Arctic Dreams Birding Tour > About Your Guides
Jukka Jantunen
Jukka was born in Finland
in 1965. He started birding at the age of ten and is still a keen
birder. He bought his first camera in the mid-80s, a secondhand
Pentax. At first the camera was just another piece of gear he
carried on birding trips, used mainly to document sightings of uncommon
species and on excursions abroad. However, by the late-90s
photography had become an important aspect of his birding.
Furthermore, Jukka has managed to turn his favourite hobby into a
career and nowadays most of his time is divided between conducting
bird-related fieldwork and wildlife photography. Most of his recent
bird photographs have been taken with a Canon MkII body with 500/f4 and
300/f4 lenses.
Jukka moved to Canada in 1999 and has lived
in Montreal, Whitehorse, and various places on the coast of British
Columbia. He currently calls Comox on Vancouver Island his home.
Since coming to Canada he has travelled the country from coast to coast
and the continent from the Arctic to the Tropics but he seconds the
words of Jim Morrison, "The west is the best." His favourite places to
bird and photograph include various places in the Yukon,
coastal BC and California .
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Tami Hamilton
Tami Hamilton is a highly respected guide with many years of experience in the backcountry. On top of her work as a wildlife technician for the Canadian Wildlife Service, Tami is an avid naturalists and birder, having worked with local and national not-for-profit groups like the Yukon Conservation Society and the Canadian Wildlife Federation. Tami is an environmental practitioner who also holds an outdoor diploma from the National Outdoor Leadership School. Tami holds a wilderness first responder first aid certificate and is a climbing and sea kayaking instructor. Her experience includes work as an outdoor instructor for the Yukon Department of Education as well as contract work for the Department of the Environment, BC Wildlife Federation. In between naturalist work she have been professionally guiding wilderness trips for the past eight years. Tami is a life-long resident of the Yukon, having grown up on the shores of Kluane Lake. The wilderness is where she feels most at home. Tamis is passionate about her daughter and the natural and cultural history of the North.
