Richard Cachor Taylor

Hiking up to 500 miles each summer for eight years while conducting research on the Elegant Trogon in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Rick Taylor developed an intimate knowledge of the birds, habitats, and locations throughout Southeastern Arizona. During the course of his research in 1977 he reported the first Eared Trogon seen in the United States. Inevitably, his interest in trogon ecology lead him south into Mexico, then Central and South America, where he soon discovered the magic of tropical birds. In 1980 he founded Borderland Tours, a birding company dedicated to responsible ecotourism which operates trips throughout the world. Aside from leading tours to locations from Arizona to Africa and Alaska to Asia every year, Rick has authored location checklists for finding birds in Arizona's Huachuca Mountains (1995) and Chiricahua Mountains (revised 2010), as well as "Trogons of the Arizona Borderlands" (1994). Rick's popular bird-finding guide, "A Birder's Guide to Southeastern Arizona," was published by the American Birding Association in a revised and updated edition in 2005. His "Birds of Southeastern Arizona," a regional photo field guide covering all the regularly-occurring birds in this area, as well as all of the Mexican specialties, was published by R.W. Morse Co. in 2010.