Brian E. Small has been a full-time professional bird photographer for more than 15 years. He started birding and photographing at the tender age of four with the encouragement of his ornithologist father Arnold Small. Brian has been a regular columnist for WildBird magazine for the past nine years writing articles on both birding and bird photography. He has led instructional photography workshops and done photography seminars at numerous birding/nature festivals around the United States. Also, he is currently the Photo Editor for the American Birding Association's Birding magazine.
Just some of Brian's photo credits include: Time, The New York Times, Audubon, Birder's World, Birding, WildBird, Living Bird, Bird Watcher's Digest, North American Birds, Birder's Journal, Western Birds, Nature Conservancy, Wildlife Conservation, Outdoor California and Arizona Wildlife Views.
Brian was also selected as one of the primary photographers for Kenn Kaufman's new field guide to the Birds of North America. His work has been featured in Stokes Field Guides, Audubon Field Guides, Peterson Field Guides, Thayer Birding Software and in numerous books and calendars from The National Audubon Society, Houghton-Mifflin, HarperCollins, Academic Press, Storey Books, The Cornell Labratory of Ornithology, Mountain Press, Falcon Press, Adventure Publishing, Ibis Publishing, Companion Press and many more.