Jean Iron

Jean IronJean is well known to Ontario birders; she was president of the Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO) from 1995 - 2004 and edited OFO News for 14 years.  Her special interests are shorebirds, grassland birds, gulls, bird identification and digiscoping.  Jean loves the Hudson Bay Lowlands of northen Ontario and spends her summers as a volunteer surveying shorebirds and waterfowl around James and Hudson bays for the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and the Royal Ontario Museum.  Jean is a leader for Quest Nature Tours to French Polynesia, Svalbard - Norwegian Arctic, Belize and Guatemala and Galapagos.  In 2016 Jean was named a Distinguished Ornithologist by OFO.