A few magazine covers to share this month. The cover of Living Bird magazine shows a female Sooty Grouse I photographed on Mt. Rainier last winter. One of my photos also appears on the back cover, a calling Herring Gull. You can receive Living Bird by joining The Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
The cover of the [...]

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is located in one of the least protected and most important habitat types for birds in all of Alaska – the Arctic Coastal Plain. Birds converge on the region and its abundant wetlands annually to rear young in the relatively safe, food rich environment. They come from wintering areas that [...]

I have begun the long and tedious task of scanning my historical slide archive and will be posting some of the images here from time to time. Luckily I have some motivation to do so as I’m getting the chance to look back through many memorable experiences and exciting moments!
I started the process by [...]

I had the opportunity to appear on NPR’s Morning Edition this week. Click the link to see some photos of grouse on NPR’s website.

My photographs and article on the status of the endangered and enigmatic Ivory Gull are now available on line at the Living Bird website

Gerrit was the primary photographer for the unprecedented “State of the Birds” report that was produced by a coalition of leading environmental organizations along with state and federal environmental agencies
and announced by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today.
“Birds are bellwethers of our natural and cultural health as a nation—they are indicators of the integrity [...]