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 […]
Rick Nuttall
Rick Nuttall has been sharing his knowledge and passion for birds with like-minded people from a young age. His MSc degree involved behaviour studies of waxbills and their close relatives (Estrildid finches). Rick joined the National Museum, Bloemfontein as Ornithologist in 1991, undertaking research for ten years before his appointment as Director, a position held […]
Noam Shany
Noam Shany is a passionate bird watcher who has traveled to more than 100 countries to assemble a world list that ranks among the top 25. He works as an consultant, specialized in development of rural communities with an emphasis on ecotourism and experiential tourism. He worked for many years with the government of Peru, […]
Sascha Dueker
Sascha Dueker is a conservation biologist with a fascination for parrots ever since his childhood. He says “they are among birds what the primates are among mammals: highly intelligent and charismatic”. He began to focus on African parrot conservation 5 years ago with an African Grey Parrot Psittacus erithacus conservation project in SW Cameroon during […]
Dr Corwin Sullivan
Corwin Sullivan is a vertebrate palaeontologist with the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum in nearby Wembley. His research interests centre on the diversity, functional morphology and evolution of dinosaurs and their close relatives. Much of the research currently being done in his lab focuses on the Cretaceous […]
Judith Mirembe
Judith is a well-trained bird guide and the chairperson of the Uganda Women Birders, an initiative to increase the number of women in nature guiding, specifically bird watching – a male-dominated profession. She has been bird watching since her early ages and started leading bird watching tours in 2017 and is among the few women […]
Faraaz and Derek
Faraaz Abdool and Derek Keats are responsible for most of what goes on behind the scenes on Learn-the-Birds. Faraaz is an internationally published freelance conservation and wildlife photographer/writer who specializes in birds and the issues they face worldwide. He is also the author of a book, well illustrated with his photographs, entitled “Casual Birding in […]
Eladio Fernandez
Eladio Fernandez is an iLCP Associate Fellow, a naturalist, researcher, and an author from the Dominican Republic. He has an extensive image bank on Caribbean flora, fauna and landscapes and his work includes underwater subjects, as well as vanishing cultural rituals and practices from the Caribbean. He has co-authored the field guide Birds of the […]
Dr Gabriel Jamie
Gabriel Jamie became interested in science as a child through watching birds, first in Cape Town and then in the United Kingdom. This has resulted in a life-long avian obsession that has led him to fieldwork on birds in many places around the world. As a teenager he worked on projects studying migratory birds in […]