Stu Mackenzie
Landbird Programs Coordinator

Telephone Ext. 223

I started birding at the ripe old age of 2, first visited Long Point when I was 6 and have been banding since I was a budding 13-year-old participant in Long Point Bird Observatory's Young Ornithologist Workshop (YOW). It's a wonder how I ended up running the show down at LPBO!
I grew up in Stoney Creek, Ontario where I spent the majority of my pre-pubescent years birding in the mornings on the shoreline and up to Beamer Conservation Area to watch the raptor migration as mid-day approached.
In 2000 I began working for Bird Studies Canada as a Species at Risk Biologist and interpretative naturalist. In 2001 and 2002 I was fortunate enough to head up the field research for the Prothonotary Warbler Recovery Team, which unbeknownst to me would quickly become a slight obsession. After a few years of working in Carolinian Canada, the draw of the north led me to become one of the crew leaders for BSC's Boreal Project in the summer of 2003. Despite the bugs, the bush, and the bears, you wouldn't have to pay me to do it again.
I graduated from the University of Guelph in the spring of 2004 with an honours Zoology degree and a minor in Geographic Information Systems. That same spring I began coordinating the landbird programs at Long Point.
I can currently be found running around the net lanes or staring up at the sky fascinated almost every morning during the spring and fall migration at LPBO's Old Cut field station. I live at the base of Long Point with my ever-changing family of volunteers and waves of migrants.