GUIDES
(alphabetical by last name)
Seth
Benz has served as Assistant to the Curator at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary,
director of Hog Island Audubon Camp, and is the current director of
Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park's Bird Ecology Program.
In his current role, Seth coordinates citizen scientists' efforts
to monitor bird migrations, pelagic seabird concentrations, and biodiversity
and phenology observations in the Acadia Region. He is a current American
Birding Association Youth Birding Mentor and has recently completed
a three-year term on the Maine Bird Records Committee. Seth and wife
Sue reside in Belfast, Maine with their Australian Shepherd rescue
pooch, Beazie.
Chris
Brown has been an active birder from a very young age; he maintains
that among his earliest memories is the first bird he identified without
use of a field guide: a Brown-headed Cowbird in his suburban New Jersey
backyard, around the age of 5. After beginning his college career
at the University of Montana, Chris took several years to gain experience
through biological field work. This chapter of his life led him through
jobs in 10 states and with multiple bird observatories, including
breeding bird surveys in Montana, bird and habitat surveys in several
other Rocky Mountain States, breeding bird atlas work in Ohio and
counting migrating hawks and seabirds in Cape May and Sandy Hook,
New Jersey. He is now a professional guide with Wildside Nature
Tours.
Bridget Butler, aka The Bird Diva, has been working in conservation
for more than 20 years throughout New England. Through her business
Bird Diva Consulting, she delivers presentations, leads bird outings,
and brings her signature program Slow Birding to a broader audience.
Bridget has worked for the Audubon Society in Vermont, Maine, New
Hampshire, and Massachusetts and helped create Audubon Vermont's Forest
Bird Initiative. Bridget's Slow Birding work has been featured on
a number of birding podcasts in the US and abroad. She serves on the
Green Mountain Audubon Society Board and is a member of the Vermont
Rare Bird Records Committee. She feels it's important that the birding
community continues to strive to diversify what it means to be a birder
and that this variety of perspectives will bring a richer set of strategies
to bird conservation. Bridget lives in St. Albans, Vermont with her
husband and three young children.
Anne
Dalton was born and raised in Portland Maine and graduated from
Brigham Young University with a degree in Animal Science. She has
spent most of her working years raising boys with her husband Greg
on Mount Desert Island since 1991. Soon after moving, she discovered
she had a family history on the island dating back to some of the
original settlers. Anne has been an avid birder since 1987 when her
brother arrived from Utah with a new obsession to share. Anne is currently
working as a school counselor at Tremont Consolidated School where
she started a birding club for kids and tries to promote the benefits
of finding joy in the outdoors. Other interests include, golf, boating,
biking, hiking- anything that takes her outside where the birds are!
Seth Davis grew up in Oregon, where he spent much of his time
outdoors in the woods behind his house. Having always had a curiosity
about nature and biology, Seth pursued a career in science, and he
is now a post-doctoral research associate in the Department of Neuroscience
at the University of New England. Seth’s spark for birding came while
hiking at a reservoir near his apartment in Colorado and seeing a
Mountain Bluebird for the first time. It was at this point that he
recognized there was far more to the world of birds than the sparrows
and finches that frequented his feeders! Since moving to Maine in
2015, Seth has been active in the birding community, and he currently
serves on the Board of Directors at York County Audubon. Seth also
eagerly serves as co-coordinator of Maine Young Birders Club, through
which he enjoys sharing his love of birds and nature with the young
members of Maine’s proud birding community.
Molly DellaRoman studied environmental science in both college
and graduate school. She had always been interested in birds since
a young age and after taking Cornell's Spring Field Ornithology course
in 2004, she has been a very active birder. She has been an organic
farmer in MA since 2006 and bought an organic orchard with her partner
in 2017 in Brooklin, ME. They have been enjoying birding all over
the Blue Hill Peninsula and MDI.
Dotty Holcomb Doherty has recently moved to New Hampshire from
Maryland's Chesapeake Bay and is thrilled to be back in her native
New England. An ornithology class at Earlham College launched her
love of birds and an internship at Manomet cemented it. As a science
teacher, journalist, writer, guide, and photographer, Dotty has always
made birding part of her life. Eco-travel has taken her all over the
world to photograph wildlife which she shares in a daily blog email
to over 300 people.
Jonathan Doherty is one of many whose interest in birds started
with an ornithology course at Earlham College. He has been birding
ever since, still traveling with other Earlhamites to explore the
world of birds. Jonathan is retired from a long career leading landscape
scale conservation in the six-state Chesapeake Bay watershed, the
Columbia River Gorge, and at a number of national parks. He also has
a business making fine chocolates!
Bob
Duchesne became interested in birds in the first grade. Interest
grew to passion and today Bob is one of Maine's top birding experts.
He is a board member for Maine Audubon's Penobscot Valley Chapter
in the Bangor area. Bob is a frequent tour leader and has led trips
from Atlantic Canada to the Florida Everglades. In 2009, Bob completed
development of the Maine Birding Trail and has authored a guidebook
for the state, published on Down East Books. He currently writes a
weekly birding column for the Bangor Daily News. Bob served six terms
in the Maine House of Representatives, and now serves on the state
Board of Environmental Protection.
Toni
Evans divides her time between Brookeville, Maryland and Goose
Cove, Maine. She is happiest out of doors and loves every aspect of
the natural world. She got hooked on birding at Earlham college where
she graduated with a BA in Biology. As a teacher she helped lead student
trips to the Peruvian Amazon multiple times. She has traveled throughout
the US, Galapagos, Kenya, South Africa, Europe, Panama, and Ireland,
bins at the ready. She likes to say that birding is like Christmas
morning, there's a gift waiting every time you go out.
Dan
Gardoqui is a bird-curious mammal with a playful, engaging affect
and over 30 years of studying bird language, wildlife tracking, and
nature connection. He is a Certified Wildlife Tracker and Registered
Maine Guide, and served as Science Faculty at Granite State College
and the University of New Hampshire. Dan was the science & audio editor
for What the Robin Knows and is well-known for his uncanny bird mimicry
skills and his Learn a Bird series on YouTube. He currently runs Lead
with Nature, where he offers nature-based consulting services and
educational guide services.
Michael J. Good, MS. Biologist/naturalist, President of Down
East Nature Tours in Bar Harbor, Maine and Founder of Warblers and
Wildflowers Festival (1998-2007), Acadia Birding Festival (2008-present)
and the Penobscot Watershed Eco Center, Bar Harbor. He has over 30
years experience studying the birds of North America and brings a
wealth of knowledge about Neotropical migrants and the avifauna of
the Eastern United States. Michael has traveled extensively in the
US, Alaska, Europe, Australia, South America and Cuba. He is a regional
business leader promoting sound ecologically practices in business,
government and land development. A Registered Maine Guide, Michael
has been guiding professionally for many years through his company
Down East Nature Tours focusing on avian ecology in the Gulf of Maine.
In his spare time he maintains Three Pines Bird Sanctuary in Town
Hill, Maine, studying micro-habitat of Neotropical migratory birds
on Mount Desert Island, Maine and winter ecology in various Neotropical
countries when given the opportunity.
Julia Hanauer-Milne is a lifelong birder who does not remember
a time Before Birds. Her parents fostered that interest with their
active feeders and appreciation of the birds who visited in New Jersey,
Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. Julia has lived in Maine now for
33 years, currently in Sidney. A teacher and writer, Julia has shared
her love of birds with students for the past 25 years through bird
walks, projects, and citizen science. A Fund for Teachers fellowship
in 2017 allowed her to bird in the Peruvian Amazon and to help her
students learn how birds connect Maine with other parts of the world.
Billy
Helprin Billy is the Director of the Somes-Meynell Wildlife Sanctuary
(right behind Festival Center in Somesville). Before working for the
Sanctuary, Billy was the Mt. Desert Island Steward for Maine Coast
Heritage Trust, managing Preserve properties and monitoring many conservation
easements. He has a Master of Science degree from Utah State University
and a Master of Arts in Teaching. Billy has enjoyed leading wildlife
explorations and studies in the Rocky Mountain region for Great Plains
Wildlife Institute, the Teton Science School, and Abercrombie and
Kent; and in Kenya for the School for Field Studies. He has been involved
with avian research and inventory projects in Ohio, Maine, Wyoming
and Guatemala. Whenever possible, Billy enjoys getting out with friends
or on his own to see and hear which bird species are nearby and what
they are up to.
Glenn Hodgkins has spent a lifetime observing the natural world
in Maine. It wasn't until his daughter started identifying birds as
a toddler, however, that he dove into birding. Twenty-four years later,
he and his daughter remain passionate about birds and birding. Whenever
possible outside of his day job as a research hydrologist, he's out
birding locally and regionally in Maine. Glenn volunteered extensively
over the last 5 years for the Maine Bird Atlas, in both the breeding
and winter parts of the atlas. He also leads local and regional birding
tours, mostly for the Augusta Birding Club, and enjoys seeing people
get excited about birds. Glenn has also volunteered in recent years
for the Finch Research Network, working on recording calls of the
different Red Crossbill types.
Zachary Holderby is originally from Washington state. He has a
BS in Wildlife Ecology from WSU and an MS in Wildlife Ecology from
Texas State University. His masters research involved studying the
ecological and reproductive differences between polymorphic Reddish
Egrets in coastal Texas. He has done bird survey work in Colorado
and SE Arizona, as well as conservation projects involving Sage Grouse
in Nevada/Oregon, Blue-Fronted Amazons in Argentina, Blue-Throated
Macaws in Bolivia, and Red Squirrels in the Yukon. He was a biologist
for NPS in Channel Islands National Park in 2018 doing fox tracking,
bird surveys, mouse grids and herp surveys. The last three summers
he spent employed as a Maine Bird Atlas and Breeding Bird Survey Technician.
Zach is a Maine Registered Guide doing kayak trips out of Stonington
Paddle in Stonington, Maine. He loves hiking, photographt, backpacking
and getting out and seeing new bird species and learning their different
behaviors.
Lee Hoy is a wildlife, landscape, macro, and night sky photographer
based out of the Davis Mountains in west Texas. In addition to being
the owner of Big Bend Birding & Photo Tours, he also serves as the
lead photography workshop instructor for Wildside Nature Tours and
is an adventure photography workshop instructor for Precision Camera
& Video in Austin and Houston, Texas. He loves to teach workshop participants
how to capture outstanding nature images and to blend photography
and an amazing experience into one. He speaks at photography and birding
festivals around the country and when not traveling loves to enjoy
the night sky and wildlife in his own 18 acres of paradise on top
of a mountain in west Texas. He is one of seventeen US and Canadian
OM System Pro Ambassadors and loves sharing the amazing features and
capabilities of the OM System. Finally, he hosts a nature photography
podcast “Capturing Nature with Lee Hoy.
Tiffany Kersten is a full time bird guide in the Rio Grande Valley
of Texas. She has been birding since age 12, when she witnessed a
field of sandhill cranes courting in a Wisconsin cornfield in the
spring. She holds a degree in Wildlife Ecology from Northland College,
and her career has led her to monitoring birds and interpreting migration
in various corners of the country, including New Jersey, Massachusetts,
and Hawaii. Tiffany is the owner of Nature Ninja Birding Tours and
also is a Field Tech for Swarovski Optik. In 2021, she completed a
Lower 48 Big Year and beat the previous Big Year record. Her mission
was to bring awareness to women and safety by gifting personal safety
alarms and working to make birding a safer space for women (tiffanykersten.blogspot.com).
Craig Kesselheim is a recently-retired educator living in Southwest
Harbor on MDI. He has been birding ever since he was hooked by a college
ornithology course in 1973. Craig birds and travels elsewhere in North
America whenever possible, but has been Maine-based for about 25 years.
David Lamon is the Manager of the Fields Pond Audubon Center
in Holden, Maine. His background is a mix of environmental conservation,
restoration, and education. David has worked as a National Park Service
Ranger, teacher, and non-profit conservation professional conducting
environmental research and restoration projects with common loons
and sea-run fish.
Alex Lamoreaux has been an avid birder and naturalist his
entire life. The ubiquitous Red-tailed Hawk was his spark bird and
continues to be his favorite bird today! Alex has been a nomadic biologist,
working in multiple countries and in dozens of US states for over
15 years before settling into full time bird-guiding as a senior leader
and North America specialist for Wildside Nature Tours. Alex's love
for nature shines through in his ever-enthusiastic approach to guiding,
and he strives to bring the birding community together to conserve
and protect wildlife.
Adrian
Lesak has been a birder since childhood and fondly recalls the
early mornings of spring migration; birding while delivering newspapers
until the school bell rang. He has studied forest songbird communities
for the US Forest Service in Washington and in Master's and PhD research
in Alabama and Wisconsin, respectively. As part of the Eagle Optics
sales team for 5 years, then the Vortex team for several years, and
now with Zeiss optics, he has gained extensive knowledge and field
experience with the latest the sport optics industry has to offer.
Adrian enjoys the challenge and reward of pairing birders with the
right optics to help them enjoy the pursuit and the passion for birds
and birding he shares with them.
Don
Lima has been an avid birdwatcher ever since his grandfather first
gave him a pair of binoculars at age 8. He pursued his passion of
wildlife and the outdoors at the University of Maine, Orono, where
he received his B.S. in Wildlife Management in 1986. He soon began
a career that has, so far, spanned 32 years with the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service (USFWS), which has allowed extensive opportunities
to live, travel and bird all over the U.S. Don has conducted restoration
projects in grassland and saltmarsh habitats, waterfowl banding for
the USFWS and Black Duck Joint Venture, point count surveys, and was
an active member of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s, Partners
for Wildlife Program. His greatest passion is continuing to share
his love of birds, wildlife and being outdoors with his sons.
Kyle Lima is an ecologist and data analyst with Schoodic Institute
at Acadia National Park where they work to inspire science, learning,
and community for a changing world. His first birding trip in 2012
sparked his love for birds and defined his future career. He obtained
a degree in wildlife ecology from the University of Maine Orono, during
which he worked on projects related to bird ecology, forestry, phenology,
mammal scavenging, and climate and land-use change. These experiences
made it clear to Kyle how crucial it is to continue working to connect
people back with nature and understand the changing world around us.
Kyle is also a hobbyist artist, photographer, rock climber, and woodworker.
Kristen Lindquist is a published poet and freelance natural
history writer. She regularly leads bird walks for various nonprofit
organizations around the state. She has served as a member of the
Maine Bird Records Committee, as a board member of Friends of Maine's
Seabird Islands and Merryspring Nature Center, and on the Conservation
Commission in her hometown of Camden, ME. She was a contributing writer
for the recent book "Birdwatching in Maine: A Site Guide."
James Longo is an ornithologist and birder. Since a young age
he has felt at home in the forest and got hooked on birding when he
heard his spark bird, a Red-eyed Vireo, singing during a birding field
trip. He has been enthusiastically birding by ear ever since. He spent
years working on various projects as a field biologist, including
studying Black-capped Chickadees, Common Loons, and Florida Scrub-jays.
After moving to Maine, he worked as a Breeding Bird Atlas technician
for the project's final year. He has a B.S. in Wildlife Science from
the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and is currently
a Master's student at the University of Maine studying Bicknell's
Thrush breeding habitat.
Kevin Loughlin was raised to appreciate nature while exploring
the woodlands of Pennsylvania as a child. At age six, during a family
trip through the American West, Kevin became fascinated with photography
as well seeing the new and different birds throughout North America.
Instilled with a love for travel and seeking new, exciting destinations
he felt a desire to share his experiences with others and in 1993
Wildside Nature Tours was founded. Kevin teaches beginning birding
and beginning nature photography classes through several adult education
venues as well as through seminars and workshops for groups, organizations
and schools. Currently the vice president of the Birding Club of Delaware
County, Kevin also founded the PA Young Birder’s Club, sharing his
love of nature while inspiring kids to get outside.
Nick
Lund is on staff at Maine Audubon. He is also a writer, operating
on social media as The Birdist, with a regular column for National
Audubon and also appearing in Slate, the Washington Post, National
Geographic Online, The Guardian, and other outlets. He was born and
raised in Maine and lives in Falmouth with his wife and young son.
Becky
Marvil lives with her family in Yarmouth, Maine. She has a background
in Biology (Earlham College) and in Ornithology and Computer Science
(University of Colorado), and runs her own computer programming/webpage
design business. She is pleased to be the Executive Director of the
Acadia Birding Festival, combining her knowledge of webpage design,
organizational skills, and love of birding. She is also the Secretary
for the Maine Bird Records Committee, eBird Hotspot monitor for Maine,
and on the Board of Maine Audubon. During her free time, she helps
with local bird surveys, chases after rarities, and she loves to travel
and enjoy birds in new locations.
Daniel McDermott, originally from Lowell, MA, is a seasonal Park
Ranger at Acadia National Park, a PhD student at the University of
Rochester, and avid birder. Daniel fell in love with birds and birding
when he first worked for Acadia in the summer of 2017 and has been
hooked ever since. For Acadia, Daniel regularly leads birding programs
and walks, while out of season, volunteers at numerous hawkwatch sites
and Christmas Bird Counts. He especially enjoys birding local patches
and contributing to state breeding atlas projects.
Brendan
McKay gained an early love for birds from his grandmother whose
house he visited on Great Diamond Island during his childhood. He
studied Marine Biology at the University of Maine in Orono and worked
for the Maine Coast Heritage Trust as part of their summer trail crew
for three seasons. While working for the Maine Coast Heritage Trust,
he gained a further appreciation for birds from the knowledgeable
stewards who all shared a passion for the natural world. He discovered
eBird in 2014 and has been thrown deeper down the rabbit hole ever
since. He currently lives in Portland, ME where he enjoys birding
local hotspots and takes pleasure in finding rare birds in unexpected
places.
Steve Mierzykowski is a certified wildlife biologist. He received
a B.S. in wildlife biology from the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst in 1978. After a few seasonal jobs in the Midwest for the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in 1980 he became the wildlife biologist
at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point where he worked for ten
years. Steve transferred back to USFWS in 1990 where he specialized
in environmental contaminants. After a year in the USFWS Rhode Island
Field Office, he was assigned to the Maine Field Office in Orono where
he has lived for 30 years. Beside conducting scores of contaminant
investigations on many species including Bald Eagle, Common Loon,
Common Tern, and Piping Plover, Steve also ran several Breeding Bird
Survey routes in the North Maine Woods. After a 35-year career, Steve
retired from federal service in 2014 and took up birding. He now birds
nearly every day and occasionally guides for Land Trusts and other
groups.
Lena Moser got hooked on birding as a 13-year-old growing up in rural Connecticut. She went on to study and research birds at both Cornell and Princeton University, and she guided birding tours around the world. Lena lived and worked in Maine for 7 years. During this time, she co-founded the Maine Young Birders Club, helping teen naturalists get outside together. She also served on the Board of Directors at York County Audubon and taught a new, museum-based ornithology course of her own design. Lena lives with her husband and 5-year-old son, Ilya, in glorious New Hampshire, where they go on ample adventures and hikes in the White Mountains. Lena runs her own business as a mindset and mindfulness life coach, helping women with many different passions create a career and lifestyle they love.
Cathy Rees has worked as an ecological consultant in Maine since
2000 inventorying and assessing land use conditions, and providing
management recommendations. She has also worked as a gardener and
landscaper during this time designing, installing and maintaining
plantings. The need to educate others about their native flora, its
beauty, mystery and benefit to the ecosystem led her to cofound Native
Gardens of Blue Hill.
Don Reimer is a lifelong birder and photographer residing in Warren,
Maine. A Board Member of Mid-Coast Audubon Society, he has led field
excursions for local environmental organizations and the American
Birding Association National Convention. He is a Board Member of the
Friends of Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge in Rockland.
Don has participated in multiple citizen science projects, including
Project Feeder Watch, The Atlas of Breeding Birds in Maine (1978-83),
The Maine Owl Survey, and the International Shorebird Survey. He has
served as Compiler for the Thomaston-Rockland and Pemaquid-Damariscotta
Christmas Bird Counts. Currently Don serves as a Regional Coordinator
of the Maine Bird Atlas Project. His bi-monthly column Birding
with Don Reimer has appeared in the Rockland Free Press since
2007. A book spanning six-decades of birding experiences Seen
Anything Good? was published in 2020.
Jeff Romano Jeff Romano directs public policy at Maine Coast Heritage
Trust, where he works with a broad coalition of organizations to promote
and support land conservation activities throughout the state. An
avid hiker and birdwatcher, Jeff is also an outdoor writer who has
authored four guides with Mountaineers Books, including: 100 Classic
Hikes of New England (2010), Day Hiking New England (2015), and Hike
the Parks Acadia (2021).
Sue Shaw- Originally from the mid-west, Sue and her husband Harold
have lived in Penobscot, Maine for 43 years. Sue retired from a 37-year
teaching career in 2002, and in May, 2008 took her first Audubon bird
walk. "It wasn't a 'spark bird'. It was a meteor flash", Sue says.
Since that morning she has embraced birding with both arms, attending
festivals ("what wonderful opportunities for learning-all of that
expertise in such a concentrated area!"), taking classes and learning
from CDs and videos. She always has her binoculars, whether biking,
kayaking, or just out and about, "because you never know what will
show up!" Sue is both Secretary and Field Trip and Program Chair for
the local Downeast Audubon chapter, and celebrates her love of birding
through both her poetry and her art.
Bill Sheehan lives and birds in northern Maine, where he grew
up. He is a registered Maine Guide and has been leading trips and
guiding birders in the woods and wetlands of Maine for over 25 years.
Bill is the president of the Aroostook Birders birding club and has
been involved with the Maine Bird Records Committee since its inception.
A reviewer for Maine eBird, Bill has a deep interest in the distribution
and status of birds in Maine and is currently working with Peter Vickery
on a book on this subject. An avid duck-a-phile, Bill loves most scanning
his favorite local patches for rare waterfowl and waders. He can be
seen observing a Ross's Goose in Limestone, Maine on Google Earth
at the coordinates (46.913309, -67.824541).
Emilie Talpin grew up in Chalon sur Saône, France, the birthplace
of Nicéphore Niépce and the first photograph. Despite this background,
she got into photography very late and in 2018 joined a local camera
club where she met a group of talented photographers and was inspired
to dive deeper into the art of capturing moments in time. Now, everywhere
she goes, it is with her trusted camera by her side. Lately, she has
been concentrating on wildlife and macro photography, in particular
water drop refraction, but will occasionally stray with friends to
an astro or landscape photoshoot. As a French teacher, she is inherently
eager to learn and try new material; a practice also applied outside
the classroom as she explores the world around her and chases her
next photo. Emilie is currently a featured pro on the Olympus website,
you can read her articles: https://learnandsupport.getolympus.com/about-emilie-talpin
As
an Environmental geologist, Ann Thayer chose a career that
allowed her to spend her work-life outdoors where she could observe
the natural world around her. Backyard birding and long time association
with Audubon fed her curiosity about birds and led to more varied
birding in Maine and Florida. More recently, she's honed her birding
skills in the varied terrain of Maine, and during expeditions to the
American Southwest, the Caribbean, and Central and South America.
Ann contributes to the birding and geology units of the Maine Master
Naturalist program, and thanks to mentors along the way, she now leads
birdwalks in Maine and Florida, where she's just as likely to point
out an interesting rock or favorite tree species-though she's happiest
when she learns something new along the way.
Peter Trueblood is a bird enthusiast who lives in Oakland, California.
He has been coming to the Acadia Bird Festival for MANY years and
knows the area very well. He also serves as the President of the Board
of the Acadia Bird Festival, a not-for-profit corporation.
Jill
Weber is a consulting botanist/ecologist. She received her B.A.
in Botany from the University of Northern Colorado and her M.S. in
Botany from the University of Maine. Jill has done field botany in
Maine since 1988, working for Nature Conservancy, the Maine Department
of Conservation, Maine Coast Heritage Trust, Acadia National Park,
and many land trusts. She is coauthor of The Plants of Acadia National
Park and Sedges of Maine: A Field Guide to the Cyperaceae. She is
currently an instructor and herbarium curator at the College of the
Atlantic. Plants touch every facet of our lives, from food, to art,
economics, and politics. Every plant has a story, and Weber’s passion
is to learn as many of them as she can and share her sense of wonder
with others.
Magill
Weber was born into a family of non-birders, but had the good
fortune to grow up down the road from the Wind Point lighthouse, one
of the best migrant traps on Lake Michigan. She taught herself to
bird in early elementary school via steady supply of field guides
gifted by family members in the hopes of avoiding actually having
to go birding themselves. Magill has worked as a bird bum on field
projects around the country, wrote a masters thesis on the spring
stopover ecology of Blackpoll Warblers, and served as a project director
for The Nature Conservancy's California migratory birds program. Magill
is currently an attorney for a Portland, Maine-based technology company.
She sits on the Arizona Bird Records Committee and the American Birding
Association board of directors, and has had a number of articles and
photos published in national birding publications and field guides.
She has birded on five continents and in every US state and Canadian
province-the Maine coast is, hands down, her favorite place to bird.
Chuck Whitney is a local educator, who has lived in Hancock County
since 1978. When not birding he can be found making Uilleann bagpipes
and playing them in Irish music sessions.
Fred Yost started watching birds and enjoying nature as a child
while tagging along with his parents, grandparents and the birding
clubs they participated in. His interest in birding became more serious
during his undergraduate studies at Eastern Connecticut State University
where he was exposed to bird banding, birding by ear and tropical
biology. Fred has worked for the Fish & Wildlife Service as a
fisheries biologist for 18 years. He enjoys sharing birds with birders
and non birders, dragonflies, carving, photography and hiking.
