THE FILE 5,000+ 35mm.

OVERVIEW Birds are the primary focus of the collection.

NATURAL HISTORY More than 500 species of birds, including common backyard and feeder birds, falcons, hawks, herons, owls, shorebirds, songbirds, waterfowl, woodpeckers and wood warblers. Some mammals and butterflies.

SPECIALTIES North American birds: Crisp, uncluttered closeups, behaviors, accurate identifications. Urban wildlife.

GEOGRAPHIC AREAS New York State including New York City. New Jersey. Connecticut. Florida. Southeast Arizona. Northwest Washington State and southwest British Columbia. Costa Rica. Thailand. West Malaysia. Borneo. Nepal. Israel.

RECENT COVERAGE New York State: 300 species of birds; New York City wildlife, including more than 215 species of birds, gray squirrels, chipmunks and raccoons; red-tailed hawks nesting on Fifth Avenue and in Riverside Park; Central Park eastern screech owls; peregrine falcons nesting at Brooklyn Bridge and Riverside Church; urban nesting American kestrels; Pelham Bay Park and New York Botanical Garden, including nesting great horned owls and Cooper's hawks; Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Florida: Circle B Bar Reserve, Corkscrew Swamp, J.N. "Ding" Darling NWR, Everglades NP, Fort DeSoto Park, Myakka River State Park, Oscar Scherer State Park, Venice Heron Rookery, barred owl, limpkin, osprey, purple gallinule, red-shouldered hawk, roseate spoonbill, sandhill crane, Florida scrub jay, white pelican, snail kite, and wood stork. Arizona: Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Madera Canyon, black-headed grosbeak, cactus wren, gila woodpecker, hooded oriole. Costa Rica: Social flycatcher, great kiskadee, blue-gray tanager. Borneo: Sunbirds, hornbills, kingfishers. West Malaysia: Oriental honey buzzard, bee-eaters, bulbuls. Thailand: Migrating raptors, trogons, babblers, bulbuls, kingfishers, thrushes, old world flycatchers. Israel: White stork, honey-buzzard, hoopoe, old world warblers. Nepal: Owls, songbirds and migrating raptors including Steppe eagles, vultures and black kites.

CREDITS Magazines/Newspapers: Africa Birds & Birding, American Birds, Avenue, Bird Watcher’s Digest, Birder's World, BirdWatching, Birding, Birding Asia, Birds and Blooms, Defenders, Kingbird, Islands, Hawk Mountain News, Mass. Audubon Connections, National Geographic Explorer, National Parks, National Wildlife, Natural History, New York Daily News, New York Post, New York Times, North American Birds, Professional Women Photographers, Puddler, Quebec Oiseaux, Terre Sauvage, Universum, Urban Audubon, WildBird, Wildlife Conservation, Winging It, Zoogoer. Author/Photographer: "Red-tails Take Manhattan" (Birder’s World). Books: Henry N. Abrams, Adventure Publications, BBC Books, Bloomsbury Publishing, Christopher Helm, Clarkson Potter, D & G Publishing, Great Smoky Mountains Association, Graphic Arts Center, Hampton-Brown, Heinemann Library, Mastervision, McGraw-Hill, Northword, Rodale, Rourke Publishing, Stackpole. Author: Puffins (Creative Co.). Calendars: Audubon Songbirds Wall Calendar, Audubon Birds Gallery, Gladstone Songbirds & Birdsong, Sanibel-Captiva Nature. Exhibits: American Museum of Natural History, Florida Aquarium, Henry Luce Nature Observatory, Indiana State Museum, Las Vegas Springs Preserve Museum. Advertising/Corporate: Turner Broadcasting public relations. Websites: American Museum of Natural History, Brooklyn Botanical Garden, Smithsonian magazine. Member: ASPP, NANPA, PPA.

COMMENTS Stock and assignment photographer. Natural history writer. All subjects accurately captioned. All captive subjects clearly identified.

NONEDITORIAL SERVICES A/V slide presentations for bird clubs, photography clubs, libraries and civic groups: "Birds of Central Park," "Birds of New York City," "Birding Hot Spots of Thailand and Malaysia" and "Warbler Identification."