René Corado was born in a village of 13 houses El Chicał, Morazán, Dept. El Progreso. When he was 8 years old his family moved to the capital (Guatemala City) in order to help bring food to the house. He attended school in the morning and worked as a shoeshine boy in the afternoon. He begged for food scraps to take to his siblings and the times that he did not get enough, he had to look for food for himself in the trash where he had to compete with the street dogs.

In 1981 René came to California with only sixth grade of schooling, undocumented and knew no one here. He arrived just with a heart full of dreams. He worked in different jobs as, gardener, painter, dishwasher, cook, house cleaner, welder, put wallpaper in hotels, opened trenches for drains etc. He started to work as a gardener in a  bird museum where he is still working right now.  Working in a museum full of biologists and scientists sparked his curiosity for biology and birds. He decided he wanted to be one of them and started to go to school after work. 

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Now, he is a renown biologist and the Collections Manager of the Museum where he was the gardener.  He is an ornithologist (branch of biology that studies birds) and oologist (branch of biology that studies birds eggs). He volunteers in his community in hospitals, recovery houses and jails for people with alcohol and drug problems because he also has a degree on Addictions Disorders.