 Peter
Burke
Peter Burke is a birder,
artist and author who started birding 30 years ago. After obtaining
a BSc. degree in Biology and instruction in Fine
Arts, Peter worked in nature interpretation and various avian research
projects before devoting much of his time to illustrating. He has co-authored
various articles on bird identification and biology, and served as Chair
on the Ontario Bird Records Committee. Peter has birded extensively throughout
Canada and much of the USA and has traveled abroad to western and southern
South America (with an emphasis on Chile), Papua New Guinea, much of
Central America and Cuba. He is an accomplished artist as is evident
from his artwork in the identification and biology of the New World
Blackbirds (Jaramillo and Burke, Princeton University Press), the third and fourth
editions of the National Geographic Society’s Birds of North America (J. Dunn), Birds
at Your Feeder (E. H. Dunn & D. L. Tessaglia-Hymes)
and Birds of Chile (A. Jaramillo, P. Burke, D. Beadle). He is also a
contributing artist to the upcoming Field Guide to the Birds of Peru (T. Schulenberg et. al.) and the three volume series Birds
of Brazil (B. Whitney et. al.). He has recently completed illustrating part of
the Dragonflies and Damselfies of Algonquin Park, Ontario (C. D. Jones,
et. al.) a group of animals which has attracted his interests for the
past 15 years. Apart from tour leading for the past 10 years, Peter enjoys
summers filled with fieldwork in his home province of Ontario where he
lives with his wife Dawn and their three children.
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