Brian Gibbons
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Upcoming Tours
- Oct 03, 08: Mexico: Barranca del Cobre
- Dec 28, 08: Belize: Chan Chich New Year
- Jan 10, 09: Short West Mexico
- Jan 16, 09: The Sierra Madre
- Jan 19, 09: Short West Mexico
- Feb 07, 09: NE Mexico: The Sierra Madre Oriental
- Apr 17, 09: Colorado Grouse
- May 09, 09: Southern Mexico: Highlands & Lowlands of Chiapas
- Oct 10, 09: Mexico: Barranca del Cobre
Recent Posts
- May 23, 08: Colorado Grouse
- Feb 18, 08: Short West Mexico 2
- Feb 15, 08: Short West Mexico 1
- Oct 23, 07: Barranca del Cobre
- May 16, 07: Colorado Grouse
- Mar 13, 07: Short West Mexico IV
- Mar 02, 07: Short West Mexico III
- May 05, 06: Barranca del Cobre
- Mar 02, 06: Short West Mexico 4
- Mar 02, 06: Short West Mexico 3
Brian Gibbons was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. He took an interest in all things wild at a young age, but has specialized in birds since age 10. Brian graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University in east Texas with a B.S. in biology. Since that time he has worked on a variety of field ornithology research projects, from the Bering Sea and the midnight sun of the North Slope of Alaska to the Dominican Republic. From 1998 to 2000 he was an observer for the Migration Over the Gulf Project sponsored by a Minerals Management Service grant and administered by Louisiana State University. The project involved placing observers on oil and gas platforms throughout the Gulf of Mexico. The goal was to assess the impact of these platforms on the several hundred million trans-Gulf migrants that pass through the region in both spring and fall. More recently he has worked with the Smithsonian Institution in Jamaica, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Cuba as part of a team researching West Nile Virus, and assessing the role of migratory birds in the dispersal of the virus. Recreational birding and travel have taken him to The Great Wall in China, Machu Picchu in Peru, and the Himalayas in Nepal. One of his primary birding mentors was the late Al Valentine, a bird bander, who helped to instill a love of handling birds and learning from them. For many years Brian’s field research has involved banding. His most amazing recoveries were a female Wilson’s Warbler that had been banded in Alaska and was captured by Brian in Colorado, and a Sooty Tern that perished after a hurricane on the Texas coast; it had plied the Gulf of Mexico and the oceans of the world for 24 years.