I am 20 years old and have been birding all my life. My local patch is Chew Valley Lake and I also go ringing there. I have some brilliant birds on my "birds I have seen but was too young to tick" list like Black Lark when I was 18 months, which mum says that I pointed at and shouted "birdy!", my fourth word. I year listed in the UK in 2009; I wanted to try and see 300 birds in Britain and to beat my mum (which I did!). I loved doing so much birding in 2009. I kept a great notebook that year. My sister, Ayesha, saw 400 birds in the UK when she was still 12 years old - I wanted to beat that and saw 400 birds in the UK when I was 9 years and 5 months. I love world birding, seeing the birds, the conservation projects and meeting indigenous peoples. In August 2019, age 17 year old, I became the youngest person in the world to see half the birds of the world, which was a Harpy Eagle. It was a bird I had really wanted to see from when I was 8 and visited Ecuador. When I was 7, I set myself a goal to go to all the continents before I was 15 which I was lucky enough to do when I was 13. Fighting against biodiversity and climate breakdown is something really important to as is ensuring equal access to nature for all/