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His mother, aware of his fascination with birds, started taking him to RSPB reserves. “She’d be sat reading a book in the corner,” he remembers, while Yassin would question the birdwatchers, “just absorbing all their information. They were just amazing men, full of knowledge, that saw this young kid who was interested in birds, and they just kind of took him under their wings, like, ‘Right, son, have you got a pair of binoculars? No? Use these.’” He is still in touch with some of them, he says (Yassin, I suspect, collects friendships like other naturalists collect shells or feathers). “It’s really beautiful that their love of wildlife rubbed off on me. I had that interest already, but it just sparked from there.” Around the same time, he was also given his first camera. Because they’re the charismatic ones, most likely to get people hooked! If I started talking about the lesser-spotted warbler from Africa, you might go, ‘Boring, next!’– even though they’re just as important in the food chain as eagles. People relate to birds of prey better and they’re everywhere – if you look. You might think you can’t see peregrine falcons in urban areas, but there’s a nest next to Big Ben - slap, bang in the middle of London! You don’t need to be in the remote Scottish Highlands, where I live, to see these phenomenal predators – although they look pretty wonderful there too!" What else will we see in the film? With so much experience in his field, Hamza started working on The One Show as one of their wildlife cameraman, leading him to land his own CBeebies show and Let's Go For A Walk companion book. He can also be spotted on Countryfile and ITV's This Morning, and has filmed and presented Channel 4 shows Scotland: My Life in the Wild and Scotland: Escape to the Wilderness. If humans weren’t on this Earth, the planet would keep on spinning and nature would keep doing its thing. Yes, right now, we are the ones causing this issue – but to be honest, it’s a handful of people. I moved from Sudan to the UK when I was eight and the first time my parents turned on the TV I saw David Attenborough talking about birds. Then I watched him in those fantastic gorilla scenes and thought, ‘I want to be him! Or his cameraman’. Steve Irwin inspired me too. I remember him saying, ‘Crikey, that crocodile nearly ripped my arm off - isn’t she a beauty?’! That was it – the passion of Steve and the grace of Attenborough – my two natural history idols. I knew I wanted to work with animals." Why are you focusing on birds of prey for this film?
Yassin filming for the TV programme Scotland: My Life in the Wild. Photograph: Hamza Yassin/Hamza Yassin Photography He embraced the weather, too. “I love the cold. In Sudan, I used to get daily nosebleeds because I overheat. Hence, why I love going to the Arctic to film.” He treated his new classmates with as much curiosity as they did him. “I remember there was a kid I was looking at, really perplexed, because he had blue eyes, blond long hair. I’m going: ‘I’ve never seen anything like that.’ We became good friends.”
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Yes, you say in the documentary ‘people are awesome, humanity is amazing’, which is a refreshing take… In July 2022, Hamza received a Master Honours Degree from Bangor University, which one of his idols, Sir David Attenborough, has also received in the past. Yes, and I wanted to show positivity. The human race is doing some good stuff with rewilding and conservation, let’s celebrate that! Okay, previous generations have caused a mess, but we’re cleaning it up - kids have taken up the baton. Humanity is ace, it’s beautiful, and with education we’ll conquer the global warming fight." Finally Hamza, what’s next for you? Strictly star Hamza can't wait for Scotland's home crowd roar". BBC News. 2 February 2023 . Retrieved 4 February 2023. In this beautifully illustrated guide, featuring fifty of Hamza’s favourite birds, you will learn how to start identifying birds, understand their behaviour and movements, and find even more exciting birds, wherever you are. Starting with the goldfinch in your garden, to tawny owls in woodlands, to the elusive kingfisher near rivers and marshes, you will build your birdwatching confidence and push yourself further afield to find new feathered wonders.
Hamza now lives in a remote rural village on the west coast of Scotland called Ardnamurchan, where he's not only surrounded by wildlife, but has rare creatures living with him too - in fact, European pine martens have set up their home in his attic! Jowita and Jody Cundy will pair up this season (Picture: PA) Who do you think will win this year’s Strictly?Hamza Ahmed Yassin (born 22 February 1990) is a British wildlife cameraman and presenter, known for his role as Ranger Hamza on the children's television channel CBeebies and his work on shows such as Countryfile and Animal Park, as well as presenting programmes about Scottish wildlife. [1] In 2022, he won the twentieth series of the BBC contest Strictly Come Dancing.
Hurtful, hard, like concrete but also the soft, silky, smooth, cool pillow that you lay your head on. It’s like birds singing in the morning with the aurora going over your head at night. That’s love for me. Hamza will discuss his life behind the lens at this year’s New Scientist Live on Saturday, October 7 On the Somerset Levels, on a beautiful summer morning, the first rays of light gently warm the wings of thousands of dragonflies. This proliferation of insect life attracts one of our smallest and most agile birds of prey – the hobby. This pint-sized predator catches its dragonfly prey on the wing and cameraman Simon King explains how incredibly agile these birds are. Yassin is single: is it hard to meet someone, living so remotely? “In the village, yes,” he says, though he does a lot of travelling for work. “But my job doesn’t really allow for a relationship. How can you sustain a relationship, like: ‘I’m sending you a text message from a satellite phone, because I’m in the Arctic for two months.’ It’s more of a job kind of problem, rather than a place, though the place definitely adds to it.” Jowita Przystał and Hamza Yassin performing a tropical salsa during the final. Photograph: Guy Levy/PAEvery week I though we were going to go out, and every week you could see the relief on my face! Jowita had the faith, I didn’t. I just wanted to give it my all and say we’d left everything on the stage. You’re prime minister for the day. What’s the first thing you do? Hamza Yassin spoke to What To Watch about his long-time love of birds, what we should expect from the new film, and some of his biggest inspirations. Where did your fascination with birds begin? Yassin is a Scottish wildlife cameraman, zoologist and presenter, whose first TV appearance was on CBeebies’ “Let’s Go for a Walk”. Since then, he’s made appearances on “The One Show”, “Countryfile” and “Animal Park”, and presented his own documentaries on Channel 4, including “Scotland: My Life in the Wild” and “Scotland: Escape to the Wilderness”. He was the podcast host of the second series of “Get Birding” and is currently a contestant on BBC One’s “Strictly Come Dancing”. His journey takes him from the wilds of Scotland to the heart of Ealing Borough in Greater London. Along the way, he meets a host of old friends, dedicated conservationists and fellow filmmakers, whose love for the natural world shines through.
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