David Burg

New York City

David L. Burg has been working on the environmental issues of New York and other metropolitan regions for over thirty years. A native of Southern Connecticut, he first started working as a professional naturalist in 1966, when he was a field assistant for the Department of Ornithology at Yale University. He subsequently worked odd jobs while hitch-hiking around North America, Central America, and Europe before resuming his naturalist career in New England and Israel. He was the first warden for the Norwalk Islands in Long Island Sound and the first naturalist for the Canoe Meadows Sanctuary in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Articles written by Mr. Burg have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Sanctuary Magazine, Urban Audubon, and online. He has given presentations at several wildlife conferences, and his work protecting birds in New York City was featured on national television on CBS Sunday Morning. After having a second child, Mr. Burg switched careers and worked in real estate for several years. He and his family have lived in the Bronx since 1985.