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Asher Perla (he/him) Asher Perla is a teenage bird maniac from the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada. He started birding in 2019, the year he attended his first Chautauqua! Since then, he has done a big year in his home county, travelled across the U.S. and abroad, and started a nesting study of a local colony of Purple Martins; all in the name of birds. Although the oppressively hot and bitterly cold days may make him wonder why this could possibly be a good idea, and the stench of water treatment plants, eyestrain of scoping far-off birds, and sweaty hikes may seem like a special kind of torture at times, he somehow believes that as long as there are birds, everything is worth it.