Our Guides

Jody Allair is an avid birder and naturalist who enjoys sharing his enthusiasm for the natural world. Jody has been birding and banding since his teens, when he began volunteering at Long Point Bird Observatory (LPBO).

Duan Biggs was born in Windhoek, Namibia and spent many of the weekends of his young days in this vast and wild country chasing down Pale Chanting Goshawks and other birds of prey his parents (both ecologists) were studying. At the age of 10 Duan moved with his family to the Kruger National Park in South Africa, where his interest in birds turned into a lifelong passion.

David Brewer was born in western England, rather longer ago than he is now prepared to admit. He started bird-watching at about age eleven, and by fourteen was totally hooked.

Growing up in the Okanagan Valley, birding was a way of life for the Cannings family and Russell took to it right away, seeing his first Northern Saw-whet Owl when he was 2 weeks old.

Jared Clarke is a native Newfoundlander who grew up on the northeast coast of the province and was introduced to the outdoors at a very young age – often by his grandfathers.

There is a beautiful Regent Bowerbird sitting in the Crow’s Ash tree outside Barry’s office window as he writes his story - and a Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove has just been and gone.

Ken De Smet combines an avid interest in birds with a career in wildlife biology.

Héctor Gómez de Silva was born in Mexico in 1969, but spent his early years in New York City and Kenya.

João was born in Lisbon and studied biology at the Faculdade de Ciências de Lisboa, from where he developed his professional career in the pharmaceutical industry, as senior manager

Adam was born and raised in rural Manitoba.

Steve began his career as an ornithologist at the Long Point Bird Observatory in Ontario, close to where he grew up amongst the company of eastern migratory birds. He has since headed west to the Kootenay region of British Columbia but continues to exhibit an affinity for migration by traveling abroad on biology and photographic assignments.

Pierre Richard grew up in Quebec City and has been an avid naturalist since his teens.  He has vacationed in the Charlevoix region since childhood.  It is in that area that he developed a keen interest in marine life and, in particular whales, seals and seabirds.