Ross Ahmed has been an ornithologist for 30 years, working professionally for the last 15. He is a member of the British Ornithologists' Union Records Committee (BOURC), which maintains the official list of birds recorded in Britain, and at a county level is a member of the Northumberland County Records Committee and the Durham Records Committee. He has published a number of articles in various magazines and journals, and was awarded the Carl Zeiss Award by British Birds in 2021.