Ryan Kilgower
As the Wetland Birds Project Support Officer at BirdLife Australia, Ryan works on a variety of projects within BirdLife including the Melbourne Water regional bird monitoring project and Orange-bellied Parrot monitoring. Ryan’s role involves coordinating volunteers and field work. Field work involves monitoring wetlands and searching for threatened species such as the critically endangered Orange-bellied Parrot. Ryan is an avid twitcher, having seen close to 300 species in Victoria and is well known throughout the Victorian birdwatching community