Bill Clark
Bill Clark is a photographer, author, and lecturer and has over 45 years experience working with birds of prey, including 5 years as Director of NWF's Raptor Information Center. He has published numerous articles on raptor subjects; has traveled extensively worldwide studying, observing, and photographing raptors; and regularly leads raptor and birding tours and workshops, both home and abroad, with his company, Raptours.
Bill has been living in the Rio Grande Valley since 2002. He regularly teaches evening and weekend courses on raptor field identification and biology, including for the World Birding Center and Valley Nature Center, and frequently presents lectures on raptor subjects. He has written a raptor field guide for Europe, and is writing two others for Africa and for Mexico and Central America. He is a coauthor of the Photographic Guide to North American Raptors and the completely revised Peterson series guide, Hawks. He also has on-going research projects on Harlan's Hawk, White-tailed Hawk, and Harris's Hawk. Some of his latest scientific papers deal with raptor taxonomy.
Bill has a personal goal to see and photograph all of the world's diurnal raptors, and has already seen most of the world's eagles.