Abbie Valine, Lead Bander

Abbie Valine first discovered birds in her second-grade science class and never looked back. Since graduating from the University of Northwestern—St. Paul with a B.S. in biology, Abbie has spent field seasons across the country working with species such as cerulean warblers, Henslow’s sparrows, and Florida scrub-jays. After completing the Hawk Ridge banding traineeship in 2019, Abbie returned to trap at the Moose Valley station for two seasons, then spent a season running Intermountain Bird Observatory’s Lucky Peak station in the mountains of Idaho. She is now thrilled to return to Hawk Ridge in a new position of lead raptor bander! When not birding, Abbie enjoys reading, knitting, playing the flute, and thinking about shrikes.