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Central Portugal 10 – 17 April 2010

Leaders

Domingos Leitão works for SPEA, the Portuguese BirdLife partner, and alongside this is a holiday leader in his home country. One of his SPEA roles in 2008 was to run, jointly with the Portugal Tourism Board, a conference promoting nature tourism at which Honeyguide’s Chris Durdin was a speaker. That’s where we planned this new holiday.

Rob Macklin is the RSPB’s area manager on the Suffolk coast, covering Minsmere and NorthWarren among several nature reserves. His rare appearances in the Honeyguide brochure are deceptive: he is well travelled in Europe, but as a leader usually with our regular groups from the Salisbury & District Natural History Society. He was so keen to see Portugal’s cork oak forests that he seized on the chance to go on our recce for this holiday, and looks forward to returning.

Domingos Leitão

Rob Macklin