Brit Nahorney

Wildlife Biologist l
Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science

Office: 177 Hobcaw Rd, Georgetown, SC 29442
Phone: 802-999-8970

Email: bnahorn@clemson.edu

Educational Background

MS Biology
Ball State University 2024

BS Environmental Biology
Pacific University 2015

Profile

Brit Nahorney grew up in Oregon and has assisted with avian and small mammal research throughout the United States. She’s previously conducted fieldwork for the Hawaii VINE Project on Oahu, as a least bell’s vireo and MAPS station technician for USGS, and surveyed breeding marbled murrelet for Oregon State University. She has also trapped and tracked New England cottontail in New York, assisted with clapper rail research, and was a crew lead for the Saltmarsh Habitat and Avian Research Program in Maine which included searching for nelson’s sparrow and savannah sparrow nests, banding birds, and collecting avian blood samples.

Brit holds a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Biology and a master’s degree in Biology. During her graduate research, she studied the phenology of cerulean warbler nest stages and caterpillar abundance in Indiana along with the diet and gut microbiome of cerulean warbler. She is joining the James C. Kennedy Waterfowl & Wetlands Conservation Center after working as an environmental reviewer at New Hampshire Fish and Game where she provided conservation measures for developmental impacts to threatened and endangered species in the state, before the review program ended. She’s excited to explore South Carolina and to add as many southern bird species to her life list as possible.

In her free time, Brit enjoys hiking, photographing arthropods, cheering on her favorite hockey team, and watching birds.

Publications

Nahorney, B.K., and K. Islam. 2025. Phenological Mismatch in Breeding Cerulean Warbler (Setophaga cerulea) and Prey Variability Among Tree Species in Male Territories. Northeastern Naturalist 32:542-561.

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