Useful links
Audubon Naturalist Society: http://www.audubonnaturalist.org/
New Jersey Audubon Society: http://www.njaudubon.org/
Audubon Camp at Hog Island, ME: http://www.maineaudubon.org/explore/camp/hi_overview.shtml
WAMU Radio’s Metro Connection: http://wamu.org/programs/mc/
Mark’s Welcome Page & Contents/Index: http://www.mgnature.com
Cape May Monarch Migration Project: http://rkwalton.com/mon.html
Hiking with his wife Paige Cunningham in the Canadian Rockies, August 2006.
Useful links
Audubon Naturalist Society: http://www.audubonnaturalist.org/
New Jersey Audubon Society: http://www.njaudubon.org/
Mark’s Welcome Page & Contents/Index: http://www.mgnature.com
Cape May Monarch Migration Project: http://rkwalton.com/mon.html
Mark S. Garland is a naturalist who has been sharing his enthusiasm for nature with others professionally for over 35 years. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Maryland’s College of Agriculture Work experience includes 6 years as a Ranger/Naturalist with the National Park Service, 17 years with the Audubon Naturalist Society (based in the Washington, DC area), and 4 years with New Jersey Audubon Society’s Cape May Bird Observatory. He has also led tours for the Smithsonian Institution, for the Massachusetts Audubon Society, and for Betchart Expeditions. He teaches week-long birding classes in Cape May for the Road Scholar program by Elderhostel each spring and fall. He continues to lead many field trips and workshops for both Audubon Naturalist Society and the New Jersey Audubon Society. Since 2006 he has planned and operated the Nature Travel Program for the Audubon Naturalist Society; the tours he leads are all listed on this site.
He is the author of the book Watching Nature: A Mid-Atlantic Natural History, published by the Smithsonian Press in 1997, and of the chapter Canal Walk in the Anthology City Birding, published by Stackpole Books in 2003. He founded the Cape Charles Monarch butterfly research project of the Coastal Virginia Wildlife Observatory and is currently Communications Director for the Monarch Monitoring Project in Cape May, New Jersey. He has co-authored with Andrew K. Davis 3 published papers on the Cape Charles monarch migration project.
For over 15 years he appeared regularly on the weekly radio program Metro Connection on Washington’s public radio station WAMU. He has written regular columns for the Cape May Star and Wave, for birdcapemay.org, and for the Audubon Naturalist News; one of the latter pieces was awarded the Excellence in Mass Media Award by the American Association of University Women in 1995. He is a frequent speaker at various events, ranging from nature and birding festivals to bird club monthly meetings.
Mark currently runs his own small company, Garland Cunningham LLC, which plans and conducts all the programs he leads along with tours led by other naturalists. Mark also plans and leads many private tours; gather 8 to 12 friends and request a custom itinerary.
Above, Mark at Lake Nakuru, Kenya, April 2007.
Below, with naturalist/author Robert Michael Pyle in South Texas, November 2010.
