Biography

Dr. Houston’s interest in birds began as a young follower of Mrs. Isabel Priestley and continued as he crayoned covers of the first Blue Jay journals to be published by the Saskatchewan Natural History Society. He has assisted in banding more than 3,000 nestling Great Horned Owls and banded countless numbers of colonial – nesting birds, fish-eating birds including pelicans, cormorants, gulls and terns, and ducks and songbirds. He writes for publications such as American Birds and the Fish and Game Sportsman. Dr. Houston has taken many budding ornithologists under his wing, including several Manitobans, and encouraged them to observe, study a...Read More