January 2008: Jim Zipp
My life revolves around birds. If I’m not photographing birds I’m either birding or, at our bird store, The Fat Robin! I got into birding sort of through the back door. I decided I wanted to get into photography and shoot wildlife like deer, etc. I found out pretty fast that there are a lot more birds than other wildlife and found myself being drawn more and more into birding itself and thankfully, I’ve never looked back.
About Jim
Jim has been photographing nature and wildlife for more than twenty five years. His first published photograph was of a Saw-Whet Owl in The National Audubon Society’s Encyclopedia of North American Birds in 1980. That same year he brought Brian Wheeler to Cape May for his first time and when they got back to Connecticut they built and ran a hawk banding station at Lighthouse Point which Jim continued to run for 18 years. While hawks and owls are what he is best known for he by no means limits himself to them. He travels throughout North America from Alaska to Florida when time permits in search of new images with Alaska being a favorite place that draws him back time and time again. Jim is represented by agencies around the world and also keeps his own stock files on www.jimzipp.com . When not in the field he’s at The Fat Robin, a birding store he operates with wife Carol and son Ryan.
Jim’s award winning images of the natural world have been featured in publications from National Geographic Magazine, Time Magazine, GEO and Audubon to Birder’s World, Wildbird, Discovery, Nature Conservancy and ABA’s Birding Magazine as well as numerous books and field guides around the world.
