Kootenay Office

Ryan Gill is a Wildlife Biologist with a broad range of experience conducting fieldwork throughout western North America.  From remote islands in Alaska to the Mojave Desert he has worked on a variety of impact assessments and avian ecology studies.  More recently he has developed skills in database administration and GIS.  Ryan is based in Revelstoke where he has been involved in the birding community through the production of a bird song audio disk and as a volunteer naturalist at a local festival.  He is excited about joining CBA and is looking forward to building more GIS skills and spending even more time in the field.

Harry van Oort is a Wildlife Biologist with expertise in ornithology, animal behavior, and large mammal ecology. During his career, Harry has gained considerable experience working on reproductive studies of songbirds, conducting aerial wildlife surveys, designing studies, analyzing data, and writing technical reports and scientific papers for publication. Harry first became interested in bird watching and falconry at a young age and he pursued this interest when he began doing biological fieldwork in 1996. Harry completed his BSc. Degree at the University of Victoria in 1999. In 2004 he completed his MSc. Degree at the University of Northern British Columbia, where he studied black-capped chickadees ( Poecile atricapillus ) under the supervision of Dr. Ken Otter. Harry has been working as a professional biologist since then.

Michal Pavlik is a Wildlife Biologist in CBA Ltd.'s Kootenay Office. He completed a M.Sc. degree in Zoology in 2007 and his thesis research focused on breeding biology (site-fidelity, nest survival, sex ratio of broods and extra-pair paternity) of the Nightingale ( Luscinia megarhynchos ).

Michal is an experienced ornithologist with excellent bird identification skills and he has worked on various avian surveys and monitoring research projects including population ecology research on small mammals and owl population dynamics. Michal also has extensive bird banding experience and has worked as Bander in Charge at bird banding stations in North America and Europe.