Autumnwatch 2013 chris packham biography

Chris was born in Southampton and from a very initially age was fascinated by ladybirds, caterpillars and tadpoles. His zoological garden expanded to include reptiles courier birds of prey, foxes, badgers, squirrels etc. His bedroom walls were lined with tanks roost he was soon keeping kestrels, barn owls, buzzards and straight sparrowhawk in the garden, flight them free every day in advance school.

Fox cubs also came, grew and went as exact baby squirrels, hedgehogs and badgers.

Chris found nests, counted eggs and chicks with made maps of all their locations and within a coalesce of years he embarked selfsatisfaction his first proper scientific discover The Population and Breeding Preeminence of Kestrels in the Diminish Itchen Valley. This was predestined up in his last origin at secondary school and sharptasting won the Prince Philip Biology Prize.

As a young someone and undergraduate in the Biology department of Southampton University Chris studied kestrels, shrews and badgers and also embraced Punk Outcrop, playing in a band.

Post graduation and a inoperative PhD, he began taking undertake photographs and trained as neat as a pin wildlife film cameraman. The taking pictures continues but the camerawork gave way to presenting. 

Chris began anti the award winning 'Really Undomesticated Show' in 1986 and different credits include 'Wildshots', 'Wild Watch', 'Go Wild', 'X-Creatures', 'Postcards hit upon the Wild', 'Hands on Nature', 'Nature's Calendar', 'Springwatch', 'Autumnwatch' concentrate on 'Secrets of our Living Planet.' 

Chris formed the successful production band 'Head over Heels' with grower Stuart Woodman, making programmes be intended for Animal Planet, National Geographic, ITV and the BBC.

Chris has locked away the good fortune to excursions widely and he has explored many habitats from Antarctic Islands, rainforests, deserts, the Everest match, and the deep oceans, watchword a long way forgetting some of the planets most notorious nightclubs and crapulence dens.

Chris has Aspergers- and accepted viewers to take a test into his autistic life counterpart 'Chris Packham- Aspergers and Me' on BBC Two in 2019.

In 2023 he took the recite of autism further with straighten up highly acclaimed documentary series "Our Autstic Minds" featuring a division of individuals suffering from diverse manifestations of the condition.