Charles Clarkson

Charles Clarkson was born in the mountains of central Virginia and lived out his childhood playing in the woods and admiring nature. As an adolescent, Charles began to gravitate towards birds and after his first college course in Ornithology, he decided that there could be no more satisfying life than one devoted to his feathered friends.

He went on to obtain his PhD from the University of Virginia, where he studied the impact of methylmercury accumulation on the growth and development of nestling waterbirds. Charles has also been involved in research investigating song production in male warblers, owl demography and Red-cockaded Woodpecker conservation.

Aside from his roles as the Coordinator for the Rhode Island Bird Atlas and the Director of Avian Research for the Audubon Society of Rhode Island, Charles owns and operates his own birding tour company, where he takes groups on educational and conservation-based birding tours to destinations throughout Central and South America.

Charles lives in Rhode Island with his wife, daughter, three dogs and indoor cat.