Amy Hooper

 

Author/Illustrator Bio:

Amy Hooper became a birder after becoming editor at WildBird.

"I am an editor who happens to work at a bird magazine," she said. "When I plan each year's editorial calendar, I try to reach beginning and intermediate birders with articles that inform and entertain. We cover everything from backyard birding to birding tours, but our travel topics focus on the Americas."

Birdmilwaukee.comEditor of WildBird magazine, Amy Hooper also pens tidbits about birds, birders, and birding in her wide-ranging blog, “WildBird on the Fly”. She travels frequently to see birds and meet birders, and she actively supports a number of organizations that help conserve and preserve birds, including the American Bird Conservancy, the American Birding Association, the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, and the National Audubon Society. She champions young birders.

Hooper enjoys reading, driving her 1972 BMW 2002, yoga, and baking cookies in her apartment in Costa Mesa, California. In a free-spirited INTERVIEW with Birding, Hooper shares her enthusiasm for travel, blogs, the Duck Stamp, and families who bird together—and muses on the birding trip of her dreams. — Noah K. Strycker