
Meet our ambassadors from around the world, learn about their passions, techniques and discover why they choose Kowa.
Ambassadors

Rob Ripma
Rob Ripma is the co-owner of Sabrewing Nature Tours and leads birding and photography tours around the world. He has traveled and birded extensively throughout the Americas and spent time...
Rob Ripma
Rob Ripma is the co-owner of Sabrewing Nature Tours and leads birding and photography tours around the world. He has traveled and birded extensively throughout the Americas and spent time...

Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson retired from Lockheed Martin as their professional staff photographer for 30 years. He is currently an obsessed digiscoper and brand ambassador for Kowa Sporting Optics US.
Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson retired from Lockheed Martin as their professional staff photographer for 30 years. He is currently an obsessed digiscoper and brand ambassador for Kowa Sporting Optics US.

Roger Morales
Roger Morales is an enthusiastic Panamanian naturalist with over eight years of experience in wildlife exploration in Panama. He presently works as a guide at our sponsored lodge Tranquilo Bay...
Roger Morales
Roger Morales is an enthusiastic Panamanian naturalist with over eight years of experience in wildlife exploration in Panama. He presently works as a guide at our sponsored lodge Tranquilo Bay...

Shae Warnick
Shae Warnick is an artist living in southeastern Idaho.
Shae Warnick
Shae Warnick is an artist living in southeastern Idaho.

Simon Brumby
Simon Brumby born in the UK moved to the Netherlands in 2008, here amongst the polders and dunes is where his passion for recording the natural world around him burgeoned.
Simon Brumby
Simon Brumby born in the UK moved to the Netherlands in 2008, here amongst the polders and dunes is where his passion for recording the natural world around him burgeoned.

Tyler & Mollie Ficker
Tyler and Mollie Ficker are Cincinnati natives who met through birding at The Ohio State University. They both worked on Ohio State’s Lights Out Buckeyes project, an initiative to make...
Tyler & Mollie Ficker
Tyler and Mollie Ficker are Cincinnati natives who met through birding at The Ohio State University. They both worked on Ohio State’s Lights Out Buckeyes project, an initiative to make...