Panhandle Young Birders Club.

Who We Are

The Panhandle Young Birders Club is a project of the Coeur d’Alene Audubon, aimed at providing opportunities for young people aged 12-25 to get involved with birds and conservation in northern Idaho. We are run by high school and college students who want to give young people the same opportunities we had to get involved in birding and conservation.

What We Do

We lead birding field trips and visits to conservation organizations, and hold classes and workshops about birds, birding, conservation, and advocacy. We also run social media accounts with updates about our events, as well as bird-related games, information about birds, and opportunities to get involved with birding and conservation.

Our Team

Daniel Martin

Daniel is currently a senior at University of Idaho, majoring in Biology with an emphasis in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior. He's been a birder since 2018, and is on the board of Golden Eagle Audubon Society. He also works with the Intermountain Bird Observatory as a songbird bander. He plans to spend his career working on bird conservation, and is passionate about getting young people interested in birds and conservation.

Founder and President

Emmett Marsh

Emmett is currently a sophomore at Boise State University. He spent the summer of 2019 working with local college students surveying rattlesnakes in the Morley Nelson Snake River Valley Area. In the past few years, he's gotten more into birding and has been learning about conservation in Idaho.

Social Media Manager

Field Trip Director & Newsletter Editor

Eleanor Parks

Eleanor has been working in education for almost 10 years and has been birding (intermittently) since 2015. She started birding while volunteering at Sitka National Historical Park in Alaska to help lead bird walks, and has since birded in Arizona, Nevada, and Idaho. She worked with Intermountain Bird Observatory on woodpecker and cuckoo surveys and is always learning new bird facts to share!

Customer Service Manager

Karl Holland

Karl is currently a junior at Boise State University studying Biology with an emphasis in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior and he is originally from Durango, Colorado! He first found his love of birds at the age of 10, when he watched the movie, “The Big Year.”

Membership

Panhandle Young Birders Club is pleased to offer free membership to birders aged 12-25 through Coeur d’Alene Audubon membership program. Benefits you receive as a junior member include:

Our monthly newsletter
Opportunities to influence what we do as a club, including events, conservation projects and presentations.
Priority registration for events with limited attendance

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Past Projects

Conservation projects led by members of the Panhandle Young Birder Club have been fun and interesting. Some of our members have gone on to use the skills learned in these activities in their studies beyond high school.