Nic Bishop
Author and Photographer
of Nature Books for Children
Nic Bishop Animal Series
Scientist in the Field Series
Additional Children's Titles
Adult Nonfiction
School Readers
Scientist in the Field Series
The Tapir Scientist
If you’ve never seen a lowland tapir, you’re not alone. Most of the people who live near tapir habitat in Brazil’s vast Pantanal (“the Everglades on steroids”) haven’t seen the elusive snorkel-snouted mammal, either. Sibert winners Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop join a tapir-finding expedition led by the Brazilian field scientist Pati Medici. Click for more....
Since the year 1900, cheetah footprints quickly dwindled in African dirt as the species plummeted from more than 100,000 to fewer than 10,000. At the Cheetah Conservation Fund’s (CCF) African headquarters in Namibia, Laurie Marker and her team save these stunning, swift, and slender creatures from extinction. Click for more....
Chasing Cheetahs
Saving the Ghost of the Mountain
An expedition among snow leopards in Mongolia. Sy Montgomery and the photographer Nic Bishop invite readers on a trek to the cold, rocky ridges of Mongolia as they search for the elusive snow leopard with a team of conservation scientists. Click for more....
Looking for Life In the Universe
Twice a year, Jill and her team travel to the mountains of Puerto Rico where they use the world’s largest radio telescope to examine nearby stars. They search the sky, listening for radio signals that, if found and verified, would provide strong evidence that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe.
Text and Images - Copyright Nic Bishop