ABOUT BOB JANSSEN:
Bob Janssen is one of the most experienced and respected birders in the state of Minnesota. He is a past president of the Minnesota Ornithologists Union and served for 38 years as the editor of the MOU journal "The Loon".  Bob has published three books on avian life in Minnesota and is acknowledged to be the state's leading expert on

bird distribution. He has been a birding instructor at the Bell Museum at the University of Minnesota and Metropolitan State University. Bob has been retained to conduct numerous bird surveys across the state for the DNR, USF&WS, as well as private companies.  He has acted as field trip leader, class instructor, and guide for many of the best bird festivals in Minnesota including the Big Stone Shorebird Workshop.   His years of experience and identification abilities make him one of the best guides and instructors in the upper mid-west.

ABOUT DOUG BURI:
Doug Buri is a lifelong birder with a BS degree in zoology. His interest in shorebirds has led him to pursue them around the globe on five different continents. The shores of Hudson Bay, the mud flats of coastal Columbia, the great rift valley of Ethiopia, and the

marshes of central India all attract shorebirds. Doug followed them; intrigued by the challenge of studying and identifying this avian group. Doug was the organizer of the first Big Stone NWR shorebird workshop and acted as a guide for that event. He was involved for many years in a multiyear research project on Big Stone NWR studying Least Sandpipers and Pectoral Sandpipers. Doug has acted as an identification consultant for the study collection at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and for the Peabody Museum at Yale University in New Haven Conn.