Milly had no childhood dreams of becoming a pilot and no history of aviation in her family. Still, she could see how being a bird nerd and having access to the airways could be the start of an adventure. So, in 2016 she started lessons and now has a recreational pilot licence. Initially, Milly had thought she might follow migratory birds to Siberia. It’s good to aim high!In 2015, Zoologist and artist Amellia Formby (AKA Microlight Milly) decided to become a pilot and learn how to fly a microlight aircraft in order it was to shine a light on the plight of the world’s most endangered group of bird species – migratory shorebirds.In May 2018, she was sponsored by the Peel-Harvey Catchment Council in WA and pooled money from a crowdfunding campaign and Australian adventurer, Dick Smith. A few years on, she had enough money for her own aircraft, an Airborne M4 Sport microlight, and she was ready to set off on the adventure of a lifetime. So Wing Threads was launched.Since then she’s been the subject of and illustrated the book, A Shorebird Flying Adventure, had an ABC documentary made about her, and touched the lives of so many, all in the name of shorebirds!