My osprey on the cover of Audubon Magazine. Words by David Gessner. A story worth telling.

I still remember the first time I laid my tiny seven year old hands on an Audubon Field Guide to Birds. I read it from front to back in days and marveled at every single feather covered creature that inhabited those pages. 

Today, one of my images graces the cover of the magazine that gave birth to that field guide. And I’m honored beyond words.

But the cover isn’t the part that matters most. The image is doing a job. It’s pointing at a serious problem happening to these birds right now. The overfishing of menhaden has pushed ospreys back toward the kind of struggle we haven’t seen since the DDT era. They came back once. Today they’re fighting to hold on.

They need help. So share this. If you have the magazine, share it. If you don’t, go get it. The article was written by a good friend of mine, David Gessner, and it lays out exactly what’s happening and what needs to stop.