Brian E. Small has been a full-time professional bird photographer for more than 20 years. He started birding and photographing at the tender age of four with the encouragement of his father Dr. Arnold Small. Dr. Small was a renowned ornithologist, teacher and a founding father of the American Birding Association.
Brian has been a regular columnist for WildBird magazine for the past 12 years writing articles on birding, bird finding and identification along with bird photography. He also currently serves as the Photo Editor for the American Birding Association's membership magazine Birding.
Just some of Brian's magazine photo credits include: Time, New York Times, Audubon, Birder's World, Birding, WildBird, Bird Watcher's Digest, North American Birds, Birder's Journal, Western Birds, Nature Conservancy, Wildlife Conservation, Outdoor California, Living Bird, Outdoor Alabama, Rio Grande Valley Nature, National Wildlife, Arizona Wildlife Views and many more.
Brian was selected as one of the primary photographers for Kenn Kaufman's 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 Geographic Society, Audubon Society, Houghton-Mifflin, HarperCollins, Academic Press, Mountain Press, Falcon Press, Ibis Publishing, Companion Press, Cornell University, Princeton University Press and many more.
