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 […]
Paul Turyagumanawe
Paul Turyagumanawe is a Lawyer by profession and a Tour Guide by Occupation. He specializes in the Range-Restricted Highland birds of the Albertine Rift. For six years, he has been guiding tours in Uganda, Rwanda & Eastern Congo, and currently runs Safari Support Services Limited. He’s also a Certified Tour Guide instructor with the Directorate […]
Abia Atukwatse
Abia is a female Nature guide in Uganda specializing in birds and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Science, Technology and Management. She is passionate about a healthy environment as well as changing lives for the better. Abia is the current secretary to the Uganda Women Birders and has been bird watching since childhoo d […]
Dr. Kelsey McCune
Kelsey McCune completed her PhD in animal behavior from the University of Washington in 2018. Her dissertation compared asocial California scrub-jays and social Mexican jays on social behavior, learning ability and personality traits. Currently, Kelsey is a postdoctoral scholar at UCSB, and part of the Grackle Project research group started by Dr. Corina Logan.
Dr Dayo Osinubi
Dr Dayo Osinubi is an avian behavioural ecologist who enjoys exploring the “how” and “why” questions in nature. He started his career in Nigeria and considers himself fortunate to continue travelling the world learning about birds. His academic background includes a postdoc at the Fitzpatrick Institute of African Ornithology in Cape Town, South Africa; a […]
Dr Krista Oswald
Despite not necessarily being a birder (I didn’t even own proper binoculars), I completed an Honours BSc studying Tree Swallows through Dalhousie University in Canada, and an internship with the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center. Life was leading me down the ornithological path, and I wasn’t exactly upset about the idea. In January 2015 my flight […]
Martim Melo
Martim Melo is an evolutionary biologist based at CIBIO (Research Centre in Biodiversity) and the Natural History and Science Museum, both from the University of Porto, and a research associate at the FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology at the University of Cape Town. He is in the steering committee behind the recently created Gulf of […]
Rita Fortuna
Rita is a behavioural and evolutionary ecologist from Portugal. She studied Biology at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (Portugal) and joined The Sociable Weaver Project as a Master student in 2015. After graduating, Rita worked for 3 months as a field assistant on a project on Iberian magpies in Spain, after […]