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Coley Turner
Coley recently earned a degree in Fisheries & Wildlife Science from Arkansas Tech University. She currently works for the U.S. Forest Service as a Wildlife Surveyor, with a particular emphasis on birds. This is her fourth field season working with birds in various capacities. From the prairies of northern Montana to the coasts of southern […]
Blake Halbert
Blake Halbert is a wildlife biologist with a special interest in birds and herpetofauna. He became a dedicated birder during his early college years and has been passionate about it ever since. Blake has worked as a field biologist conducting point counts, migration surveys, and eagle nesting surveys. Most of his birding experience is in […]
Chris Saenz
Christopher “Chris” Saenz is a Port Aransas local whose passion for birding began just five years ago—but has grown with remarkable speed. After attending a “Birding on the Boardwalk” program one morning, he took one look at a Whooping Crane and a White-faced Ibis through a spotting scope and was instantly hooked. That single experience […]
Clayton Leapold
Clayton grew up in a small rural community just north of Victoria, Texas, where wildlife—especially birds—captured his attention from an early age. Many of his formative hours were spent on the back porch watching the feeders, slowly learning the rhythms and residents of his local patch. He went on to earn two degrees from Texas […]
Cameron Johnson
Cameron was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, where he spent his childhood seeking out pockets of wildlife in an otherwise urbanized landscape. The awe he felt watching immense migratory flocks of Snow and Ross’s Geese sparked what would become a lifelong passion for ornithology. Since then, he has dedicated himself to exploring birdlife and […]
John Groskopf
A true Floridian, John was born and has lived in Florida his entire life. While he has always been drawn to birds—his mother says his first word was “bird”—he began seriously birding in late 2017. Since then, he has traveled extensively throughout the peninsula, searching not only for Florida’s birds but also for the unique […]
Eryn Woernley
Eryn is originally from Ithaca, New York, where she developed a deep interest in birds through the area’s vibrant local birding community. A lifelong nature lover, she spent her childhood wandering the woods, trying to get as close to wildlife as possible. She quickly came to appreciate how birds bring people together from all walks […]
