I enjoy photography and other Arts. Click here to see three of my photographs from the Boundary Waters of northern Minnesota.  I also have a photographic lifelist of 

 

 

I earned my Ph.D. from Louisiana State University in Zoology and Physiology. During our graduate work in Peru, my wife Erika and I discovered a new bird,  
Nephalornis oneillii (left)
and had a bird named after us, Pipreola riefferi tallmanarum (right).