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 […]
Freya McGregor
Freya McGregor, OTR/L, CIG is the Birdability Coordinator and Occupational Therapist. Birding since childhood, her ‘dodgy’ knee often creates an accessibility challenge for her. With a background in blindness and low vision services, she is passionate about enabling all birders and potential future birders to enjoy birding and nature as much as she does.
Ground-hornbill researchers
Dr Kyle-Mark Middleton and Carrie Hickman are researchers at the FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town – Kyle as a post-doctoral fellow and Carrie as a PhD candidate. Since 2016, they have co-managed the APNR Ground Hornbill Project, dedicating their work to uncovering the complex ecology and behaviour of this iconic species. […]
Denis Li
Born and raised in Mauritius, Denis Li initially went to Toulouse, France to study medicine but in the end, found himself in biology and ecology, earning a master’s degree in biodiversity management. After an internship with the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, he decided to pursue a career in conservation, saving endangered species (instead of people) in […]
Professor Daniel Germer
Professor Daniel Germer is a Biologist, currently teaching Zoology and Research related courses at UPNFM, Honduras´s Pedagogic University. Originally trained as a botanist, he stumbled upon birds in 2006 during his Senior year of College and since then has worked in the promotion of Birdwatching as a way of life, passing on the hobby to […]
Ivan Phillipsen
Ivan is a professional naturalist guide with a background in scientific research. He recently launched a podcast called The Science of Birds. Ivan has loved animals and nature his whole life. His first obsession was with amphibians and reptiles. This interest led him to graduate school, where he studied amphibians. After earning a Master’s degree in […]