Jessie Barry - 2007

Jessie Barry’s passion for birds was sparked at the age of ten in her hometown of Rochester, New York. However, her interest in birds started even earlier in life as her first word was duck. Jessie graduated from the University of Washington after completing a degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. She was previously involved in research at the Burke Museum and is currently the Assistant Curator of Audio at Macauley Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. She writes for Birding and WildBird magazines and is a contributing author for the National Geographic Complete Birds of North America. She has also authored a well-received book, Good Birder’s Don’t Wear White: 50 Tips from North America’s Top Birder’s.