As a photographer, Phil Green hopes to promote wildlife conservation by documenting the beauty and diversity of the life on earth.
If you would like to use one of Phil’s photos, just let him know at [email protected].
Phil started out cutting trails in North Cascades National Park followed by a brief career in land surveying. Next up in his eclectic background he worked as a farm-crew boss, a college-level math professor, and a naturalist for The Nature Conservancy. He is perhaps best known for having lived for many years as the preserve steward on Yellow Island.
Now in retirement, he is one of the most prolific eBirders in San Juan County. Over 200 of his recordings and photographs, now in the Macaulay Library of Sound at Cornell University, were used in the development of the Merlin bird ID app.
Of his many accomplishments, Phil tells us that he is most proud of the fact that he was eventually accepted as one of their own into the secretive society of black oystercatchers.
“It only took eleven years,” Phil reported, “I chuckle sometimes when I think of the easy time that Jane Goodall had with those chimpanzees in Africa. Just let her try to earn the trust of a group of Haematopus!”
Truth be told, when the tide is especially low, Phil can still be sometimes seen running along the rocky shores, right along with his orange-eyed brethren.