Glenn Seeholzer

Glenn is a senior at Cornell, concentrating in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Originally from Philadelphia, Glenn started birding at the age of 13. He has pursued this consuming interest in travels across North America, Mexico, Europe, Kenya, and for the past two summers, Peru.  This fall, Glenn will return to Peru to conduct the first ornithological inventory of the remote Gran Pajonal along with fellow Redheads Mike Harvey and Ben Winger (alum).  Despite his current distraction with the Neotropics, spring migration on the East Coast still exerts a strong pull on Glenn's inner birder.  What better way to spend one of his last weeks as a Cornell undergraduate than running around Cape May County birding and raising funds for future undergraduate research at the Lab of Ornithology.

 
Jay McGowan
Jay is a junior biology major at Cornell with a concentration in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He has lived in Ithaca for most of his life, and although he has traveled to Peru, Mexico, and much of North America, most of his birding has been in the Northeast. A dedicated birder since the age of eight, he was introduced to birds by his father, Kevin McGowan, also an accomplished birder and former long-time member of the Sapsuckers. Jay has scouted for the Sapsuckers during the World Series of Birding since 2002, and participated in the newly-formed Digiscoping  division in 2006.

 
Shawn Billerman
Shawn is a junior biology major, concentrating in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Although his research lies mainly in the Lab, studying Barn Swallows and Mockingbirds, he is always itching to get out birding. He comes from Long Island, New York, where he has been a serious birder for over 11 years. Shawn has spent most of his time birding in the US and Canada, in addition to a brief trip to the tropics of Mexico. He looks forward to the chance to raise money for undergraduate research and conservation as a member of The Redheads again in 2008!

Michael Harvey
Michael is a senior biology major who has been birding since the age of seven, when he had a magical moment with a Great Blue Heron on a pond near his New Hampshire home. His academic interests have converged on the areas of avian biogeography, evolution, and speciation, but he still spends way more time than he should out birding. His academic interests and passion for studying birds have taken him to various parts of North and South America, Africa, and Europe for study, work, and travel. His big project now is planning (with Glenn and former Redhead Ben Winger) an intensive ornithological expedition to an unexplored mountain range in the eastern Andes of Peru, which will take place in the Fall of 2008.

Tom Johnson

When he isn't birding, Tom is a sophomore biology major at Cornell. With generally more temperate inclinations than several of the more tropical Redheads, Tom has enjoyed many road trips around the United States and Canada learning about bird distribution and identification.
His interest in birds stems from a love of migration, and he is currently involved in research projects attempting to understand the peculiarities of migration in the Northern Saw-whet Owl and the Lesser Black-backed Gull.  Tom hails from Pennsylvania where he grew up birding and currently serves on the Pennsylvania Ornithological
Records Committee.