About Your Tour Guide
Bob Buckler BSc (Hons)
Wingspan is hosted by Bob Buckler an experienced birder with over 30 years of field craft under his belt and over 15 years tour guide experience. He has travelled extensively in the UK. Spain, France and Greece and made birding trips to parts of the USA, Canada, Israel, Egypt and the Balearic Islands. Bob offers a casual approach to bird-watching and guides with an easy going, friendly nature. You are not lectured to or confused with too much “expert” knowledge, the trips are good humoured and suitable for beginners and accomplished bird-watchers alike.
Bob currently leads tours to several destinations in Spain and also to Morroco, Portugal and Lesvos, Geece. He operates his Wingspan business from a base in Somerset, UK but will be, in the course of the next year, permanently based in Spain, when a more extensive range of bird-watching holidays will become available.
Bob worked as a freelance tour guide for the Portland Heights Hotel, Dorset, England and for 10 years he led their successful weekend breaks. He has also led tours the length and breadth of Britain with American birders under the Wingspan banner and currently leads tours for Birdfinders Birdwatching Holidays to Greece and Spain. Bob took time out in the mid-nineties to attend a 3-year full time degree course at Southampton University where he graduated with an Honors degree in Environmental Sciences. Bob has a great depth of natural history knowledge gained from years of field study and he really enjoys passing on that knowledge to keen listeners.
