Jeff’s interest in bird watching started as a child in North Carolina. While on a tour to feed stingrays in the Caribbean, he found the tropicbirds and terns flying overhead more interesting than the stingrays, and realized then that birds were his thing! Jeff got his Master’s Degree in natural resource management in 2019. His career in environmental restoration allows him to protect streams, wetlands, and occasionally, endangered plants!
Jeff loves sharing his passion for the outdoors. Making a meaningful impact in the world is one of his driving motivations. He has lived in West Africa, volunteered in Ecuador, led bird walks domestically, and was a penpal through the Letters to a Pre-Scientist program. Jeff’s favorite experiences in nature have included walking with bears in Alaska, swimming with manta rays in Hawaii, and tracking elephants in Ghana.
While Jeff loves to find neotropical migrants as they pass through the east coast during migration, his interest and skill in birding has taken him to California, Ecuador, India, Thailand and many other fascinating places! Jeff’s “Birding Bucket List” includes [name any bird] and he would like to visit [name any country]. In his spare time, Jeff reads birding reports to his reluctant, non-birder wife. Among his crowning achievements, Jeff is most proud that one of his daughter’s first words was “bird.”
