Robert Winkler has written nature essays for The New York Times, National Wildlife, Salon.com, and many other magazines, newspapers, and Web sites. A naturalist with over 30 years of field experience, he has been a consulting writer for International Masters (a publisher of wildlife natural histories), his bird photographs have been widely published and exhibited, and he contributed to Connecticut ornithology with his checklist of the birds of Sherwood Island State Park. His Web site has won many awards, and he has been a photography columnist for Travel & Leisure. His publication credits include Reader’s Digest, USA Today, The Weekly Standard, and The Christian Science Monitor. He is the author of Going Wild: Adventures with Birds in the Suburban Wilderness (National Geographic Books, 2003). He lives in Connecticut beside the south branch of the Pootatuck River. Email: Robert Winkler