ABOUT DAVE...

I am a professional, freelance, birdwatching and wildlife guide living in Nethybridge in the Scottish Highlands. I have been interested in nature, wildlife and travel for as long as I can remember, encouraged by my parents  from the beginning and by many others along the way. For example, at the age of 14 I was sponsored by The  Wharfedale Naturalists Society in Yorkshire  to visit Shetland and Fair Isle... the beginning of my travels! After finishing Art College in Leeds I returned to Shetland to work as a summer warden for the RSPB. This led to other conservation contracts in the Highlands and islands for the RSPB and Scottish Natural Heritage, bringing me to Speyside in 1983 where I have been based ever since.

I have travelled extensively around the world pursuing my interests, and have instigated expeditions to Morocco (to locate the wintering grounds of Dotterel breeding in the Cairngorms) and Paraguay (looking for Red Data species, and co-finding the second ever recorded nest of Helmeted Woodpecker). Closer to home I was the first to identify the first British record of Short-billed Dowitcher, and found the first Stellers Eider in britain for 16 years (at Hopeman, November 2000).

CONTACT...

     dave@davepullan.co.uk

     +44(0) 1479 821718