Join BirdNote tomorrow, November 30th!
Illustrator David Sibley and actor H. Jon Benjamin will face off in the bird illustration battle of the century during BirdNote's Year-end Celebration and Auction!
Starting at Yale University as an Ecology and Evolutionary Biology major, Adé is currently pursuing both a B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in Biology at Southern Connecticut State University. Adé’s academic interests include evolution, paleontology, and science communication and outreach. He has worked at the Yale Peabody Museum as both a vertebrate paleontology collections assistant and tour guide, observed the feeding habits of common terns in Maine with National Audubon's Project Puffin, excavated 213 million year-old fossils in Arizona’s Painted Desert, helped teach hands-on science courses for international high school students via the EduExplora Advanced Pre-College summer program, and currently runs his own YouTube channel, Adasaur, highlighting the diversity of life in the ancient past and the people who research it.
A relative newcomer to the birding world, BirdNote listeners might already be familiar with Adé from his work on both BirdNote Daily and Bring Birds Back, but he has also been helping to plan and organize the annual Black Birders Week since 2022. He credits the group and its movement for his newfound interest in the hobby and has covered the growing impact of the event since 2021 in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's All About Birds. Outside of science things, you can find him playing steel pan with the St. Luke's Steel Band, enjoying a board game (yes, including Wingspan), and regaining his trumpet chops.