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Learning to differentiate the vocalisations of birds is usually, for birders, a more arduous task than learning the visual keys for their identification. In this workshop, some guidelines will be given with which to optimize this learning and the sounds of some bird species will be played, which subsequently will be listened to live on a walk through the countryside.
José Carlos Sires was born with vision problems, although that did not prevent him from being fascinated by nature from his earliest childhood. He was attracted to the shapes and colours of fungi and mushrooms, but at the age of six he lost his sight completely and that magical world was closed to him. Everything seemed lost until, at the age of ten, his music teacher played a cassette with bird sounds in class and that was an instant inspiration for him. In 2014 his father gave him a tape recorder with which he discovered his true vocation: to record sounds of birds and landscapes in which he intends to capture the overwhelming beauty and variety of nature.