As you may have noticed, we’ve recently started publishing interviews with different people from the birding scene (yes, I know that sounds a bit weird). So far, we’ve talked to:
- Authors of bird books
- eBird contributors and reviewers
- Birding tour operators
- Ornithology Ph.D. students
- …and of course, Bird guides (in our weekly series).
There are more already in preparation — for example, with podcasters, organizers of bird walks, and conservationists.
But we’d like to expand this series further. Future interviews could feature:
- Publishing & media: bird book publishers and editors, bird bloggers, professional photographers, and illustrators
- Research & collections: field researchers, museum curators of bird collections
- Conservation & community: bird rehabilitators, NGO leaders, managers of reserves or IBAs, leaders of bird clubs, organizers of bird fairs
- Technology & industry: developers of birding-related apps, producers of optics (binoculars, scopes, maybe even cameras)
If you belong to one of these groups — or have other suggestions of whom to talk to — please get in touch. Your ideas could help shape the next interviews.
Photo: Blue-naped Parrot, Kota Kinabalu, Borneo, Malaysia, July 2023. This photo has no real relation to the post content at all – but all the AI-generated illustrations I looked at were simply too ugly.
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