Doug Gochfeld Doug Gochfeld has guided internationally for Field Guides Birding Tours since 2016. Before that, he worked in a panoply of bird jobs across the US, from Cape May and New Hampshire, to Arizona and Alaska.

He made the jump from a love of trains, planes, and automobiles typical of many 6-year-olds to an avid interest in birds after a close encounter with a Steller's Jay in the Pacific Northwest. This filled his early formative years with scouring the urban landscape of New York City for birds with his father. After a teenage break from all things avian, he returned to it with a vengeance, and he hasn't looked back.

He has served on multiple avian records committees, and his photographs and writing and photographs have been published in a myriad of venues, but Doug is most passionate about spreading the gospel of birding and the outdoors, and to this end he participates in youth and urban birding initiatives and has guided at birding festivals across the country.