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Full 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Douglas McCulloch

Doug was born in Zimbabwe, and spent a typical southern African childhood outdoors there and in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands of South Africa. He has been a keen ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Riaan Botha

Riaan was born and brought up just north of Johannesburg, in a lush green suburb rich in bird life. As a little boy he could be seen ...

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 ...

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 ...

Part Time Tour Leaders

Aaron Steed

Aaron has been interested in birds and natural history his entire life. Originally from Wilmington, NC, Aaron holds a B.S degree in General Biology from the University ...

Angus McNab

Angus has been a professional wildlife biologist for the last 13 years. In this time he has worked across Australia with a particular focus on Northern Australia ...

Christian Artuso

Dr. Christian Artuso is a conservationist, ornithologist, avid world birder and photographer. He has lived and travelled extensively in Asia and the Americas and seen over 5,000 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jeremy Exelby

Jeremy's first passion in the natural world were plants and trees, with birds catching up to his interest levels over the years. Jeremy has lead a number ...

Kevin Burke

Kevin was introduced to birding while taking an ornithology class in Ohio and has been birding every day since. He has a degree in Resource Recreation and ...

Lee Gutteridge

Lee Gutteridge is a professional tour leader, guide trainer and tracker with over 21 years of experience. He has published 5 books on various wildlife and anthropological subjects and ...

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 ...

Maria Muriel

Born and raised in México, Maria is a certified Cultural and Nature guide. Maria began her career in eco-tourism as a culture guide having spent time in public ...

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 ...

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 ...

Penny Robartes

Penny Robartes is a professional fine art wildlife photographer whose images are easily recognized by her iconoclastic work that is recalibrating the way the world sees wildlife. ...

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 ...

Ricardo Matus

Ricardo Matus is a naturalist born and raised in Punta Arenas, Chile, on the shores of the Straits of Magellan. Ricardo participates in research and conservation projects ...

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 ...

Rynart Bezuidenhout

Rynart Bezuidenhout was brought up in the city of Pietermaritzburg. Having always been adventurous, he started travelling immediately after completing his schooling, spending a number of years ...

Simon Thompson

Originally from Suffolk, England, Simon has lived in North Carolina for over 20 years. Prior to moving to the US he lived in Lebanon, Kenya, Yemen, and ...

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 ...