NOTE: Meeting will be Zoom Only

Thursday, November 13, 2025

Raptor Quest: Chasing America’s Raptors by Scott Harris

Raptor Quest: Chasing America’s Raptors, is the story of Scott Harris’s year-long adventure tracking down every species of Raptor in the Lower 48 states. He spent 17 months, chasing 53 Raptors across 34 states—his version of a Raptor Big Year. Raptor Quest is about his adventures, misadventures, successes and failures. It’s about the birds—of course—but it’s also about the people he met, the things he learned and why he’s already working on his next adventure.

Scott Harris became an avid birder when he and his wife, Randi, retired to South Carolina in March of 2020. It was a hobby he never imagined himself participating in but now can’t imagine living without. He has since added a fascination with mammals and has sold his photographs around the world.

In addition to his writing, Scott also hosts a podcast – Naturally. Scott – that focuses on birds, wildlife and the great outdoors, and just signed a book deal for his upcoming book – Why We Love Birds: 52 Birders on Birding.

His interests and hobbies include the largest collection of John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley in the world, playing harmonica in a blues band and he has written more than fifty books in the past ten years - though the one he’ll be discussing today is his first entrée into the world of birding and birds.