Peter Waanders has been an avid birdwatcher since age 10. Born and raised in the Netherlands, Peter obtained a B Sc degree in Environmental Management and has worked in National Park management planning in the Czech Republic, ecological research in the Netherlands and Australia, and natural resource management planning and environmental project management in Australia.
Peter has travelled extensively to over 40 countries in Europe, North and South America, Asia and the Pacific in pursuit of his main interests: birdwatching and nature photography. His life list of bird species currently totals 2,200 and his collection of digital images exceeds 20,000. In 1996 Peter moved permanently to Australia and purchased a property in South Australia consisting of mallee eucalypt scrubland and small orchards. Until recently, Peter was employed by a semi-government catchment management authority and managed large environmental projects with a focus on floodplains, wetlands and biodiversity. Peter started conducting professional bird guiding trips in 2002 and is now full-time managing a very successful bird guiding business, Southern Birding Services, showing visitors the rare and hard-to-find species of southern Australia.

Check out Peters bird photo collection

Helga Kieskamp became a birder upon moving to Australia from the Netherlands in 1997. Helga has a Bachelor Degree in Museum studies and has studied Eco-tourism including guiding. After working for many years at Biological Services in Loxton (SA), producing beneficial insects and mites for horticultural enterprises to aid in pest control she became a freelance environmental contractor undertaking numerous projects including studying the endangered Regent Parrot and conducting various water bird surveys. Helga is a keen bird photographer and has driven many outback bird tours for Southern Birding Services, and commenced guiding birders to Gluepot in 2011.