This event is held in connection with an e xhibit of 2022's Audubon Photography Award winners. The exhibit will be on display at the Main Library from April 20&ndash\;May 10.
\n\nPaul is both the author and photo grapher of two best-selling bird books\, Owl: A Year in the Lives of North American Owls (Braided River 2016) and The Owl and The Woodpecker\, Encou nters with North America&rsquo\;s Most Iconic Birds (Mountaineers Books 20 08). \; In 2020 he released two new books\, Snowy Owl: A Visual Natura l History and Great Gray Owl: A Visual Natural History.
\nOwl receiv ed the Gold Medal in the 2017 Independent Publisher Book
\nPaul&rsqu o\;s photography won awards from several prestigious contests\, including those hosted by Audubon Magazine and the International Conservation Photog raphy Awards.
\nHis work is featured in many bird guides\, including those from Audubon\, Peterson\, and The Smithsonian and has been featured in a variety of publications including The New York Times\, Audubon\, Sun set\, Nature&rsquo\;s Best Photography Magazine\, and National Geographic online and in calendars.
\nHis work has been the subject of many TV and Radio appearances including pieces on NBC Nightly News as well as PBS\ , NPR and regional stations.
\nAn active public speaker\, Paul prese nts dozens of multimedia owl and woodpecker programs at bird festivals\, f undraisers\, and conferences across the continent every year.
\nHis work has been featured in several North American traveling exhibits and in a wildlife art exhibit in Taiwan.
\nPaul serves as the Director of Major Gifts for Conservation Northwest\, a Seattle based non-profit dedica ted to protecting\, connecting\, and restoring wildlands and wildlife from the coast of Washington to the Rockies of British Columbia.
\n&ldqu o\;If your average picture is worth a thousand words\, a Paul Bannick wild life photograph is worth 20\,000. Having worked with wildlife photographer s for articles in Audubon\, Smithsonian\, Sierra\, National Wildlife\, and other magazines for 45 years\, I have yet to encounter one who better cap tures the magic and beauty of the natural world. I was absolutely blown aw ay by his two recent books &mdash\; Snowy Owl and Great Gray Owl. No tame\ , game-farm birds in these spectacular collections or in any of Bannick&rs quo\;s work. He immerses himself in the wild and brings his viewers and re aders along with him. Little wonder that he is a multiple award winner.&rd quo\;
\n&mdash\; Ted Williams\, award winning wildlife journalist an d former Editor of Audubon Magazine
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