Taylor Berry
Wildlife Curator
Team member since 2012
Taylor came to Reflection Riding in 2012 as a volunteer working with our native animals. He began his career as a seasonal interpretive park ranger for the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation while he was in college at Tennessee Tech. He got involved with the raptor program at TDEC and learned how to give presentations to the public with birds of prey. He held a bald eagle for the first time in 2009, and he was hooked. Taylor was also the teaching assistant for a college class called Backcountry Adventure, where his role was to take novices out into the woods and teach them how to survive.
He finished school with a degree in Wildlife Biology and a concentration in Wildlife focusing on raptors and moved back to Chattanooga. He worked at the Tennessee Aquarium early on and then came to Reflection Riding to take care of our animals. Taylor loves animals so much that he also spends a few days a week working with Dr. Chris Keller at the Mountain Hospital for Animals. Taylor is also a certified Professional Member of the International Association of Avian Trainers and Educators since 2018 and teaches others how to care for raptors.
When he’s not working, you can find Taylor working on cars, camping and climbing, and working towards a goal of climbing all of the 14,000-foot peaks in Colorado… he’s got four so far.
taylor@reflectionriding.org