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Full Time Tour Leaders

Adam Walleyn

Adam was born and raised in the Canadian prairies. A birder and naturalist from a very young age, he spent his youth in the field - birding, ...

Alexander Alvarado

Alexander Alvarado grew up in Copán Ruinas in western Honduras. He became interested in birds many years ago whilst working for a hotel located in this Mayan ...

André Bernon

André grew up close to nature in Zululand, a hotspot for biodiversity in South Africa. He always had a keen interest in nature from a very young ...

Carlos Sanchez

Born in Miami, Florida, Carlos Sanchez has had a fascination with wildlife as far back as he can remember — the first books he checked out of ...

David Hoddinott

David Hoddinott has extensive experience leading birding tours throughout Africa, Asia and Madagascar. He is well known in birding circles for his endless energy and legendary bird ...

Dušan Brinkhuizen

Dušan Brinkhuizen is a biologist and Rockjumper leader who resides in Ecuador. He graduated from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands with an MSc specializing in ...

Erik Forsyth

Erik Forsyth is a long-standing Rockjumper leader now living in New Zealand. He is a superb birder who currently leads for Rockjumper in Asia and Australasia. Erik ...

Forrest Rowland

Forrest Rowland took his first trip to the Neotropics at the tender age of 9 and this has blossomed into a lifelong love affair with the region’s ...

Glen Valentine

Glen Valentine has an unquestionable passion for birds that, like his brother Keith, developed at an extremely tender age. Glen has traveled and guided tours throughout Africa, ...

Gregory de Klerk

As a young boy who was raised in Durban, Greg found his passion and interest in all aspects of the natural world.  To escape the metropolitan and ...

Julian Parsons

Born on the beachfront of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and raised in a small town bordering the picturesque city of Cape Town - Julian is a coastal soul ...

Lev Frid

Lev was born in St. Petersburg, Russia but now resides in Huntsville, Canada. He has a keen interest in all forms of wildlife that began with looking ...

Nigel Redman

Nigel Redman lives in Norfolk, UK, the best county for birds in Britain, and has been obsessed with birds for as long as he can remember. He ...

Paul Varney

Paul lives in Norfolk in the UK and has been birding since the age of 9 – more than 40 years now! Birds and wildlife are his ...

Robert Williams

Rob is an experienced tropical biologist and birder who specializes in the New World tropics. For the last decade, he has lived in South America, firstly in ...

Robert Wilcox

Hailing from the Mississippi Valley of eastern Iowa and growing up on his family's restored tallgrass prairie, Bobby Wilcox has always been an avid nature-lover and conservationist. ...

Stephan Lorenz

Stephan Lorenz was born in Germany, but moved to the United States at a young age and began birding in Texas, one of the most biologically rich ...

Toni Geddes

Born in South Africa, Toni has had the privilege of growing up in the ‘bush’, be that her extensive back garden or the Kruger National Park - ...

Part Time Tour Leaders

Adam Riley

Adam has traveled extensively to all 7 continents, leading tours to numerous countries ranging from Colombia to Egypt, Angola to Papua New Guinea and Antarctica to Alaska. Adam is one ...

Amanda Guercio

Amanda has had a keen interest in wildlife and nature since childhood, but was formally introduced to the world of birding through an ornithology course in Algonquin ...

Claudia Cavazos

Claudia Cavazos is a native Texan. She grew up in Houston and attended university in Austin and Houston, ultimately earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology ...

Clayton Burne

Clayton Burne hails from Durban, South Africa. His previous experience includes working as a museum technician, five years of safari guiding and several years of ophthalmology. Clayton ...

Daniel Danckwerts

Daniel Danckwerts grew up in southern Zambia where, from a very young age, he gained a strong appreciation for all things wild. His weekends were spent wandering ...

Eliana Kramer

Hailing from Colombia, the country with the most bird species in the world, Eliana has an unrelenting passion for birds, butterflies and biology. You’ll almost always see ...

George Armistead

A birder since the age of 9 years old, George has a long history of connecting people with nature through ecotourism and expedition travel. A professional wildlife guide with 20 years ...

Harriet Faithfull

Holly’s passion for nature and wildlife began at a young age growing up in rural England. Her curiosity about the world took her traveling at the age ...

Heinz Ortmann

Heinz is a South African born birder whose interests in birds and wildlife, in general, commenced at a very young age. He holds an Honours in Conservation ...

Keith Valentine

Keith Valentine developed his interest in the outdoors and birding at an extremely young age. After completing a Degree in Financial Management, Keith decided to follow his ...

Luke Tiller

Originally from London, England, Luke transplanted to the United States in 2003. As a professional hawkwatcher he has traveled the world to witness raptor migration and has ...

Mandy Talpas

As a tremendous lover of birds and wildlife Mandy has dedicated her life to avian conservation. From the time she was a young girl in northeastern Pennsylvania, she ...

Mark Beevers

Mark Beevers hails from the UK and has been birding since his early teens with a particular interest in visible migration and finding rarities on his local ...

Peter Kaestner

Peter is a world-renowned independent birder who has spent a lifetime sharing his passion for birds with others. Always a birder, Peter’s first international trip was at age ...

Richard Thomas

Richard lives in Cambridge, UK, and has been fascinated by birds ever since the age of five when he spotted some Bohemian Waxwings in his front garden. ...

Richard Hatfield

Stratton is a passionate guide and his love for birding and conservation is contagious. He was born in Zimbabwe to American parents. He began birding at the ...

Steve Davidson

Steve has had a love affair with birds from as far back as the age of six, and since then the hobby has become a passion. Steve ...

Stuart Elsom

Stu Elsom is a professional ecologist, tour leader and wildlife photographer who is based in Cambridgeshire, from where he runs his own consultancy, Stuart Elsom Ecology. A keen naturalist ...

Tuomas Seimola

My birding has grown from a passionate hobby to a passionate full-time career as an ornithologist. The part of my work that I enjoy the most, is ...

Whitney Lanfranco

Whitney's passion for nature began at a young age while she was growing up on a ranch in rural Central Texas. She spent her youth learning the ...

Yeray Seminario

Yeray as born and raised in the Canary Islands, where he started working in wildlife rescue right after he got his Veterinary Medicine degree. He specialised in ...

Yoav Perlman

Yoav Perlman grew up in Israel, one of the best places in the world to witness and study bird migration. Yoav started birding at the tender age ...

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