Feria Internacional de Turismo Ornitológico

FIO (Extremadura Birdwatching Fair)

FEBRUARY 24TH TO 26TH 2023

Jardín secreto

2022 Photography Contest
1st Prize FIO 2022 and category: Aves en su entorno
Winner: José Miguel Palao

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The XVIII Extremadura Birdwatching Fair - International Ornithological Tourism Fair (FIO) will be held from February 24 to 26 in the Monfragüe National Park. It will be the great meeting point in Spain for tourism related to nature and birdwatching, an activity in which Extremadura is a leader because of its natural resources and specialized tourism.

Organized by the Regional Government (Junta de Extremadura), FIO brings together the best in the sector: national and international tourist destinations (including a large representation of the Extremaduran products), specialized companies, manufacturers and distributors of photographic equipment and other optics, conservation associations, nature artists...

In addition to this there are activities for companies, such as the FIO B2B Professional Meetings, and an extensive programme that combines conservation and entertainment.

For three days there are conferences and colloquia on nature, tourism, art, cinema and photography, guided tours and birding viewpoints in different parts of the National Park, workshops for adults and children, entertainment shows, exhibitions, book presentations and a workshop for national and international companies specialized in nature tourism to meet local businesses.

All this programme in Monfragüe, one of the world’s meccas for birdwatching that is National Park, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and Starlight astrotourism destination.

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16,000 visitors in the 2022 edition

28 February 2022

The 17th edition of FIO received a total of 16,145 visitors, according to estimates from the Monfragüe National Park, which analyzes the entries of people per vehicle. This calculation is between the figures for 2020 (16,900 visitors) and 2019 (15,600). Last year it was held in virtual format due to...

Spanish photographer José Miguel Palao Quílez wins the first prize in the FIO 2022 contest

19 February 2022

Spanish photographer José Miguel Palao Quílez, with 'Jardín secreto', has won the first prize in the Nature Photography Contest 'Wild Birds', organized by FIO 2022. The winning image, in which a gray heron can be seen among cypresses on the Atchafalaya River (United States), was chosen by the jury from...

650 business meetings at FIO

18 February 2022

FIO promoted today the holding of 650 business meetings in its workshop, an activity aimed at professionals in nature tourism and bird watching. 29 buyers from Spain, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Portugal, the Netherlands and the United States and 69 sellers (companies from the Birding in Extremadura Club, travel...

Conference ‘Volcanic tremor’, by Carlos de Hita

16 February 2022

February 20th | 13:30-14:00 Stage Marquee A sound journey from the silence of the forests to the roar of the Cumbre Vieja volcano in La Palma. Carlos de Hita, sound technician and author of an extensive archive with the voices of the Spanish, African, Amazonian and Indian fauna as well...

mención de honor a ricardo lourenço (portugal) por ‘entorno del martín’ en ‘c2 aves en su entorno’

‘Winged images’, by Ricardo Lourenço (Portugal)

14 February 2022

February 19th | 16:15-16:45 FOTOFIO Marquee More than capturing a beautiful image, Ricardo Lourenço is interested in the story behind it. He is interested in the immediate beauty of the image, but also its message, what we get out of it and the emotions we feel when we see it....

Tribute to Joachim Hellmich, the Great Bustards’ German

11 February 2022

February 18th | 19.00 Stage Marquee In love with Extremadura and the birds of the steppes, with a special passion for bustards, Joachim Hellmich died of coronavirus in September 2021 in Germany. This ornithologist, Olympic athlete in his youth and a professor of Geography, arrived in Extremadura in 1980s. In...

Margaret Atwood talks about birds with Antonio Sandoval

7 February 2022

February 19th | 13.00-13.30 Stage Marquee Recorded exclusively for FIO 2022, the writer and ornithologist Antonio Sandoval speaks with the acclaimed Canadian novelist and poet Margaret Atwood, winner of the 2008 Prince of Asturias Award for Literature and honorary doctorate from several universities in Canada, the United Kingdom and Spain,...

‘How to draw restless birds’, an illustration workshop with Szabolcs Kókay (Hungary)

2 February 2022

Szabolcs Kókay is self-taught, with no formal artistic training. From the beginning the artists who have most influenced him are those who work outdoors, directly with nature. Field work motivates him a lot and it has left a mark on his art. He still remembers the difficulties and challenges that...

‘Painting birds of paradise’, by Szabolcs Kókay (Hungary)

2 February 2022

It all started with a commission to paint various groups of birds, including birds of paradise, for a Papua New Guinea field guide. In 2014, on a month-long expedition to that Oceanian country, Hungarian nature artist Szabolcs Kókay developed the work, which was followed five years later by a bird-watching...

‘How to make a good book better: the endless need to look again and again!’, by Killian Mullarney (Ireland)

2 February 2022

Killian Mullarney is internationally known as one of the authors of the best-selling European field guide of the last 20 years, the ‘Collins Bird Guide', first published in 1999, which he illustrated with Dan Zetterström. The 'Collins Bird Guide' is written by Lars Svensson and the late Peter J. Grant...