Oliver Burrus is a homeschooled fourteen-year-old birder from northern Illinois. Oliver has been interested in birds practically his whole life, and since 2013, when he went on a trip to Texas, he has been actively birding. A few months after he went to Texas he met up with a group of experienced senior birders and with Illinois Young Birders Club who have mentored him ever since. In 2016 at the Illinois Young Birders Symposium he founded Whimbrel Birders Club, and now they are looking to expand their club to other parts of the country and the world! I created a survey about the top birding locations in Illinois and it was posted Dna info and was talked about on WBBM. Also I was the Wisconsin Young Birders Club young birder of the month for December 2016.