Photo: Stephanie Foote
Biggest Day with David Lindo
SAVE THE DATE, Saturday, May 6, 2023!
David Lindo, The Urban Birder, is coming back to Ohio to participate in The Biggest Week in American Birding as a Keynote Speaker. However, he has decided to take a slight detour ahead of the festival to visit with his Cleveland friends. Please plan to join us on May 6th for Biggest Day with David Lindo! WCAS is planning events for the day, including:
- 9:00 a.m. Joint Bird Walk at Brighton Park with Western Reserve Land Conservancy. Bird Walk Leaders: David Lindo, Nancy Howell, Mary Anne Romito, Tom Romito, and Renee Boronka (Manager of Conservation Education & Outreach, WRLC). Registration required through WRLC. Space is limited!
- 12:30 p.m. Lunch with David at Market Garden Brewery in the Ohio City neighborhood. Registration required at Eventbrite. $5.00 per ticket gets you a seat at the table. You are responsible for your own food and drink. Space is limited! Don't miss this opportunity to hear David's birding stories!
- 3:00 p.m. Bird Walk at Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve. Bird Walk Leaders: David Lindo, Bill Deininger, Dave Graskemper, and Al Rand. Open to all! This is a free event, but we recommend registering in case communications need to be made. Register at Eventbrite.
- 8:00 p.m. Dinner with David at Sibling Revelry Brewing in Westlake. $5.00 per ticket gets you a seat at the table. You are responsible for your own food and drink. Space is limited! Don't miss this opportunity to say farewell to David and wish him much birding success at Magee Marsh! Registration required at Eventbrite.
David Lindo is The Urban Birder - broadcaster, writer, speaker, educator and bird tour leader. His mission is to engage city folk around the world with the environment through the medium of birds.
He has written countless articles on urban birds, urban conservation and wildlife in general for many websites, publications and magazines and has written the Forwards to several books. He is a regular television and radio presenter and has been featured on the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 in the UK as well as other TV and radio channels around the world including CBS in the United States.
David was recently named as the 7th most influential person in wildlife by BBC Wildlife Magazine and in 2020 was shortlisted for the Professional Publishers Association (PPA) Columnist of the Year Award. He sat as a judge for the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2021 and Bird Photographer of the Year 2021.
He is a Fellow of the International League of Conservation Writers and a member of the British Travel Writers Guild. He is the Founder of the Tower 42 Bird Study Group and Britain’s Vote National Bird Campaign in 2015 that resulted in over 226,000 votes.
He was awarded the prestigious HH Bloomer Award in 2021 by the Linnean Society of London and has a play based on his life as The Urban Birder currently being staged by Wroclaw Contemporary Theatre, Poland.
He is the author of The Urban Birder (Bloomsbury) 2011, Tales From Concrete Jungles (Bloomsbury) 2015, #Urban Birding (Kosmos) 2018, How To Be An Urban Birder (Princeton/WildGuides) 2018 and The Extraordinary World of Birds (DK) 2022.
He has written countless articles on urban birds, urban conservation and wildlife in general for many websites, publications and magazines and has written the Forwards to several books. He is a regular television and radio presenter and has been featured on the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 in the UK as well as other TV and radio channels around the world including CBS in the United States.
David was recently named as the 7th most influential person in wildlife by BBC Wildlife Magazine and in 2020 was shortlisted for the Professional Publishers Association (PPA) Columnist of the Year Award. He sat as a judge for the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2021 and Bird Photographer of the Year 2021.
He is a Fellow of the International League of Conservation Writers and a member of the British Travel Writers Guild. He is the Founder of the Tower 42 Bird Study Group and Britain’s Vote National Bird Campaign in 2015 that resulted in over 226,000 votes.
He was awarded the prestigious HH Bloomer Award in 2021 by the Linnean Society of London and has a play based on his life as The Urban Birder currently being staged by Wroclaw Contemporary Theatre, Poland.
He is the author of The Urban Birder (Bloomsbury) 2011, Tales From Concrete Jungles (Bloomsbury) 2015, #Urban Birding (Kosmos) 2018, How To Be An Urban Birder (Princeton/WildGuides) 2018 and The Extraordinary World of Birds (DK) 2022.
