Peter Herrera was born and grew up to the age of 14 yrs in the jungle village of Rancho Dolores in central Belize. That’s where his love for birds began.

                After high school in 1982 Peter had a stint in the local Defence Force where he was issued with field gears like guns, binoculars, compass, maps and others.   In 1988 Peter gave up the guns and the rest of military field gears and only kept the binoculars and compass as he started to lead customize package Eco-Tours throughout Belize and into Tikal Guatemala.

                Peter’s knowledge on bird’s expanded in 1990 when he started to work as an assistant field biologist at the Rio-Bravo Conservation and Management Area in north western Belize alongside an ornithologist and a botanist doing extensive scientific work with bird’s and plant’s, that’s where Peter banded his first bird (black-and white warbler) Peter went on to be the assistant manager of that protected area for a couple of years. 

                In 2000 Peter started to work as a supervisor  for a Wisconsin base project call Bird’s Without Borders where again he was focusing on the studies of bird migration and also looking at the reproductive success of resident bird’s in Belize through banding, censusing and nest searching and monitoring.

                Along with tour guiding Peter presently work with several environmental consultant company doing EIA and REA on properties throughout Belize as a bird data collector.

                Peter never gave up tour guiding as he will always find time to lead birding and student groups between these jobs. Some of the characters that he led through Belize are: Samantha Brown, David Drake and popular Japanese Naturalist Yasuhiko Ito.

Today Peter spends his spare time doing acrylic painting of birds on canvas.  He always jokingly say’s that one good thing he learnt from the military is to always carry a pair of binoculars’ , and his motto is to make his best birding trip the next one he will do.