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 […]
Kyle Matera
Originally from New York, Kyle moved to Florida in 2007 to attend college on the Gulf Coast and has lived in Palm Beach County since 2011. He began birding casually in 2015, and it quickly grew into a full-fledged obsession. Over the past decade, he has become deeply familiar with Florida’s avifauna—especially in South Florida […]
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 […]
Nell Smith
Nell’s early fascination with natural history in Maine sparked her love of birds, but she didn’t begin birding in earnest until moving to Arizona in her twenties. Since then, she has made up for lost time, birding everywhere from the Midriff Islands of the Gulf of California to the Arctic tundra of Alaska’s North Slope. […]
