The Art Box - Episode 96 - Thrashers, Mojave Desert, Flyways, Audubon Society and Amazing Photographer - Meet Alex Harper

This was a Sunday recording episode to beat all, meet Alex Harper, Community and Education Chair for the Red Rock Audubon Society. Linda and Steve could have talked/learned from Alex for hours, but alas he needed to get home to Las Vegas. 

Avian field work brought Alex from South Florida to Las Vegas in 2015, and he has been finding rarities in the desert ever since. He first began guiding as a volunteer trip leader for the Audubon chapter in Miami as a teenager and took visiting birders around the city for specialties while in high school. His college education is in Environmental Science and he has done subsequent avian field work in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, California, the Florida Keys and Nevada. Alex is the flightiest of our team, as he heads up to Alaska every summer to guide, returning to Vegas for the fall, winter and spring. Alex is a registered Emergency Medical Technician and Wilderness First Responder. He began serving on the state records committee beginning in 2019.

We loved these quotes.

'The scientific and analytical side help me make sense help me make sense of the world and the artist side helps me make sense of myself.'

'The desert just has a different way of operating.'

You can watch Alex presenting at a TEDx seminar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVK9vt9QTGI

The Silver State of Birding podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/silverstatebirding