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Birding in the Colombian Amazon In-Person
Gerald Hoekstra is a resident of Northfield. Before retiring to a life of birding and photography, he was Professor of Music at St. Olaf College. As a photographer, he focuses primarily on wildlife, especially birds and insects, but also landscapes and architecture. Hoekstra has birded and photographed wildlife in South America, Central America, Europe, and South Africa, as well as throughout the U.S. and Canada. His photographs appear in Bob Janssen's Birds in Minnesota, Kim Eckert's A Birders' Guide to Minnesota, The Hummingbird Handbook, and the recently released monumental volume The Breeding Birds of Minnesota (U. of MN Press), as well as in several birding apps. They can often be seen on the home page of the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (moumn.org) and in Minnesota Birding, the newsletter of the MOU.