Winnie Burkett

Houston | Biologist

Winnie Burkett is a biologist, with a special interest in ornithology, who has served as the Houston Audubon Society’s vice president of sanctuaries and coastal sanctuary manager. Her work has ranged from monitoring and banding birds to supervising development of the Smith Point hawk watch tower, to protection of the nesting terns on the Bolivar Flats, to management of the High Island sanctuary, well known for fall-outs of thousands of tanagers, buntings, warblers, vireos, flycatchers and other neotropical migrants flying north in the spring. In the long run, she hopes to contribute to creating the first permanent bird observatory on the Gulf Coast, to complement similar facilities’ work on the east and west coasts of the U.S.