René Corado

René Corado nació en Guatemala y desde 1981 reside en California, Estados Unidos. Es biólogo y es el gerente de la Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology, el museo con la colección más grande de huevos y nidos de aves del mundo, con más de un millón de huevos y más de veinte mil nidos. Desde finales de 1980 ha conducido proyectos de investigación en las selvas amazónicas de Ecuador, lo mismo que en Costa Rica y California, en el 2001, inicio un proyecto de reproducción y distribución de aves en Guatemala, en el presente visita este país dos veces por año para conducir sus investigaciones. Previamente ha publicado Egg & Nest con Rosamond Purcell y Linnea Hall (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008); Dreams of a Shoeshine Boy (Vanity Press, 2011) edito Birds' Nests of the World (Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology, 2012) previamente publicado en Japones. Este es el primer libro del autor publicado en español. René Corado was born in Guatemala and lives in California, United States since 1981. He is a biologist and is the Collections Manager of the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology, the Museum with the largest collection of eggs and nests of birds of the world, with more than one million eggs and more than twenty thousand nests. Since late 1980’s he conducted research projects in the Amazon jungle of Ecuador, as well as in Costa Rica and California, in 2001, started a project of reproduction and distribution of birds in Guatemala, on the present visit this country twice a year to conduct his research. He has previously published Egg & Nest with Rosamond Purcell, Linnea Hall (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008); Dreams of a Shoeshine Boy (Vanity Press, 2011) Edited Birds' Nests of the World (Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology, 2012) previously published in Japanese. This is the first book of the author published in Spanish. I was born in a village of 13 houses El Chicał, Morazán, Dept. El Progreso. When I was 8 years old my family moved me to the capital (Guatemala City) in order to help bring food to the house I went to school in the morning and worked as shoeshine boy in the afternoon. I asked for food scraps to take my siblings and the times that I did not get enough, I had to look for food for myself in trash where I had to compete with the dogs. I came to California in 1981 with only sixth grade of schooling, undocumented and with no one here, just with a heart full of dreams. I worked in different jobs as, gardener, painter, dishwasher, cook, house cleaner, welder, put wallpaper in hotels, opened trenches for drains etc. I started to work as a gardener in a Museum and I really liked the work conducted by biologists and at night I started to go to school. Now, I am a biologist and the Collections Manager of the Museum where I was the gardener, I'm ornithologist (branch of biology that studies birds) and Oologist (branch of biology that studies birds eggs). I volunteer in my community in hospitals, recovery houses and jails for people with alcohol and drug problems because I also have a degree of Addictions Disorders. This is my book, my life’s dreams that I could achieve, dreams that all we can achieve if we want to and we put action. I hope that this book will inspire someone to achieve their dreams like I did and if you believe that your life is too hard, read my book and see hard I worked, started on zero, never gave up and at the end I achieve my dream. It is a story of hope.