Lee G. R. Evans

Who is Lee G. R. Evans?

Lee Geoffrey Richard Evans is a British birder, author on rare birds and bird tour leader. He lives in Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire with his partner Carmel Pentecost.

Evans is a twitcher. He is one of a number of birders who have seen over 500 species in Britain and Ireland; however his principal interest is British Isles yearlisting, where he aims to see over 300 species of bird in the wild in Britain and Ireland each year.

Adrian Webb is recognised as seeing 383 species in 2000 which he proved through witnesses and video evidence. Doubts have remained over the fairness of a person who is a twitcher policing the lists of others twitchers, as Evans proclaims himself as "Judge, Jury and Executioner". During the Twitchers programme Lee states that he has lived his life like George Michael.

Evans has often been seen as a controversial figure in British Twitching and writs have been made regarding the comments he has made.

Evans has been described as a self-appointed gravver of British Twitchers for policing the lists of other twitchers and one of his rivals has described this as "It's like putting Dracula in charge of the national blood transfusion service,"