Alex Trifunovic
Alex was born in eastern Iowa, where his early childhood exploring the prairies, wetlands, and forests of the Upper Mississippi River Valley formed the foundation of his fascination with the natural world. By the time he was five years old, he was already keeping a notebook of wildlife observations and searching for new birds on […]
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Quinn McMahon
Quinn McMahon is a lifelong birder and avian field ecologist specializing in the bird communities and habitats of the Pacific Northwest. Raised in the Puget Sound area, he began birding sometime between the ages of five and ten after his father gave him a small book on North American raptors. That early gift set him […]
Max McClarnon
Max grew up in southern Oregon’s Rogue Valley, where a childhood spent exploring forests and creeks sparked a lifelong fascination with the living world. He originally specialized in reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates, but everything changed after taking a college ornithology class—he caught the birding bug, and birds have been at the center of his naturalist […]
Eric Pratt
Eric was born and raised in Corvallis, Oregon, where a love for birds developed early thanks to the influence of his parents and grandparents. By the age of ten, he had memorized The Sibley Guide to Birds, and soon after began using eBird—a tool that has shaped his birding journey ever since. He then lived […]
Braydon Luikart
Braydon was born and raised in Montana, where his fascination with wildlife began early. By age eight, he was already keeping a notebook of his daily wildlife observations—a habit that foreshadowed a future deeply rooted in field biology. Trips to South Africa in 2018 and Australia in 2019 expanded his curiosity, and birds gradually moved […]
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