Bill Kolodnicki, a retired Refuge Manager with the U.S. Fish and  Wildlife Service, was stationed at Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge from 2004 to 2016. Previously he was at the Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge, Long Island NWR Complex, and with the National Audubon Society. He has been a bird watcher all his life and his graduate work dealt with colonial nesting water birds.