Presenters

	Sarah Rupert Sarah has been birding her entire life, and hasn't missed a spring at Point Pelee since her first visit at 2.5 months old. She has spent many years exploring the wonder of birds and nature, which she loves to share with others through interpretive programs, writing and mixed media art. She eagerly awaits the arrival of spring, and birders, to Pelee each spring.

	Jean Iron Jean is a past president of the Ontario Field Ornithologists and a retired school principal. She is active writing for nature publications and participating in wildlife surveys for the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. Jean has led Quest Nature Tours trips to Belize & Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, the High Arctic, Cuba, Japan, the Galapagos and the Svalbards. She is leading a trip to Iceland this coming July. Ask Jean about how much she likes gulls and shorebirds!

	Justin Peter Justin Peter is Quest Nature Tours' Director of Programs and senior naturalist. Justin was most recently the senior naturalist at Ontario's world-renowned Algonquin Park for several years, where he coordinated the park's interpretive program and acted as lead howler for the park's celebrated Public Wolf Howl events. Justin has led Quest trips to Churchill, Peru, and the Galapagos Islands. He looks forward to pointing out birds and other interesting natural phenomena to you!

	Bob Pettit A nearly lifelong birder (age 10) who gained his love for spotting and counting birds from his avid birder mother and ornithologist father, Flat Rock, Michigan resident Bob Pettit has a zeal for birding pursuits that keep his eyes toward the sky on a consistent basis. Bob is Biology Professor Emeritus at Monroe County Community College with 42 years of teaching service. He has traveled throughout the US, birded parts of Costa Rica on two visits, and has made one trip to the Ecuador mainland and the Galapagos Islands. In the fall of 1987, Bob joined the Holiday Beach Migration Observatory (HBMO), a group of volunteers that specializes in counting migrating hawks at a conservation area east of Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada on the northern shore of Lake Erie. Soon Bob was hooked on raptors and became a volunteer raptor counter with over 1,500 hours of observation. He has since developed a hawk identification workshop and several handouts to assist in hawk identification. He has held several different elected offices in the organization, and is the current President. He enjoys teaching the fine points of bird identification and he acquires much satisfaction when those who have attended his workshops and classes are able to ignite the spark of birding in others.

	Paul Pratt Paul Pratt is the head naturalist for Windsor's Ojibway Nature Centre. He also leads birding and natural history tours throughout North America, the Neotropics, Australia and Africa. Paul currently holds the Big Day birding record for five provinces and Canada along with teammate Tom Hince. He has also been on winning teams at such birding events as the World Series of Birding and Texas Birding Classic. Paul has been birding Point Pelee for over 44 years and also has a wide range of knowledge on all aspects of the plant and animal life of the region.

	Ted Kloske Ted Kloske store manager of Henry's Photo Windsor, has been a professional photographer for over 30 years. Owner of a downtown Windsor photo studio, and trained as a photojournalist. Photography assignments have taken him all across Canada and North America. Ted is an outdoorsman at heart, and an avid white water canoeist. Ted has written and currently teaches several credit and non-credit courses at Windsor's St. Clair College. Ted is just as passionate about teaching photography as he is about shooting photographs.

	Mike Burrell Mike's been hooked on birds for as long as he can remember. He visited Point Pelee for his first spring migration when he was 11 and has never looked back having only missed one since then. Mike grew up outside of Waterloo, Ontario and has worked on birds all over the province with the OMNR, for Bird Studies Canada, in the private sector, and as part of his undergraduate and Masters' research. He's a huge believer in the power of citizen science projects and has been coordinating eBird data quality in Ontario since 2009. You can now find him working as a biologist at the Natural Heritage Information Centre in Peterborough but he'll more likely be sneaking up behind you trying to convince you to submit your sightings to eBird!