Tuesday, 11 February 2025

Biking Birder Evening Talk Wigan RSPB Local Group PERU 2018 - Biking Birder IV


 

Biking Birder Evening Talk

Wigan RSPB Local Group

PERU 2018 - Biking Birder IV 

Wigan RSPB Local Group website

Tonight, at 7:45pm, I will be giving a talk about my Biking Birder IV - Peruvian Green Birding adventure.


This is a photo of my bike laden ready for the BBIV adventure.

I always cycle with cuddly toys and nowadays collect as many as I can for a toy recycling business called Toys4Life




Bike and Packraft, in 2018 I cycled from Lima to the Amazonian region, crossing The Andes.

Arriving in the Manu National Park, cycling down the world famous birding Manu Road, I gave my bike away to local indigenous children and packrafted down the mighty Madre de Dios river, a large tributary of the Amazon.

Push, paddle and plummet - my aim was to beat the number of bird species seen without using fossil fuel by the phenomenal Dorian Anderson. Dorian saw an incredible 618 bird species when he cycled around the USA.

Birding Under the Influence: Cycling Across America in Search of Birds and Recovery - Amazon Link

Dorian's book is a proud testimony, not only to his amazing cycling adventure but his will to conquer drug and alcohol addiction.

Did I manage to beat Dorian's World Green Birding record?

Six months of Green Birding adventure told in two hours.



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