A Birder's Guide to Southern California (ABA/Lane Birdfinding Guide)
Brad Schramwas first introduced to bird-watching in 1952 at age nine and became part of the rapidly evolving world of high-velocity California birding in the 70s. A life-long California resident, he has lived most of those years in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties. Since his early retirement from the business world in 1996 he has been a part-time tour leader for Victor Emanuel Nature Tours, leading birding trips in Southern California, Alaska and the American West, Trinidad & Tobago, Iceland, East Greenland, and Antarctica. Serving as a naturalist aboard small eco-tour cruise ships in Polynesia and Melanesia, Kamchatka and the Bering Sea, the Canadian High Arctic, Antarctica and the Scotia Sea, and the Chilean Fjords, has delivered him to amazing birds, adventures at sea, and to scores of remote islands.