Eliana Pool
Growing up in Oregon, Eliana spent years surveying and monitoring birds across the Pacific Northwest. Her work blends traditional field skills with modern survey tools, shaped by long days in the field and a habit of slowing down to really watch what birds are doing. That instinct started early. Chance encounters with iconic species like […]
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 […]
Oregon Birding Highlights
Southern OR
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
OR Coast
Western OR
