James Parnell is retired from the Biology faculty at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. His professional career involved teaching vertebrate biology and conducting research on coastal bird populations. He is co-author and primary photographer for regional books on birds, mammals and freshwater fishes. Currently he is active in wildlife photography, especially North American birds and small mammals, but has traveled and photographed in Antarctica, East Africa, Cost Rica, the Galapagos and Australia. He has an extensive collection of images of freshwater fishes, birds and mammals. All are available for sale.
