By the age of five, Patrick Pina had already started a small collection of abandoned bird nests. Born in 1984 in Fátima do Sul, a small town in the countryside of Mato Grosso do Sul, he grew up surrounded by birds and open landscapes. It was his grandfather who first taught him to observe nests, read small signs in nature and find joy in quiet discoveries.

That fascination led him to study Biology at the Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, graduating in 2007. During his undergraduate years, he was already guiding foreign visitors in the Pantanal, moving naturally between languages, cultures and scientific knowledge; a skill that would later take him to international conservation events as a translator and interpreter.

In 2009, he moved to São Paulo state to deepen his experience as an ornithologist and continue refining his knowledge of avian biology at Universidade de São Paulo (USP) and bird ecology at Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). He later completed a specialization in Wildlife Management and Biodiversity Conservation at Universidade Santo Amaro in 2013 and became a senior bird bander certified by CEMAVE/ICMBio.

Over the past 20 years, Patrick has worked as an ornithologist, environmental consultant and guide across all Brazilian biomes and in Latin America, including Paraguay, Peru and Colombia. Career highlights include radio-tracking Bare-throated Bellbirds (Procnias nudicollis), reintroducing the Solitary Tinamou (Tinamus solitarius), monitoring Mealy Parrots (Amazona farinosa) in Ilhabela, and working with parrots and macaws at clay licks in the western Brazilian Amazon and in the Tambopata region of southeastern Peru.

He has also dedicated years to environmental education, bringing lessons about birds into rural, peripheral and indigenous schools through long-term programs that share with children the same wonder his grandfather once shared with him.

Since 2015, Patrick has been based on the northern coast of São Paulo, near the Serra do Mar and the Alcatrazes Archipelago, where the Atlantic Forest meets the open ocean, and where seabirds and humpback whales became a natural extension of his naturalist life.

In the field, he is known for a sharp eye, a keen ear and a boyish enthusiasm for nature that has never dimmed. Away from the field, he can often be found gardening and cooking, or singing and playing the piano.