YCN role: Company Director and Birding/Wildlife Guide
Qualifications: National Diploma Land Use and Recreation, Post Graduate Diploma Environmental Conservation
Profession al Membership: Member of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM)
Personal Profile:
Richard’s love of birds and wildlife started at age nine when he watched wide eyed as a charm of European Goldfinch fed on a thistle within a...
YCN role: Company Director and Pro Wildlife Photographer/Wildlife Guide
Awards:
2013 - “Commended” in the “Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards”.
2013 - “Commended” in the “Big Picture USA – Natural World Photography Competition”.
2013 - “Commended” in the “British Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards”.
2015 - “Highly Commended” in the “British Wildlife Photographer of...
YCN role: Birding/Wildlife Guide
Qualifications: Higher National Diploma in Ornithology, BSc (Hons) in Environmental Science
Personal Profile:
Mark is an obsessive Yorkshire coast birder and naturalist whose roles include wildlife guide, ecologist, speaker, writer and educator.
He is well known as a passionate, exceptional communicator, whether in the field with...
YCN role: Birding/Wildlife Guide
Qualifications: BSc (Hons) in Agricultural Science , Post Graduate Certificate in Education
Margaret has been a keen birder from an early age, growing up in the Ribble Valley, in Lancashire. At a younger age Margaret spent most of her time out in the field on her local patch as well as birding across the country and abroad. She spent a summer as an assistant warden at the Calf of Man bird observatory where she...
YCN role: Birding/Wildlife Guide
Qualifications: BSc Hons Ecology
Jono is a self-confessed nature geek. His passion started at an early age, firstly with birds and then broadening into all forms of wildlife and this interest has taken him all over the world.
Jono obtained his first degree in Ecology at the University of East Anglia in the mid-1990s before heading...
YCN role: Botanist/Wild Flower Walks Guide
Qualifications: BSc Hons Agriculture
Personal Profile:
A Westcountry girl who used to think York was in East Anglia, Claire spent a free-range childhood exploring the downs and woodlands of West Dorset and completely took for granted having a swathe of species rich downland right next to her home. Many happy hours were spent watching the jewel-like blue butterflies, collecting grasshoppers (they did get released again) and...
YCN role: Birding/Wildlife Guide
Qualifications: BSc Hons Ecology
John, better known as "Johnny Mac", is an experienced bird and wildlife tour leader. Born in Doncaster, he has had a life-long love of nature. He was inspired early in life whilst witnessing a pair of displaying Great Crested Grebes and watching the RSPB film "The Kites are Flying". Whilst still at school he volunteered at the local Potteric Carr YWT reserve.
An early achievement was gaining an honours degree in Ecology at...
Paul is a keen birder with a passion for observing Yorkshire's amazing wildlife. He is a specialist in the rapidly evolving photographic discipline of phonescoping: combining a spotting scope with a common or garden smartphone to photograph or film birds and other wildlife. His footage has featured on BBC Springwatch and in Audubon Science. Paul loves the great British countryside, but has soft spot for urban birding and his local Leeds Peregrine Falcons. Paul writes about phonescoping at phonescoping.org
