Corina Newsome

Corina Newsome is a graduate student at Georgia Southern University who studies the MacGillivray’s Seaside Sparrow, a bird found in coastal marshes of the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. She came to my attention more than a year ago through her Twitter account, where she frequently posts about her field work with birds, her past experience as a zookeeper, and other topics. She has more than 48,000 followers, plus an additional 3,300 on Instagram. On both platforms, her handle is @hood_naturalist.

Newsome wrote a chapter about birds in the book , published in 2019 by Rowman & Littlefield, and this year, her university magazine, and other media.