Tyler Hicks - 2006

Tyler Hicks began birding at the age of 10 and distinctly remembers the first bird he recorded in his Golden Guide, an Eastern Screech-Owl. Tyler has come to believe he has been hardwired to be a birder and as a young man left formal education behind to bird throughout North America and later do bird research in Asia.  His experience in Asia led to Tyler becoming very active in the Saemangeum estuary reclamation project in Korea.  His experiences there also made him realize that to maximize the attention he wanted to bring to habitat destruction issues in Asia he needed to sacrifice his freedoms for the short term and complete his college education. Tyler has also spent two seasons in the swamps of the Florida panhandle searching for proof of the continued existence of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker.  Tyler has broadened his interest of the natural world and is involved in fishing for exotic species all over the world.  You can follow his fishing adventures on Facebook or YouTube by following Spilt Milt Productions.