The Recordists
 | Greg Budney Interim Director Curator, Audio Collection Greg joined the Lab in 1980 and became curator of the sound collection in 1987. Greg is a skilled animal recordist with an extensive knowledge of birds and their vocal behavior. He has recorded all across the Western Hemisphere. Under his direction, the Macaulay Library audio archive has grown to more than 160,000 recordings, the largest such collection in the world. Greg is overseeing the digitization of the sound and video archives to make Macaulay Library holdings digitally accessible to everyone. | ||
 | Michael J. Andersen Assistant Curator, Terrestrial Audio Collection Mike has been birding since 1994 and started recording birds on a trip to Mexico in 2000. He has recorded birds throughout the New World. His most recent travels have taken him to the North Slope of Alaska and the esteros grasslands in northeast Argentina. He is an alum of Cornell University, and he plans to pursue graduate studies in avian systematics. | ||
 | Gerrit Vyn Audio Production Engineer Gerrit joined the Macaulay Library staff in 2004 after several seasons of biological field work in Alaska and a two-year stint directing a conservation organization in southern Africa. As a field biologist and a wildlife photographer, he has honed his skills in "getting close" and has developed the patience and intuition requisite for recording audio of North America's more elusive species. He recently produced the definitive collection of North American owl vocalizations on the two-CD set, Voices of North American Owls. | ||
 | Martha Fischer Terrestrial Audio Archivist Martha has been interested in birds and passionate about conservation all her life. She joined the Lab in 1993, first working for a variety of projects in the Education department, then becoming an archivist in 1997. Martha has recorded the songs and calls of many species of birds and frogs around New York State. She has also edited the Partners in Flight booklet Citizen's Guide to Migratory Bird Conservation, and coordinated the very first International Migratory Bird Day celebration. | ||
 | Benjamin Clock Assistant Curator, Visual Media Collections Ben's work for the Macaulay Library includes editing and archiving video footage of birds. He began birding at the age of 12, in the foothills of the Berkshires in northwestern Connecticut. He is also an accomplished artist. His birds-of-paradise artwork graced the cover of the October 2006 issue of The Auk. He will be working on the Big Year project in Florida, Texas, and Alaska during 2007. | ||
 | Jim Goetz Curatorial Associate II, Visual Media Collections Jim joined the Lab in 2003 to assist in curating its natural history video collection. Before that he conducted extensive field research throughout North America and the Caribbean, and became hooked on Hispaniola (the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic). He earned his M.S. at the College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York, with a thesis that uncovered the highly unusual polygynandrous breeding ecology of the secretive Bicknell's Thrush. | ||
 | Eric Liner Video Production Engineer Eric joined the Lab in 2005 after working as a freelance producer, videographer, soundperson, and camera assistant on narrative films, documentaries, and television programs. While at film school, his short, "Automatism," was awarded "Outstanding Short Film" at the Vermont film festival. Eric has always been inspired by the natural world, landscapes, and wildlife and has shot in Peru, Costa Rica, Jamaica, and Cuba. Eric is assisting with the Big Year as a videographer. | ||
 | Larry Arbanas Videographer Larry is a Lab research associate and an active contributor to the Macaulay Library's video collections. In may 2006, he and Ben Clock spent a month in the Sky Island of Arizona and Mexico to collect high-definition video of birds not already in the Macaulay Library collection. | ||
 | David Owen Brown Senior Video Producer David has been with the Macaulay Library since 2003, after many years spent filming wildlife. He traveled to exotic and remote locations filming expeditions with the Cousteau Society for seven years. He started Passage Productions, a documentary film company and stock house, which produced the first live, interactive broadcast from underwater onto the Internet. | ||
 | Tim Barksdale Research Associate Tim has been passionately pursuing birds with a camera for the last 20 years. His work is the foundation of the Macaulay Library video collection. He is also president and principal cameraman of Birdman Productions. Traveling across the United States into Central and South America, Tim has captured a wealth of behavioral diversity in his footage. Recently Tim has shot for the Lab of Ornithology in Hawaii, Alaska, the Pribilofs and in Cuba. |