Originally from the Midwest, Bob Behrstock was trained as a fisheries biologist in Northern California where he birded, taught, and curated at a university fish museum. Subsequently, he moved to Houston, Texas, where he was based while leading birding tours for 19 years--primarily in Latin America. Bob spent the last several years performing faunal surveys as well as assessing birding trail sites and creating trail map text for two of the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail Maps and the three subsequent Great Texas Wildlife Trails, as well as trails in Maryland, Virginia, and far Western Texas.

An aggressive photographer, he's photographed dragonflies and butterflies along the Eastern seaboard and from the Florida Keys to Oregon, finding many state records and several U.S. records in the process. During the last four years, he's been a presenter and field trip leader at birding, butterfly and dragonfly festivals in Galveston, the Rio Grande Valley, and Southeast Arizona. Bob has authored or co-authored more than 30 popular and scientific papers concerning fishes, birds, dragonflies, and butterflies in the U.S. and Latin America, and prepared several of the family accounts for The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior. Hundreds of his bird and insect photos have been published in a variety of venues including advertising and packaging, calendars, newspapers, travel books, bird and insect field guides, CD-ROMs, and publications such as Audubon, Smithsonian, Texas Parks and Wildlife, Birding, WildBird, BBC Wildlife, and the Handbook of Birds of the World.

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