Photo of Dick Ashford.

Dick Ashford

Chairman of the Board, American Birding Association

Dick is Board Chair of the American Birding Association and past President of the Klamath Bird Observatory. He has spent hundreds of hours in the field watching hawks and an equal amount of time researching their natural history. Dick leads hawk-watching outings several times a year, teaches the "Hawks" class at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Southern Oregon University and originated the popular "Hawk Heaven" trips at the San Francisco Bay Flyway Festival.