I am deeply saddened to hear about the passing of my friend and mentor, Victor Skrebneski. I met Victor in the fall of 1961. I was a great fan of his work and I phoned his studio manager hoping to arrange to apply for a job as his assistant. When…

The legendary Île aux Perroquets In August of 2019, I took a trip to Canada with my dear friend Andy Hays, to whom I owe my love affair with birds, Mike Parr, the president of the American Bird Conservancy and Shoaib Tareen, a board member. I had the sole goal…

Rwanda is the best place in the world to trek to see Silverback Mountain Gorillas and they are indeed thrilling to visit. But for me, equal in thrill factor, is the spectacular bird population of this tiny, but truly fascinating country.  On the search for African birds I traveled to…

An essay from Bringing Back the Birdsby John W. Fitzpatrick, executive director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology My book, Bringing Back the Birds, in partnership with the American Bird Conservancy, contains fantastic essays by several incredible writers. One of my favorite pieces that gripped me the most was the…