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Tim Gallagher

b. 2000

American journalist

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About Tim Gallagher

Born 2000. Tim Gallagher is an American ornithologist, zoologist, author, journalist and non-fiction writer.

Tim Gallagher is an American writer and wildlife photographer and the author of six books: Parts Unknown, a Naturalist's Journey in Search of Birds and Wild Places; The Grail Bird, Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker; Falcon Fever, A Falconer in the 21st Century; Imperial Dreams, Tracking the Imperial Woodpecker Through the Wild Sierra Madre; Born to Fish, How An Obsessed Angler Became the World's Greatest Striped Bass Fisherman; and Wild Bird Photography, A Full-Color Guide. He was editor-in-chief of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Living Bird magazine for 26 years and before that was on the start-up editorial staff first managing editor of WildBird magazine.

In 2004, Gallagher reported sighting an ivory-billed woodpecker in the Big Woods of Arkansas; however, a subsequent expedition led by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology was unable to confirm his sighting. Gallagher's book about the experience, The Grail Bird: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker , was published in May 2005.

Gallagher was born in England and received a B.A. in magazine journalism, and an M.F.A. in English, both from California State University, Long Beach.

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2000
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California State University

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American journalist

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Tim Gallagher was born in 2000.

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Tim Gallagher is an ornithologist, zoologist, author, journalist and non-fiction writer.

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· Wikidata: Q2433984

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