Jeremy Bensette
Jeremy is a career birder, visiting from the Point Pelee area, Canada’s premier migration birding hotspot. He loves helping others to find birds and understand the ecology behind the birds we see.
Jeremy operates a tour company called Pelee Birding, based in his home locality of Point Pelee, and plans on someday expanding with tours abroad. He represents Swarovski Optik as a Field Tech, and has much experience with a wide variety of popular birding optics and bird photography. He has worked birding and ecology contracts with Birds Canada, conservation authorities, and ecological consulting companies for over a decade, and has visited the Bruce region many times. An active community member and volunteer in organizations like Ontario Field Ornithologists, Essex County Field Naturalists’ Club, and Holiday Beach Migration Observatory, Jeremy regularly contributes time and data to citizen science projects like eBird and Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas. He also previously held Ontario’s Big Year record, for the most bird species identified in a single year in Ontario, between 2017-2022!
Spending time with Jeremy will surely add some highlights and insight to your birding journey.