Growing up in a family of naturalists, Sarah was introduced to the birding world at a very young age. It started when she was only a month old with annual trips to the Festival of Birds at Point Pelee National Park, but the birding bug really took hold when she began her undergrad studying Wildlife Biology and Conservation at the University of Guelph. Sarah joined the University’s Wildlife Club, meeting other like-minded people who encouraged her to join eBird. Not long after Sarah became co-president of the club and coordinated many club birding trips around southern Ontario.
In 2018 Sarah began her career as a Park Naturalist and later as an Ecology Intern in Algonquin Provincial Park, where she spent seven years leading hikes, conducting programs, engaging with park visitors at the visitor centre, as well as working with species at risk and invasive species. Spending seven years in this wildlife haven allowed Sarah to not only further her knowledge on the birds of the area, but she is now also heavily interested in almost all aspects of the natural world around her (especially reptiles and amphibians, moths, dragonflies, fungi and orchids). In the off season Sarah completed a Bachelor of Education at the University of Western Ontario, and now supply teaches high school science and biology.
Sarah occasionally leads bird hikes for the Ontario Field Ornithologists in Algonquin Provincial Park, Point Pelee National Park, and around southwestern Lake Ontario. She has also recently become an eBird regional reviewer and is currently a voting member on the Ontario Bird Records Committee. Sarah has travelled from coast to coast in Canada, and loves to visit Central and South America for winter birding.
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