

Arthur Gomes
Arthur was born in Campinas, in the countryside of São Paulo state. He was interested in nature since he was a child, and as a teenager he discovered his passion for birdwatching. He graduated in Biology, and then joined in a master’s degree in Ecology at the National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA) in Manaus. During his master’s degree he lived in the Amazon, where he’s still involved in several expeditions to remote regions, and has even found new species’ records for Brazil. He has participated in birding trips in almost every brazilian state, having accumulated more than a thousand species of birds recorded in Brazil alone on eBird. This provided him with extensive experience in the field as well as naturalistic knowledge of the environment and various biological groups, therefore, as a guide, he is capable of identifying and showing a great diversity of elements of the ecosystem.
Arthur has dedicated part of his time in the field to recording bird sounds, with more than 1,800 sound contributions to the Macaulay Library, as well as photos, including new records for some species. He is involved in a variety of projects, such as training the Merlin app, developed by the Cornell University, for identifying bird songs. He is also a volunteer reviewer for the eBird, coordinating the northern region of Brazil.
