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			<title><![CDATA[Richard Gibbons]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Richard Gibbons has worked as a field biologist for the past twelve years in various parts of the Americas. He earned his wings working on avian productivity and survivorship projects, hawk migration, Andean hummingbirds, and Texas  colonial waterbirds. Richard is the Coordinator for the Louisiana Bird Resource Center, a fledgling organization within the LSU  Museum of Natural Science. He is also a PhD student at LSU studying Tropical Ornithology. ]]></description>
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			<media:description><![CDATA[Richard Gibbons has worked as a field biologist for the past twelve years in various parts of the Americas. He earned his wings working on avian productivity and survivorship projects, hawk migration, Andean hummingbirds, and Texas  colonial waterbirds. Richard is the Coordinator for the Louisiana Bird Resource Center, a fledgling organization within the LSU  Museum of Natural Science. He is also a PhD student at LSU studying Tropical Ornithology. ]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Brainard Palmer-Ball, Jr.]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Brainard has been birding in his home state of Kentucky since the early 1970s. He spent 24 years in the state’s “Heritage Program” conducting surveys of amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds. He authored The Kentucky Breeding Bird Atlas and co-authored the Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Kentucky. He currently serves as the editor of the Kentucky Ornithological Society’s quarterly journal, The Kentucky Warbler.]]></description>
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			<media:title><![CDATA[Brainard Palmer-Ball, Jr.]]></media:title>
			<media:description><![CDATA[Brainard has been birding in his home state of Kentucky since the early 1970s. He spent 24 years in the state’s “Heritage Program” conducting surveys of amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds. He authored The Kentucky Breeding Bird Atlas and co-authored the Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Kentucky. He currently serves as the editor of the Kentucky Ornithological Society’s quarterly journal, The Kentucky Warbler.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jennifer Owen-White]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Jennifer Owen-White is the Regional Interpretive Specialist for Texas Parks and Wildlife's South Texas State Parks and currently resides in Rockport, TX. She oversees education and interpretive programs at eleven parks in Southern Texas including Bentsen Rio Grande Valley, Estero Llano Grande, Falcon and Resaca de la Palma State Parks. In addition to her work in South Texas Jennifer trains state park's staff all over Texas in interpretive birding techniques. Prior to her current position Jennifer was the Park Naturalist at Bentsen Rio Grande Valley State Park and the Natural Resource Specialist at Estero Llano Grande State Park. Jennifer is currently pursuing her PhD in Forestry and Natural Resource Interpretation at Stephen F Austin State University and her research focuses on birding programs for diverse audiences. ]]></description>
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			<media:title><![CDATA[Jennifer Owen-White]]></media:title>
			<media:description><![CDATA[Jennifer Owen-White is the Regional Interpretive Specialist for Texas Parks and Wildlife's South Texas State Parks and currently resides in Rockport, TX. She oversees education and interpretive programs at eleven parks in Southern Texas including Bentsen Rio Grande Valley, Estero Llano Grande, Falcon and Resaca de la Palma State Parks. In addition to her work in South Texas Jennifer trains state park's staff all over Texas in interpretive birding techniques. Prior to her current position Jennifer was the Park Naturalist at Bentsen Rio Grande Valley State Park and the Natural Resource Specialist at Estero Llano Grande State Park. Jennifer is currently pursuing her PhD in Forestry and Natural Resource Interpretation at Stephen F Austin State University and her research focuses on birding programs for diverse audiences. ]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Chip Clouse]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Chip Clouse is Director of Conservation, Education and Outreach for the American Birding Association.  He has been a trip leader at several birding festivals around the country. He is a trained science teacher and environmental educator, but came to the ABA after many years of avian research in the field.  He has worked with the critically endangered Grenada Dove in the Caribbean, Southwestern Willow Flycatchers in CA and AZ, Peregrine Falcons in NC and OR, and studied the effects of wildfire and prescribed fire on birds, especially cavity nesters, in five western states.  He is partial to nuthatches and woodpeckers and managed two retail bird feeder stores in a former life.]]></description>
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			<media:description><![CDATA[Chip Clouse is Director of Conservation, Education and Outreach for the American Birding Association.  He has been a trip leader at several birding festivals around the country. He is a trained science teacher and environmental educator, but came to the ABA after many years of avian research in the field.  He has worked with the critically endangered Grenada Dove in the Caribbean, Southwestern Willow Flycatchers in CA and AZ, Peregrine Falcons in NC and OR, and studied the effects of wildfire and prescribed fire on birds, especially cavity nesters, in five western states.  He is partial to nuthatches and woodpeckers and managed two retail bird feeder stores in a former life.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[David Benn]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[David is a life long resident of the Valley.  HIs interests have always included the natural world and the creatures that live in it.  He begin birding in the 1970's, sharing his birding time with fishing the Gulf of Mexico and the bays of South Texas.  He has traveled extensively in Mexico and has enjoyed opportunities to visit both Costa Rica and Panama several times each.]]></description>
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			<media:title><![CDATA[David Benn]]></media:title>
			<media:description><![CDATA[David is a life long resident of the Valley.  HIs interests have always included the natural world and the creatures that live in it.  He begin birding in the 1970's, sharing his birding time with fishing the Gulf of Mexico and the bays of South Texas.  He has traveled extensively in Mexico and has enjoyed opportunities to visit both Costa Rica and Panama several times each.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Julian Hough]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Originally from Bolton, England, Julian Hough has been interested in birds since the age of six and as a teenager spent all his spare time birding around the British Isles in the pursuit of rare birds. 
   His passion for birds and a specific interest in field identification has led to extensive travel to many far-flung corners of the globe, including extended periods in Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East and recently Southern and Central America. He cut his birding teeth here in the US, spending summers and falls observing the spectacular migration in Cape May, New Jersey. He has worked as a research biologist for both Long Point (Canada) and Cape May Bird Observatories studying field identification and bird migration and has published many identification and feature articles for magazines including Wildbird, Birding, Birding World and Birdwatch. 
    Julian is a talented and widely published artist, but in recent years he has focused more on photography and his work has been widely published in numerous European and American publications. He is an active part of the CT birding community and serves as a member of the CT Avian Rare Records Committee (ARRC). He currently resides in New Haven, CT with his wife Sandy and their young son Alex.]]></description>
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			<media:description><![CDATA[Originally from Bolton, England, Julian Hough has been interested in birds since the age of six and as a teenager spent all his spare time birding around the British Isles in the pursuit of rare birds. 
   His passion for birds and a specific interest in field identification has led to extensive travel to many far-flung corners of the globe, including extended periods in Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East and recently Southern and Central America. He cut his birding teeth here in the US, spending summers and falls observing the spectacular migration in Cape May, New Jersey. He has worked as a research biologist for both Long Point (Canada) and Cape May Bird Observatories studying field identification and bird migration and has published many identification and feature articles for magazines including Wildbird, Birding, Birding World and Birdwatch. 
    Julian is a talented and widely published artist, but in recent years he has focused more on photography and his work has been widely published in numerous European and American publications. He is an active part of the CT birding community and serves as a member of the CT Avian Rare Records Committee (ARRC). He currently resides in New Haven, CT with his wife Sandy and their young son Alex.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[John Brush]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[John Brush likes to think of himself as being a naturalist, but really he's just a birder who is just barely starting to learn about other types of organisms. He's been birding for 9 years in the Rio Grande Valley and works at Quinta Mazatlan World Birding Center. Just starting his college years, John is majoring in Biology and loves to do bird studies and is always thinking of the next one that could be done.]]></description>
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			<media:title><![CDATA[John Brush]]></media:title>
			<media:description><![CDATA[John Brush likes to think of himself as being a naturalist, but really he's just a birder who is just barely starting to learn about other types of organisms. He's been birding for 9 years in the Rio Grande Valley and works at Quinta Mazatlan World Birding Center. Just starting his college years, John is majoring in Biology and loves to do bird studies and is always thinking of the next one that could be done.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[J. Drew Lanham, PhD]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[J. Drew Lanham is a lifelong birder who has been practicing his craft since the second grade!  He is currently a Professor of Wildlife Ecology at Clemson University where he teaches courses in field ornithology and wildlife management. He is also an active researcher who studies the impacts of forest management on songbirds and other species. A native South Carolinian, Drew has birded internationally in South Africa and the Peruvian Amazon.  He has birded the West and Southwest extensively and counts an experience at the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival among his most enjoyable and productive birding trips.  Among his other conservation-related activities, Drew is a published non-fiction nature writer and serves on the boards of South Carolina Audubon and the South Carolina Wildlife Federation. His favorite birds are wood warblers and accipiters.]]></description>
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			<media:title><![CDATA[J. Drew Lanham, PhD]]></media:title>
			<media:description><![CDATA[J. Drew Lanham is a lifelong birder who has been practicing his craft since the second grade!  He is currently a Professor of Wildlife Ecology at Clemson University where he teaches courses in field ornithology and wildlife management. He is also an active researcher who studies the impacts of forest management on songbirds and other species. A native South Carolinian, Drew has birded internationally in South Africa and the Peruvian Amazon.  He has birded the West and Southwest extensively and counts an experience at the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival among his most enjoyable and productive birding trips.  Among his other conservation-related activities, Drew is a published non-fiction nature writer and serves on the boards of South Carolina Audubon and the South Carolina Wildlife Federation. His favorite birds are wood warblers and accipiters.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Michael Hilchey]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Michael Hilchey has been an avid birder and biologist ever since his grandmother started taking him out birding at age eleven. Currently a Biology undergrad at the University of New Mexico, Michael can pretty much always be found in the field. He spends his mornings and evenings chasing rare birds, his afternoons searching for butterflies, and his nights out involve spotlighting owls and/or road cruising for snakes and toads. Michael loves to lead bird tours and has many years experience doing so in the Southwestern USA for various Audubon groups and birding festivals. Michael also spends a lot of his time conducting biological research (mostly with birds). He has been involved with many projects in and around New Mexico over the years; most notably he is the co-lead of the Sandia Rosy-Finch Project in Albuquerque. This long-term study of Rosy-Finches in the Sandia Mountains was recently featured in the May/June issue of National Audubon Magazine.]]></description>
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			<media:title><![CDATA[Michael Hilchey]]></media:title>
			<media:description><![CDATA[Michael Hilchey has been an avid birder and biologist ever since his grandmother started taking him out birding at age eleven. Currently a Biology undergrad at the University of New Mexico, Michael can pretty much always be found in the field. He spends his mornings and evenings chasing rare birds, his afternoons searching for butterflies, and his nights out involve spotlighting owls and/or road cruising for snakes and toads. Michael loves to lead bird tours and has many years experience doing so in the Southwestern USA for various Audubon groups and birding festivals. Michael also spends a lot of his time conducting biological research (mostly with birds). He has been involved with many projects in and around New Mexico over the years; most notably he is the co-lead of the Sandia Rosy-Finch Project in Albuquerque. This long-term study of Rosy-Finches in the Sandia Mountains was recently featured in the May/June issue of National Audubon Magazine.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jake Mohlmann]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Jake Mohlmann holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Parks and Recreation Management from The Pennsylvania State University, where he was instrumental in forming the university’s first official Student Bird Club. Raised in rural northeast Pennsylvania, Jake is a lifelong birdwatcher and conservationist. He has worked for New York City’s Museum of Natural History and for Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Science and made significant contributions to the field work for the most recent edition of the Pennsylvania Breeding Bird Atlas. Since then he has worked on projects involving Burrowing Owls at the Salton Sea and counted secretive marsh birds in the lower Colorado River basin. He also spent a summer leading tours on St. Paul Island and has worked on the identification and monitoring of endangered species in South Texas and various areas in the Mojave Desert of southern California.
It was on St. Paul that Jake lived a birder’s dream, with the first Western Hemisphere record of Brown Hawk Owl—subject of a subsequent cover photo and article in North American Birds in 2007. Jake is always excited to return to sunny southeastern Arizona to live and bird as a co-owner of The Adventure Birding Company. He is also an associate leader for WINGS bird tours leading trips to Utah, Arizona and Mexico.]]></description>
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			<media:description><![CDATA[Jake Mohlmann holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Parks and Recreation Management from The Pennsylvania State University, where he was instrumental in forming the university’s first official Student Bird Club. Raised in rural northeast Pennsylvania, Jake is a lifelong birdwatcher and conservationist. He has worked for New York City’s Museum of Natural History and for Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Science and made significant contributions to the field work for the most recent edition of the Pennsylvania Breeding Bird Atlas. Since then he has worked on projects involving Burrowing Owls at the Salton Sea and counted secretive marsh birds in the lower Colorado River basin. He also spent a summer leading tours on St. Paul Island and has worked on the identification and monitoring of endangered species in South Texas and various areas in the Mojave Desert of southern California.
It was on St. Paul that Jake lived a birder’s dream, with the first Western Hemisphere record of Brown Hawk Owl—subject of a subsequent cover photo and article in North American Birds in 2007. Jake is always excited to return to sunny southeastern Arizona to live and bird as a co-owner of The Adventure Birding Company. He is also an associate leader for WINGS bird tours leading trips to Utah, Arizona and Mexico.]]></media:description>
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