I'm an avid birder. I've birded on six continents.
As of October, 2023, my life list - the list of all bird species I've seen in the world so far - is approximately 2,912 species.
My latest additions are 34 species in Cuba in 2023, 12 new species seen in Nome, Alaska, in June-July 2021, 202 species in Borneo in June-July 2018, and five Andean Condors and many Hoatzins, seen during a trip to Ecuador in May-June, 2017.
There are more than 10,700 species in the world, so I've seen about 27% of the world's bird species. I'm not a hard-core lister like the ones in the movie/book The Big Year, but I do like to travel to new places to observe wildlife, especially birds. (See the Travel Photos tab for some photos of my trips.)
I created a website, Birds of New York State, posted on the SUNY Adirondack Library's web page. One tab lists the birds seen on the SUNY Adirondack campus in recent years.
I took a photo of this Red-billed Tropicbird (right) on its nest on the steep, mountainous island of Little Tobago. I visited the country Trinidad and Tobago in Dec. 2012/Jan. 2013. (T&T is north of Venezuela, in the Caribbean.) This large bird was sitting on a chick in its nest. Its territory is only as big as its nest, so it didn't care that I was a few feet away. The bird is 41 inches from beak tip to tail. See more photos from this trip on the Travel Photos link.
I'm a long-time member of the Southern Adirondack Audubon Society, serve on the board and am the newsletter editor. I'm also a member of the Hudson-Mohawk Bird Club, American Birding Association and N.Y.S Ornithological Association.
Below is a photo of me with a perched California Condor at the Grand Canyon, a lifer from 2015. California Condors have a 10-foot wingspan!
My latest additions are 34 species in Cuba in 2023, 12 new species seen in Nome, Alaska, in June-July 2021, 202 species in Borneo in June-July 2018, and five Andean Condors and many Hoatzins, seen during a trip to Ecuador in May-June, 2017.
There are more than 10,700 species in the world, so I've seen about 27% of the world's bird species. I'm not a hard-core lister like the ones in the movie/book The Big Year, but I do like to travel to new places to observe wildlife, especially birds. (See the Travel Photos tab for some photos of my trips.)
I created a website, Birds of New York State, posted on the SUNY Adirondack Library's web page. One tab lists the birds seen on the SUNY Adirondack campus in recent years.
I took a photo of this Red-billed Tropicbird (right) on its nest on the steep, mountainous island of Little Tobago. I visited the country Trinidad and Tobago in Dec. 2012/Jan. 2013. (T&T is north of Venezuela, in the Caribbean.) This large bird was sitting on a chick in its nest. Its territory is only as big as its nest, so it didn't care that I was a few feet away. The bird is 41 inches from beak tip to tail. See more photos from this trip on the Travel Photos link.
I'm a long-time member of the Southern Adirondack Audubon Society, serve on the board and am the newsletter editor. I'm also a member of the Hudson-Mohawk Bird Club, American Birding Association and N.Y.S Ornithological Association.
Below is a photo of me with a perched California Condor at the Grand Canyon, a lifer from 2015. California Condors have a 10-foot wingspan!