Arnaud Valade has been a bird and nature aficionado for most of his life. He started doing migratory bird counts and censuses with the Rimouski bird observatory and is now leading field work on the impacts of deforestation and noise pollution on the avifauna of some of southern Quebec’s last patches of old growth forests. When the field season is over, Arnaud spends most of his time doing bird recording analysis for various projects, keeping his ear muscles ready for the spring to come.
He loves seawatching, hawkwatching, gulling, patch-birding, vagrant-traps, visual migration as well as slower forms of birding in good company as well.
Arnaud recently started writing and giving talks for QuébecOiseaux and sits on the board of directors for that same organization, which promotes birding and bird conservation in the province.
Arnaud is also a documentary film director and editor. He recently participated in a few critically acclaimed films and is now researching a new project on how ornithology and birding transforms our relationship with ecology.
Most of all, Arnaud is always inquisitive and finds as much joy in sharing knowledge as in learning from others.
