Noah Strycker, 24, is living an adventurous life of birds.

He is Associate Editor of Birding magazine, columnist known as “BirdBoy” in WildBird magazine, and frequent contributor to other bird-related publications. Noah’s articles have appeared in National Wildlife, Birder’s World, Bird Watcher’s Digest, Living Bird, Birds and Blooms, and Popular Birding, as well as several field guides, government documents, and other print media. His first book, Among Penguins, will be released in spring 2011.

Last winter, Noah spent three months in an isolated Antarctic field camp with more than a quarter million penguins. Now, he is living in a large wilderness in the northwest Australian Outback, researching endangered Purple-crowned Fairy-Wrens. He has also studied birds in Ecuador, Panama, Fiji, Mexico, New Zealand, Hawaii, Alaska, Maine, California, Michigan, and Oregon, helped Taiwan design an ecotourism program, and searched for Ivory-billed Woodpeckers in Florida, in between birding trips. Noah’s “life list” is approaching 2,000 birds on six continents – one-fifth of all the world’s species.

Noah graduated Magna Cum Laude, on full academic scholarship, from Oregon State University in 2008 with a degree in Fisheries and Wildlife, minoring in Fine Arts. He was named the American Birding Association’s “Young Birder of the Year” in 2004.

He is also a competitive tennis player, and headed the Oregon State team at #1 singles for four years. Noah has completed four marathons, spent an accumulated four months backpacking wilderness areas of the Pacific Northwest, and recently walked 50 miles in one day. He plans to hike the entire 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail, from Mexico to Canada, in summer 2011.

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