Doug Wechsler
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Doug Wechsler


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THE FILE 40,000 35mm. 10,000 digital.
NATURAL HISTORY Emphasis on wildlife behavior and ecology. Tropical forests, plants and wildlife. North American wildlife, especially amphibians, insects, reptiles. Wetlands, salt marshes, vernal pools, Sonoran Desert, cactus, biomes. Environmental topics. Many botanical subjects such as fruit types, primitive plants. Horseshoe crabs, onychophorans, tarsiers, tuatara, whisk fern, liverwort.
GENERAL STOCK Biologists at work in lab and field. Bison farm, charcoal making, parataxonomists (Costa Rica), old Havana. People in nature.
ENVIRONMENTAL Clear-cutting, household hazardous waste, tropical rainforest destruction, water pollution, haze in Bornean forests from Indonesian forest fires.
SPECIALTIES Rainforests around the world. Frogs. Weird insects. Common insects. Birds. Horseshoe crabs. Pine Barrens (NJ). Vernal pools. Salt marshes. Ephemeral wetlands.
GEOGRAPHIC AREAS Asia/Pacific: Borneo (Indonesia and Malaysia), Philippines. Africa: Cameroon. Latin America: Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Guyana, Puerto Rico. U.S.: Arizona, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Washington.
RECENT COVERAGE Eastern U.S. wetlands. Salt marshes. Borneo Biodiversity Expedition. Vernal pools. Red knots. Horseshoe crabs. Playas.
CREDITS Magazines: Birder's World, Continental, Discover, Equinox, Forbes, Geo (Germany), International/ National Wildlife, National Geographic, Natural History, Reader's Digest, Der Spiegel, Weekly Reader. Books: Wm. C. Brown, Harcourt, Holt, Houghton Mifflin, Macmillan, Penguin, Saunders, Scientific American, Scott Foresman, Time-Life. Author/Photographer: Birding (Boyds Mills Press), Bizarre Birds (Cobblehill Books), Bizarre Bugs (International Wildlife, Ranger Rick).Calendars: Advil, Audubon, Camden House, National Geographic, World Wildlife. Exhibits: American Museum of Natural History, New England Science Center, Smithsonian; Bronx, Louisville, Philadelphia and St. Louis zoos. CDs: Audubon, Houghton Mifflin, Microsoft, Sonic Images.
RELATED CREDENTIALS/SKILLS Director of world's largest collection of bird photographs (see VIREO listing). Ornithologist, wildlife biologist. Author of magazine articles and 21 children's books.
NONEDITORIAL SERVICES Consultant on content for natural history texts and CD-ROMs. Illustrated lectures.
Doug Wechsler
c/o ANSP 1900 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy.
Philadelphia PA 19103-1101

Phone:
215 299-1069

Fax:
215 299-1182

Email:
wechsler@ansp.org

Website:
www.dougwechsler.com

Endangered because of its limited range and destruction of its wetland breeding sites, Pine Barrens Treefrogs are still scattered about the extensive pine lands of southern New Jersey. Males call on spring nights to attract females to the borders of breeding ponds.
Doug Wechsler

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