Iain Campbell
Iain grew up in Australia and spent his early adult life in Africa and South America looking for gold. After the epiphany, he moved to Ecuador, built Tandayapa Bird Lodge and co-founded Tropical Birding Tours. When not guiding, he is doing an ecology doctorate at the University of New South Wales. He has written A […]
Nicholas Newman
Nicholas Newman is a passionate and accomplished birder whose interest in birds and their behaviour was inspired by his father’s work in the field. At the helm of the Newman family business , Nick is committed to growing the community of birders via Kenneth Newman’s iconic stable of well-loved birding reference tools. With the mission […]
Keith Barnes
Keith Barnes, an owner of Tropical Birding, has birded Africa and the world far and wide. When the pandemic tried to stop him, he worked on a fieldguide to Greater Southern Africa, including Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique. Join us to learn more about it.
LO Chun Fai
LO Chun Fai is a birder based in Hong Kong, China. He graduated with a Bachelors degree in Biology and Masters in Environmental Health and Safety. He started birding in 2008 when he was a secondary student. With his passions for birding overseas, and active eBirding, he is one of the reviewers in eBird for […]
Paul Baicich
Paul J. Baicich has been an active birder since his early teens in New York City. His interests include bird conservation and policy, as well as studies in avian breeding biology, waterfowl ecology, and the practice of bird feeding over the decades. Among his many activities, he worked for the American Birding Association in multiple […]
Kerri Wolter
After working in corporate for a few years, I was desperate to find my soul that had been lost in an air-conditioned office. My colleagues were too scared to brave the great outdoors or even enjoy the duck pond which our offices with immovable windows, overlooked. I applied for a position as manager of a […]
Caroline Walta
Caroline (1971) was already looking at birds from her cradle. As a child, she wandered through the neighbourhoods of The Hague with her binoculars, the early days of ‘urban birding’. Now she regularly spreads her wings to help with bird conservation projects all over the world. She nursed penguins in South Africa, trained amazon parrots […]
Jess Lund
Jess is an evolutionary biologist and has been studying brood parasites – namely African Cuckoos, Greater Honeyguides, and Cuckoo Finches – for five years. She grew up on a farm in Limpopo, where her passion for birds began, and went on to do her BSc and Masters at the University of Cape Town. She is […]
Laura Kammermeier
Laura is the Marketing Manager for Birds of the World at Cornell Lab of Ornithology. She is a birder keenly devoted to birds and nature conservation and has a broad background in citizen science, marketing, and communications in the nature and travel industry. She led two large citizen science projects, including Project FeederWatch in the […]
Al Uy
Al Uy is Professor of Biology at the University of Rochester (NY, USA). Al was born and raised in the Philippines, moving to the US in his early teens. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and his doctorate degree from the University of Maryland at College Park. Before joining […]