The Five Beaks
Captain: Louise Edsall
Team: Bart Edsall, Salay Kamara, Sean Edsall and Rachel Pack
Thanks for supporting The Five Beaks and ASNV! Birdathon is one of our biggest fundraising events of the year and helps us:
support a teacher at Hog Island
support citizen science and habitat conservation
support our efforts to promote native plants to help the birds.
Use the donation form on this page to make an outright donation to The Five Beaks, or make a pledge using the form below.
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About This Team:
The Five Beaks is made up of Louise Edsall (Captain), Bart Edsall, Salay Kamara, Sean Edsall and Rachel Pack. Louise is the Program Administrator for ASNV, has been birding since childhood, and is known affectionately as the family bird nerd. Bart, Louise’s husband and a 20-year veteran of the United States Air Force, is mobility-restricted due to spinal cord injuries but finds joy in birdwatching from home with Louise. Salay Kamara, an employee of Comfort Keepers, has been Bart’s caregiver since October 2020. Sean is Louise’s son and Rachel is his fiancé. Sean is a business manager at Excelity and Rachel is a regulatory specialist for Wetlands Studies and Solutions. This expanded team is excited to participate and hopes to grow its species count from last year’s count of 62. Their Big Day is on or about Mother’s Day, May 14th. Their Big Day goals include raising awareness of the joys of birdwatching and bird conservation to other mobility-impaired individuals and veterans, discovering new birding locations for the mobility-impaired and finding a solution for Bart to view birds through binoculars, which is a challenge without the use of his hands. One bird they are hoping to see on their Big Day is a Barn Owl.
Pledge Form
Fill out the form below if you’d like to make a pledge for The Five Beaks instead of an outright donation. You can pledge per bird or per species seen by the team. A member of the team will reach out to you after Birdathon concludes with the official results. You can then fulfill your pledge by returning to this page and using the donation form above. Thanks for supporting The Five Beaks and ASNV!