About the RRBO Staff

The staff of RRBO is made up of volunteers. As we collect photos, we'll show you the faces behind the research at RRBO.
RRBO staff:
Volunteer Bird 
 Banders, 2005:

Orin Gelderloos
Director of Natural Areas
Known to ride elephants
 

Darrin O'Brien
Engineer
Nicknames too numerous to mention

Andy Dettling
IRS Agent
Parents met at Duke's Hardware

 

Julie Craves
Supervisor of Avian Research
The Alpha Female

Rachel Bricklin
Post-graduate drifter

Fred " Mossy Oak" McDonald
H.F. Hospital staph staff
The famous antique hat

Rick Simek
Supervisor of Natural Areas
It's a bee suit, he only seems like an alien

Suzanne "Birdseye" Vedder
Gun-toting church secretary

Sally Petrella
Friends of the Rouge
Hand-reared goitered gazelles

Mike Perrin and 
Dorothy McLeer
Natural Areas Interpretive Staff

Beth Johnson
Zookeeper
Would not buy her family gas masks

Greg "Grandpa" Norwood
"It's worse than a hockey
locker room."
(also bands)

 

 
Sally Petrella and Beth Johnson show off a couple of Blue Jays.
Greg Norwood, Andy Dettling, and Darrin O'Brien find it easier to count hawks while prone.

 

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Created 1 May 1995; updated 6 October 2005  by Julie Craves
Rouge River Bird Observatory
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