Naturalist
Libby Mills
Libby is a free-lance naturalist, avid photographer and pan-American traveler living in the Skagit Valley of western Washington. She currently guides bird trips and teaches field seminars in bird and forest ecology, as well as field journal illustration. Libby’s Seattle childhood gave her an early start on exploring tidepools, forests and bird life, as well as mountain backpacking and climbing.
Libby graduated from Colorado College in 1975 with a passion for birds and the natural world and began work for the National Park Service in Mount Rainier, Katmai and Denali National Parks as a backcountry ranger and park naturalist. From 1982 through 2006 Libby was the Nature Conservancy’s Bald Eagle Preserve steward on the upper Skagit River. It was while giving a talk on wintering Bald Eagles in 1992 that she was invited to work for Lindblad Expeditions. Libby has shared her love for teaching others about the land and its inhabitants with us on expeditions since then in Baja California, British Columbia, Alaska, and the Columbia River.