Since childhood I have been interested in ornithology, particularly the migration of birds.
Valencia, the Mediterranean city where I grew up, sits along a busy migration flyway described by Reginal Moreau in his classic The Palaearctic-African Bird Migration Systems. From a complex systems perspective, I am interested in the climatic, political, economic, social and cultural dynamics that intersect with the ecology of migrant bird populations, from heat waves in Europe, changing wind patterns in the Atlantic, and depopulation of rural areas in Spain, to how farming households in the Sahel organise themselves economically to secure their livelihoods.
I created the website Tales from the flyways to highlight the multidimensional character of the Palaeartic – African bird migration system.
Launched in 2023 it remains temporarily inactive.
Website: Tales from the flyway
Articles based on fieldwork observations and scientific ringing
Article: The timing of departure of Reed Warblers from northern England. Ringing & Migration 2020.
Article: Magnificent Frigatebirds chasing a butterfly: foraging or playing? Dutch Birding 40: 90-91, 2018.
Article: Audouin’s Gulls scavenging on the beach. British Birds 110: 176-177, 2017.
Article: Spanish national inventory on road mortality of vertebrates, Global Biodiversity 5:15-18, 1996 (journal of the Canadian Museum of Natural History).
Short note: Dies, B., Caletrío, J. (1989) Observaciones de alcatraces con plumaje atípico. Boletín del Grupo Ibérico de Aves Marinas, 5 (primavera): 3.
Valencia Bird Report: In 1988 I co-founded the Valencia Bird Report and co-edited the first issue that year.
