Jason “the Birdnerd” came to Audubon in 2013 after a 10 year career with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Starting at Mitchell Lake Audubon Center and joining Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center staff in 2015, St. Sauver has been the lead Education staff here creating programming for all ages and audiences like the international Let’s Go Birding Together and more recently, the Wildlife Explorers curriculum for middle and high school aged students to experience field surveys as an Ornithologist, Botanist, and Entomologist on field trips and in after school programming.
Originally from South Dakota, “the Birdnerd” grew up loving not only birds but the outdoors and credits is Grandmother for introducing him to his spark bird, the Dark-eyed Junco. Jason has an over 10 year career in music and theatre before his environmental education work, performing in such off-off-Broadway musicals as Footloose and writing and directing Dracularama.
St. Sauver was the 2018 winner of Audubon’s Chotzen Educator of the Year award and is locally known as a birding-by-ear expert. Along with birds, he loves travel, reading, and horror films.
Contact: jason.stsauver@audubon.org
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