Biography of Jim Zipp, the presenter for June Annual Dinner program: Jim has been birding and photographing nature and wildlife for over thirty years. His first published photograph was a Saw-Whet Owl in "The National Audubon Society's Encyclopedia of North American Birds" in 1980. Since then his work has appeared regularly in numerous magazines from National Geographic, Birders World, Birding, and Wildbird in addition to field guides, brochures, textbooks, educational CD ROM programs and calendars throughout the world. He has traveled throughout North America from Alaska to Mexico in search of new images with Alaska being a favorite that draws him back again and again.
In addition to being a photographer, Jim also leads birding walks and conducts bird photography seminars. He was also a federally licensed bird bander for 18 years operating the hawk banding station at Lighthouse Point in New Haven, CT, one of New England's premier hawk migration locations where thousands of hawks are counted each fall. When he isn't in the field he is at The Fat Robin Wild Bird and Nature Shop in Hamden, CT where he and his wife Carol run one of the largest birding shops in the state