Isaiah Clark
Isaiah Clark began birding along the Mississippi River in Minnesota with his father around the age of twelve, receiving early inspiration from his great-uncle, naturalist and horticulturist Thomas Ogren. At the same time, Isaiah was developing an interest in visual art, and many of his earliest birding memories involve sketching birds from photographs and field […]
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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 […]
