Nevada Birding Highlights
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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 […]
Ma’ayan Peer
Ma’ayan (they/them) began as a self-described “bird skeptic,” but fell in love with birds during their mom’s 60th-birthday trip to the Amazon. Back home in California, they assumed the excitement wouldn’t translate—until owls, flickers, and other neighborhood species proved otherwise and sparked a deep, lasting passion. Raised in the Bay Area, Ma’ayan feels a strong […]
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Emmett Iverson
Emmett was born and raised in the land of Yellow-billed Magpies and Nuttall’s Woodpeckers—the Central Valley of California. His introduction to birding began with a gifted Sibley guide and his grandmother’s feeder in Maine. After becoming captivated by a Rose-breasted Grosbeak, he returned to California and discovered its west coast counterpart, the Black-headed Grosbeak. That […]
Sammy Cowell
A Southern California native, Sammy has always had an interest in wildlife and birds, compiling yard lists and lifers throughout his younger years. His passion for birding deepened in college after taking an ornithology course in northern Michigan and gaining his first research experience conducting point counts and transects. He spent a summer between undergraduate […]
