Tour Guide Profile: Peter Roberts
Peter Roberts is based in Britain, lives on the Scottish island of Islay and has been a keen naturalist since childhood. His tour-leading work over the past 35 years has taken him to nearly 100
countries worldwide from Antarctica to the Arctic and to all seven
continents.
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-ringing 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. Peter has an MSc in woodland invertebrate ecology and published
research on various subjects from feeding ecology of fruit bats to bird
migration, identification and behaviour through to ecology of seabirds
and Red-billed Choughs. Extensive travel studying wildlife in Africa
and Europe includes leading over 20 specialist safaris to Tanzania and
designing our Spain Birding Tour and leading it with his colleague
Alberto Bueno on 19 previous occasions. While birds are his main interest, close contenders include
whale-watching, the big game animals of Africa, snorkelling and the
study of insects.
