Louise Zemaitis
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Upcoming Tours
- Nov 14, 10: South Texas Birds and Butterflies
- Mar 20, 11: Belize: Relaxed and Easy
- Apr 19, 11: South Florida
- May 15, 11: Spring in Cape May: A Relaxed and Easy Tour
- May 22, 11: Delaware Bay Shorebirds
- Jun 19, 11: Western Colorado, Birds & Habitats
- Jul 18, 11: Galapagos Islands Cruise Aboard Isabella II
- Sep 25, 11: Cape May and Bombay Hook
- Nov 06, 11: South Texas Birds and Butterflies
- Mar 18, 12: Belize: Relaxed and Easy
- Apr 17, 12: South Florida
- May 13, 12: Spring in Cape May: A Relaxed and Easy Tour
- May 21, 12: Delaware Bay Shorebirds
- Jun 17, 12: Western Colorado, Birds & Habitats
- Sep 23, 12: Cape May and Bombay Hook
- Nov 11, 12: South Texas Birds and Butterflies
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Louise Zemaitis is an artist and naturalist living in Cape May, New Jersey where she is a popular field trip leader teaching birding workshops as an Associate Naturalist with New Jersey Audubon's Cape May Bird Observatory. She also enjoys leading birding groups and lecturing at birding festivals and is known for her enthusiasm for all natural history subjects. Louise and her husband, Michael O'Brien, have been guiding young birders at birding events and conferences for many years. In addition to leading, Louise is coordinator of the Monarch Monitoring Project in Cape May, compiler of the Cape May Christmas Bird Count, and member of the Cape May Artists' Cooperative. An honors graduate of Temple University's Tyler School of Art, she enjoys working as a freelance artist and her illustrations have been widely published. Her proudest accomplishment has been the raising of her two sons, Bradley, a biologist and artist, and Alec, a philosopher and musician.