Ed Conrad - 2004

Ed Conrad grew up discovering his home state of Utah with this father – generally using birding as an excuse for the travel and time together.  He went on to graduate from Westminster College with a B.S. in Biology, where upon the role birds play in his life expanded.  Ed spent the summer after college graduation hiking the Appalachian Trail and encountered 144 species and 27 life birds along the trail to Maine.  He has subsequently studied birds in Costa Rica, Jamaica, Canada and remote atolls in the Pacific, banding over 3,500 birds along the way.  He is excited about his new position as Bird-biologist Educator at the Starr Ranch Sanctuary in Orange County, CA.