Thomas Valqui
Found member of the Center for Ornithology and Biodiversity (CORBIDI), respected authority on Peruvian birds, author of more than 15 research articles and books on the birds of Peru, and leader of bird watching tours across Peru. Thomas obtained his PhD in Zoology (Ornithology) from Louisian State University and has a Masters in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University. In addition, he is a graduate in Forestry from the La Molina University in Lima. He has participated in the Field Biology Training Program at Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences, and is in the process of building up the training and environmental monitoring capacity of CORBIDI.

Jared Wolfe
Jared Wolfe has operated bird banding stations throughout the Western Hemisphere for non-profits, academia, consulting firms and the US Federal Government. Most recently, Jared has been working with the US Forest Service’s Redwood Sciences Laboratory and Humboldt State University using bird banding as a tool to examine climatic influences on migrant bird physiology, survivorship and habitat use in Central America. Jared also uses banding data and museum specimens to describe molt and plumage-based age-criteria for resident tropical birds. Currently, Jared supervises bird banding operations at the Tortuguero Integrated Bird Monitoring project in Costa Rica, started and directs operations at the Bluebonnet Bird Observatory in Baton Rouge Louisiana, and is working on his PhD studying the effects of forest fragmentation on Amazonian bird genetics near Manaus, Brazil. Jared holds a master banding permit from the USFWS and is a certified North American Banding Council (NABC) trainer.

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Eveling Tavera (Course Manager)
Eveling is a Peruvian wildlife biologist with extensive bird ringing and banding experience obtained whilst an assistant at Humboldt Bay Bird Observatory, Bandelier National Monument, and as an active member of CORBIDI. Eveling holds a Bachelor’s degree in forest science from Cayetano University, and has attained the grade of Bander’s Assistant - as certified by the North American Banding Council. She has assisted in bird ringing courses in Chile, Colombia, Venezuela, and her native Peru. She is currently involved with the development of Peru’s national bird banding program in association with CORBIDI.

Cesar Abrill
Cesar is a Peruvian ornithologist, graduate of the San Agustin National University in Arequipa, an active member of the National Ornithologist’s Union of Peru (UNOP in Spanish), and Bird Team Coordinator for Fauna Forever Tambopata since July 2009. Over the last few years he has worked with the New Jersey Audubon Society on migratory shorebird research in the USA, in the El Paujil Private Reserve in Colombia monitoring bird population levels, and with the Inkaterra Asociación (ITA) and Conservation International Peru (CIP) in Tambopata coordinating fauna research along the Lower Madre de Dios River, and more recently as a volunteer of the Tambopata Macaw Project with Rainforest Expeditions where he was also an instructor on high school- and university-level field courses.

Mauricio Ugarte
Mauricio is a peruvian ornithologist, he is the curator of the Ornithology Area in the Natural History Museum in Arequipa, Perú and a board member of UNOP (Peruvian Ornithologists Union). He started bird banding in 2005 and participated in extensive bird banding programs in Colombia, USA and Perú where he is developing a banding station in Taricaya Private Reserve in 2005 in the Peruvian lowland rainforest. He obtained the Bander Trainer level, certified by The North American Banding Council while he was working with the Klamath Bird Observatory in Oregon, USA in 2007. In 2009 with the support of some other organizations including NABC and the RAHOO he organized a Bird Banding Course in Perú.