Jaida Marinas
Jaida Aguilar Marinas grew up in the San Jose area of California’s Bay Area. From a young age, she had a big heart and a deep interest in learning about and helping wildlife. Visits to zoos and trips to local parks to watch ducks are among Jaida’s fondest childhood memories. One of her favorite memories […]
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Max McClarnon
Max grew up in southern Oregon’s Rogue Valley, where a childhood spent exploring forests and creeks sparked a lifelong fascination with the living world. He originally specialized in reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates, but everything changed after taking a college ornithology class—he caught the birding bug, and birds have been at the center of his naturalist […]
Ma’ayan Peer
Ma’ayan (they/them) began as a self-described “bird skeptic,” but fell in love with birds during their mom’s 60th-birthday trip to the Amazon. Back home in California, they assumed the excitement wouldn’t translate—until owls, flickers, and other neighborhood species proved otherwise and sparked a deep, lasting passion. Raised in the Bay Area, Ma’ayan feels a strong […]
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Emmett Iverson
Emmett was born and raised in the land of Yellow-billed Magpies and Nuttall’s Woodpeckers—the Central Valley of California. His introduction to birding began with a gifted Sibley guide and his grandmother’s feeder in Maine. After becoming captivated by a Rose-breasted Grosbeak, he returned to California and discovered its west coast counterpart, the Black-headed Grosbeak. That […]
