Peter Roberts
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Upcoming Tours
- Aug 25, 08: Western Turkey Birds and History
- Jan 18, 09: Mali: Road to Timbuktu
- Jan 25, 09: The Rivers of West Africa
- Feb 22, 09: Northern Tanzania
- Mar 08, 09: The Seychelles
- Apr 24, 09: Spring Birding in Central and Northern Spain
- May 23, 09: Kazakhstan
- Jun 05, 09: Uzbekistan - Extension from Kazakhstan
- Aug 05, 09: Southern Britain: Birds and History
- Oct 29, 09: Northern Tanzania: Usambara Endemics Pre-trip
- Nov 03, 09: Northern Tanzania
- Apr 23, 10: Spring Birding in Central and Northern Spain
- May 08, 10: Spring Birding in Bulgaria
- May 30, 10: Mongolia
- Jun 23, 10: Spitsbergen: Polar Bears, Walruses, and Ivory Gulls
- Aug 03, 10: Southern Britain: Birds and History
Recent Posts
- Jun 16, 08: Scotland in Style 2
- Jun 16, 08: Scottish Islands Cruise
- Jun 16, 08: Scotland in Style 1
- May 28, 08: Spring Birding in Central and Northern Spain
- Mar 14, 08: Northern Tanzania
- Sep 28, 07: Western Turkey: Birds and History
- Mar 13, 07: Northern Tanzania
- Sep 08, 06: Western Turkey: Birds and History
- Aug 22, 06: Southern Britain: Birds and History
- May 30, 06: Spring Birding in Central and Northern Spain
Peter Roberts is based in Britain, lives in the north of Scotland, and has been a keen naturalist since childhood in London. While birds remain his main interest, close contenders include whale-watching, the big game animals of Africa, snorkeling, and the study of insects. A varied, lifelong career has included conservation and wildlife-related work from nature reserve management and teaching wildlife field courses to ornithological survey and research, environmental consultancy, and work for the UK government's Department of the Environment. Wardening the bird-banding station on the Welsh island of Bardsey for seven years, and a year managing the Aldabra Research Station in the Indian Ocean stimulated a passion for seabirds and islands. His work has taken him to archipelagos worldwide from Antarctica, Falklands, Juan Fernandez, Galapagos, Hawaii, Seychelles, and São Tomé north to the Shetlands, Pribilofs, and Aleutians. Peter has an MSc in woodland invertebrate ecology and has published research on various subjects from the feeding ecology of fruit bats to bird migration, identification, and behavior, and to the ecology of seabirds and Red-billed Choughs. Tour-leading for over 30 years has now become virtually full-time and resulted in travel to over 75 countries on all seven continents, concentrating in particular on the birds, history, and wildlife of Europe and Africa.