Dan Cooper is my guest on The Bird Banter Podcast #87, and we talk about his youth as a young California birder in the fabulous birding community that was California in the latter 20th century, about his career as an ecological monitoring and research consultant, and about birding passions. Enjoy.
I feel like every time I get to talk with a birder who grew up birding in California during what I think of as the golden age of birding there, the 1960-1990 timer range, I learn lots, enjoy the stories, and am a bit envious of their experiences. Dan Cooper was a part of that birding community, and as a podcast guest shares some of his stories of that time and more.
We talk about a mutual friend John Sterling (epoisode #10) who was one of the trip leaders and guides on a trip I took to Kenya with three prior guests, Bruce LaBar, Heather Ballash and Marcus Roening. They are also the Pierce County birders I talk about in the introduction.
It was fun to hear Dan talk about his achieving his PhD recently on the topic of urban birds. Here is an article about the Goshawks of Berlin, and here is a link to the ABC Birding club meeting with Ed Deal when he talked about his study of Cooper’s Hawks in the Seattle Area.
I wish you all a great New Year, great birding and safe travels as time passes.