Author Brief

Larry Rosche is a Field Researcher for the Conservation Outreach Program of The Cleveland Museum of Natural History. He concurrently is employed as the range distribution mapmaker for Houghton Mifflin Company’s Peterson Field Guide Series™.

His bird field studies focus on the nesting, distribution and migratory occurrences of Neotropical migrants. Field Projects have included: The Ohio Breeding Bird Atlas in most (97 atlas blocks) of Eastern Ohio, Inventory of Birds at the Ravenna Arsenal (1993, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004), Impact Study for the U. S Route 30 extension in Stark and Columbiana Counties, conducting and coordinating the study on the impact of White-tailed Deer population on Neotropical Bird migrants in the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area 1997-2002, and the in- tory and survey of the Upper Cuyahoga River and Nearby State Nature Preserves 1985, 1992, 1994, 1996 and 2000. Larry has inventoried and atlased birds in all of Eastern Ohio for the Ohio Department of Natural Areas and Preserves. In 2005, Larry will be researching and conducting bird and odonate inventories of the Ravenna Training and Logistics Site, Camp Perry, Tarleton Rifle Range and Camp Sherman.

His passion and expertise as a field biologist is well known locally and nationally. He has served as an elected member of the American Birding Association. He is an active member of American Field Ornithologists, North American Butterfly Association, Kirtland Bird Club and the Ohio  Odonata Society. He served 16 years as editor of The Cleveland Bird Calendar, a quarterly publication jointly published by the Kirtland Bird Club and The Cleveland Museum of Natural History. The Cleveland Bird Calendar is devoted to monitoring and surveying the ongoing avian populations in Northeast Ohio. In 1988, he penned A Field Book of the Birds of Cleveland (2nd edition). He has served as Ohio Compiler for Audubon Field Notes and North American Birds. His photographs and bird identification articles have appeared in Ohio Birds and Natural History, Field Notes, Birding, The Ohio Cardinal and Bird Watcher’s Digest. Recently he co-authored a chapter detailing the birding sites in the Cleveland, Ohio area for the American Birding Association book A Birder’s Guide to Metropolitan Areas of North America (2001) and A Field Book of the Birds of the Cleveland Region (2004) (3rd edition). In January 2005, Birds of the Cleveland Region was published by the Kirtland Bird Club. This book is an update to the A. B. Williams 1950 book of the same title. He has served multiple terms on the Ohio Rare Birds Records Committee.

Digital map making works have included: updating the range maps for the Eastern Birds, North American Warblers, Eastern Butterflies, Western Butterflies, Reptiles and Amphibians, Hawks of North America, Hummingbirds of North America, Eastern Trees, Western Trees, Mammals of North America and the soon to be updated Western Birds for the Peterson Field Guide Series™, Cover design for The Bobolink, Range distribution maps for The Center for the Study of Tropical Birds. Larry coauthored with Jon Dunn the copy for The Advanced Birding Video Series, The Large Gulls of North America, and The Small Gulls of North America.