Jim’s articles and photographs have been published in Birding, Birder's World, BirdWatching, Bird Watcher's Digest, Outdoor Photographer, Argia, and Valley Nature, and he has written four books illustrated with his photography: A Beginner's Field Guide to Phoenix Birds, published by the Maricopa Audubon Society in 2004; North American Owls--Journey Through a Shadowed World, published by Willow Creek Press in 2004; Jim Burns' Arizona Birds, published by the University of Arizona Press in 2008; and Owls Rock, an e-book published by Kindle and Nook Books in 2012. Most recently he and Matthew Studebaker have collaborated on the Arizona Bird Photography Site Guide available at Studebaker Studios.
“It is mandatory that those of us who love nature pay it forward to the uninitiated, preserving it so that future generations may experience and love it as we do.”