BIOGRAPHY - Chuck Hagner - FEATURED SPEAKER
Chuck Hagner
Editor, Birder's World Magazine
Chuck Hagner is an avid long-time birdwatcher, an
experienced editor and writer, and the editor-in-chief of Birder's World
magazine (www.BirdersWorld.com).
Hagner’s articles about birdwatching appear regularly in Birder’s World
and its blog, Birder’s World Field of View (bwfov.typepad.com). His most recent
article, describing a birding trip he made last spring to Cheyenne Bottoms and
Quivira National Wildlife Refuge in Kansas, ran in the February 2009 issue.
Hagner’s writing has also appeared in Nature Conservancy magazine. The
most recent contribution, "The Secret Life of the Kirtland's Warbler," appeared
in spring 2006 and described the historic discovery of the winter grounds of the
endangered warbler.
Hagner is the author of two books: Wings of Spring (Stackpole Books,
2006) and Guide to Ducks and Geese (Stackpole Books, 2006), and he was
one of 50 birders asked to contribute to the book
Good
Birders Don't Wear White: 50 Tips From North America's Top Birders
(Houghton Mifflin, 2007).
He became editor of Birder's World in 2001, after a successful career
writing and publishing books for Time Life Books, in Alexandria, Virginia.
Before joining Time Life, he was the managing editor of the AIA Press at the
American Institute of Architects in Washington, DC.
Hagner holds a master's degree from American University in Washington, DC, and
dual bachelor's degrees from Boston University. He is a member of the American
Birding Association, American Ornithologists' Union, Audubon Society, Cornell
Lab of Ornithology, Nature Conservancy, Wilson Ornithological Society, and
Wisconsin Society for Ornithology.
He is married and the father of two children. He and his family live outside
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, not far from a great spot for warblers in the spring.
Birder's World appears bimonthly and is distributed nationwide as well as in
Canada and the United Kingdom. It is published by Kalmbach Publishing Co.,
located in Waukesha, Wisconsin.