) and then in the Zoo-Aquarium of Madrid. He has been the head of the birds of prey training team at the Madrid Zoo for 5 years (2002-2007). He has also succeeded in breeding species such as the Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus brookei) in captivity. Recently he has been named Head of Bird Management in the Madrid Autonomous Community’s programme for the breeding and reintroduction of large raptor species, which is led by GREFA. These birds include the large Imperial Eagle (Aquila adalberti), Bonelli’s Eagle (Hieraetus fasciatus) and the Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), and the carrion eaters Griffon (Gyps fulvus), Monk or Black Vulture (Aegypius monachus) and Egyptian Vulture (Neophron pernocpterus). Furthermore he is engaged in population control programmes for pigeon and other locally harmful species.
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Dña Gema Solís Fraile (Madrid, 1977) with a degree in Biology (specializing in Zoology) from the Complutense University of Madrid (2003), Gema finished her Doctorate studies (2005) working in the Conservation Biology Programme (Complutense University of Madrid), and winning a Diploma for Advanced Studies (DEA) with her research Interspecific differences in birds when starting to sing at dawn, which was directed by Natural Science National Museum (MNCN)’s Dr Diego Gil. A passionate lover of nature in general and of ornithology in particular, she has participated in various species counts organized by the Spanish Society of Ornithology (SEO-Bird-Life), as well as in bird ringing campaigns. She has also collaborated with the Natural Science National Museum (MNCN) in several studies of bird, amphibian and mammal population-monitoring. Therefore she has gathered ample experience in radio-tracking and ringing techniques, collection and preservation of biological samples and bird sound recording. With regards to educational aspects, at present she is an instructor in the Luis Ceballos Arboretum, that is included in the Madrid Regional Government’s Network of Environmental Education Centres, which is visited by people of all ages. Since 2003 she has worked in several institutions and has been involved in activities related to environmental awareness as an instructor in summer camps (Campamentos ADAJA, Castilnovo, Segovia), workshops and in the Natural Science National Museum (MNCN). With regard to her background as a researcher, from 2002 to 2005 she worked in the Natural Science National Museum (MNCN)’s Zoological Sound Archive, first as a collaborator and later as the head of collections. Afterwards she worked for two years in a project related to diseases in amphibians, while continuing her collaboration with the Zoological Sound Archive. Her work in the Museum has yielded numerous communications in national and international congresses on Ornithology, Herpethology, Etology, Taxonomy and Bioacoustics as well as various scientific papers.
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D. Jorge Hernández Justribó Bachelor of Biology (Zoology) from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1998), he is a senior bird-ringer. He is working at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Ecology Department (Biology Faculty) as a member of the team involved in the Conservation status of Dupont’s Lark in Spain project, which is being carried out in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment since 2004. He has studied the bird population present in the area chosen for the construction of the Don Quijote Airport and has also studied the bird population of the Campo de Calatrava Special Protection Zone for wild birds (SPA). The studies were undertaken by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in collaboration with C.R. Aeropuertos SL (2004-2007). He has also carried out the following fieldwork: - A faunistic study of the Lesser Kestrel colony at Villa de Vallecas-Hospital de Vallecas. UTE (2007). His papers include: Jesús T García, Francisco Suárez, Vicente Garza, Jorge H Justribó, Juan J Oñate, Israel Hervás, María Calero & Eladio L García de la Morena (2007). Distribution and population size of the threatened Dupont’s Lark Chersophilus duponti in Morocco. Oryx (in press). Jesús T García, Francisco Suárez, Vicente Garza, María Calero-Riestra, Jorge Hernández & Javier Pérez-Tris (2007). Genetic and phenotypic variation among geographically isolated populations of the globally threatened Dupont’s Lark Chersophilus duponti. Molecular Phylogenetics and evolution (in press). Seoane J, Justribó JH, García F, Retamar J, Rabadán C & Atienza JC (2006). Habitat suitability modelling to assess the effects of land-use changes on Dupont’s Lark Chersophilus duponti: A case study in the Layna Important Bird Area. Biological Conservation 128: 241-252. (In English) Atienza JC, Pinilla J, Justribó HJ (2001). Migration and conservation of the Aquatic Warbler (Acrocephalus paludicola) in Spain. Ardeola 48 (2), 199-208.
His reports include (all in Spanish): Conservation status of Dupont’s Lark in Spain. Final report, 2007. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Ecology Department. In collaboration with the Ministry of Environment. Conservation status of Dupon’s Lark in Spain. Fourth report, 2007. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Ecology Departament. In collaboration with the Ministry of Environment. Study for assessing the impact of the Vallecas New Hospital project on the Villa de Vallecas Lesser Kestrel colony. 2007. H. Vallecas. UTE. Monitoring the birds in the surroundings of the planned Don Quijote Airport and Campo Calatrava SPA. December 2004, March 2005 and January 2007 reports. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Ecology Department. Agreement with CR Aeropuertos SL. Conservation status of the Lesser Kestrel in the Madrid Autonomous Region. Unpublished report, 1999. SEO/BirdLife. Conservation status of the European Turtle Dove in Madrid. Unpublished report, 1999. SEO/BirdLife. Within the scientific field (all in Spanish): Francisco Suárez, Jorge H Justribó, Juan J Oñate, María Calero-Riestra, Vicente Garza, Israel Hervás, Javier Viñuela, Javier Pérez Tris y Jesús T García. Paleogeography and conservation status of Dupont’s Lark in Northern Africa, 2007. Quercus, 263: 26-34 (in Spanish). Jorge H Justribó, 1999. Birds ringed with rings marked “Museo Ciencias Naturales” in 1987. Revista de anillamiento, 4: 12. JC Atienza & JH Justribó, 1999. Bird ringing in Madrid: Passeriformes. In De la Puente J, Bermejo A & Seoane J. Anuario Ornitológico de Madrid, 1999: 86-95 (in Spanish). Jorge H Justribó & JC Atienza, 1999. Bird-ringing evolution in Spain. Revista de Anillamiento, 4: 29-31 (in Spanish). Presentations given at conferences: The Aquatic Warbler in Spain, 1997. TenthRingers meeting. Málaga, Spain (in Spanish). Correction method of ringing effort, 1999. 100 years Bird Ringing Conference. Helgoland, Germany (in English). Evolution of the body condition of the Reed Bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus) in Central Spain during the Winter, 1999. Eleventh Ringers meeting. La Coruña, Spain (in English). Reed Bunting’s 1999 winter date records. Eleventh Ringers meeting. La Coruña, Spain (in Spanish). Ringing of Passeriformes in Spain, 1999. Eleventh Ringers meeting. La Coruña, Spain (in Spanish). Lesser Kestrel’s hunting habitat selection in the Tierra de Campiñas SPA, Castilla-León. Oral presentation in the 5th National congress on Lesser Kestrel. Toledo (Spain), 2001 (in Spanish). Impact of fences on Lesser Kestrel distribution. Oral presentation at the 5th National congress on the Lesser Kestrel. Toledo (Spain), 2001 (in Spanish). Feeding habitat selection of the Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni) in the Llanos de Cáceres and Sierra de Fuentes SPA. COLLABORATIONS - Teacher at bird-ringing workshops for children and adults. Naturávila SL. SEO-BirdLife. - Courses introducing ornithology and bird ringing. SEO-Alectoris. - Instructor on ornithological trips. SEO-Alectoris. - Participation in ringing programmes: Ringing of Passeriformes in Doñana, Barn Swallow ringing programmes, Passer project... - Atlas of Spanish breeding birds. SEO-BirdLife. - Atlas of Spanish wintering birds. SEO-BirdLife. - SACRE project. SEO-BirdLife. - Counting and ring reading control of the Lesser Kestrel at Los Monegros and of White Stork at the Strait of Gibraltar.
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