Annie has been conducting avian field research since 2009 and earned a B.S. in Wildlife at Humboldt State University in 2015. Over many years of field work she has predominantly worked in neotropical ecosystems, grasslands, and riparian habitats across the U.S. and in Costa Rica, Colombia, and Ecuador. Annie started birding at the age of 9 in Washington state, and this interest quickly developed into a passion for conservation. In her free time, she enjoys birding, naturalizing, traveling abroad, backpacking, doing most visual art forms and rock-hounding, among other things. She first worked for SSRS in New Mexico in 2021, and is now a full-time field biologist at the station.