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France Dewaghe, Team Captain
France has been birding for as long as he has been alive. Growing up in a birding family, France has traveled and birded all over the United States, Europe and has more recently gotten hooked on the tropics. An avid biker, photographer and birdbum, he spends as much of his free time in the field birding, often by bicycle. When not birding he occupies himself as the Web Developer behind The Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Webby Award winning AllAboutBirds.org website.

Charles Eldermire
Charles is the project leader for the Cornell Lab's new BirdCams project. He grew up in the Veery-rich lakeside forests of Cleveland, Ohio, and can still pick out a veercall at least a half-second earlier than his teammates. He honed his birding skills as a graduate student and field researcher in places like Alaska, Montana, California's channel islands, Costa Rica, South Africa, and, on his honeymoon, Thailand and Cambodia.

Hugh Powell
Hugh is the Cornell Lab's science editor. He picked up birding from his father, whose job as a U.S. Air Force pilot took the family to within reach of birding hot spots such as Chincoteague, Virginia, Cave Creek Canyon, Arizona, the Sierra Nevada of California, the Lake Erie shore, and Skomer Island, England. He studied Black-backed Woodpeckers before becoming a science writer, a job that has twice sent him to Antarctica (for a combined trip list of 9 species). During the World Series he serves as the team's wind break during long rides on breezy afternoons.