Charlie Ayers
Charlie Ayers began birding when he arrived at college and joined the school’s Birding Club. He originally entered college intending to specialize in amphibian disease ecology, but his life took a different turn on a cold March evening along the Blue Ridge Parkway. He and a few club members set out to watch the mating […]
North Carolina
John Lynch
John was born and raised in North Carolina, where he earned his B.S. in Wildlife Biology and began building a career as a field biologist working across a wide range of species and habitats. Although his experience spans everything from bats to salamanders, birds have always been his greatest passion. Much of John’s ornithological work […]
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 […]
Patrick Maurice
Patrick Maurice was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, and graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in Wildlife Science in 2021. He credits his lifelong passion for birds to his mother—also a birder—who introduced him to the outdoors at an early age. One of Patrick’s earliest birding memories is seeing Georgia’s first […]
