Nicholas B. Pattinson
Nick has been a member of the Hot Birds Research Project for 9 years, studying temperature-related effects on the physiology and behaviour of birds. Currently, he is in the process of completing a PhD in Biological Sciences at the FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology. He is also a full time research scientist at the environmental […]
Dr Mark Brown
Dr. Mark Brown is an ornithologist and conservationist based in Plettenberg Bay, South Africa. With over 25 years of experience, he has conducted extensive research on avian physiology, pollination ecology, and the conservation of nectar-feeding birds. He has published over 100 scientific papers and is a recognized expert in the field. Mark has supervised over […]
Faansie Peacock
lives and breathes birds, as his name suggests. Faansie started birding at the age of five and has been trying to quit for 35 years. It doesn’t look like that’s going to happen anytime soon, so now he makes a living as what he calls ‘a professional birder’. He has authored and illustrated a number […]
Bill Montevecchi
Bill Montevecchi is a John Lewis Paton Distinguished University Professor [Psychology, Biology, Ocean Sciences] at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. He and his students study avian responses to environmental change. Conservation is a priority with research projects aimed at bird interactions with marine and terrestrial energy developments, light pollution, fisheries, climate change and recently […]
Tania Ireton
Tania has been passionately interested in birds for half a century and used her day job in computing to fund her birding trips. These trips have taken her to New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Sumatra, Hong Kong, South Korea and New Caledonia, although her primary interest has always been Australia and its territories. She has […]
Adam Scott Kennedy
Birding since the age of four, Adam travelled extensively across the world from his family home in the UK in search of birds, animals, culture and amazing places. He took his first independent overseas trip at the age of 17 and hasn’t stopped since. He has led dedicated birding trips to New Zealand, Madagascar, Ecuador […]
Chintan Gohel
Chintan Gohel is an Electrical Engineer, working full time in a factory in Nairobi, Kenya. In his free time, he shows a passion for photography in different genres such as wildlife, birds, astro, landscapes, long exposures and more. He is the founder of a local travel group called Matembezi Travelers Club with over 1100 members. […]
Lauren James
Lauren James is a young South African botanist, passionate about the natural world and understanding how the interactions between organisms and their environment have produced the biodiversity we have today.
Dr. Melissa Whitecross
Dr Melissa Whitecross is BirdLife South Africa’s Landscape Conservation Programme Manager and is responsible for coordinating this environmental NGO’s threatened and endemic terrestrial sites and species conservation work.
Prof Adrian Craig
Adrian Craig is a retired professor of zoology, who spent his working career lecturing at Rhodes University in South Africa. He has also given many talks to school groups and other audiences. His research has always focused on African birds, involving field studies, museum specimens, and historical records. Apart from formal scientific publications, Adrian has […]