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Roy Poucher Roy Poucher has been a Sea & Sage Audubon Society (Orange County) bird surveyor, trip leader and field trip assistant in their birding classes (including aural birding) for 28 years. For them he has led trips throughout the US. Roy also is an international bird tour leader via his company Bird Odyssey Tours. He has led tours to Central and South America, Africa and Asia, as well as throughout the US. Tours to Peru and Argentina (birding plus the total solar eclipse!) are upcoming. His passion is bird vocalization, and has received personal aural birding mentoring from Dick Walton (author of the Peterson birding-by-ear audio series), Luis Baptista (late of the California Academy of Sciences), Tom Hahn (UC Davis), Nathan Pieplow (author Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds series) and Sylvia Gallagher (renowned Southern California educator). Roy has taught aural birding for the Monterey Bay Birding Festival and has been an annual presenter at the Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival.