Rebecca Weiss has been engaging with birders for more than 15 years through the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies, where she particularly enjoys helping to facilitate novice birders’ budding interest as it catches fire. As a birding guide, naturalist and writer based in Aspen, Colorado, the Roaring Fork Valley has been her primary birding patch. Rebecca is author of Birds of Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley, a guidebook that brings local birds into focus in a format designed to appeal to everyone from the bird-curious to seasoned birders. She has also written articles and content for trailside interpretive signs pertaining to birds and their habitats, and conducted bird banding, ornithological and botanical field work, and natural history education.