Growing up in landlocked but impressively bird-rich Oklahoma, Dan has been an avid birder since age 10, and has birded extensively throughout the Lower 48 while chasing lifers in every corner of the country. His legal career first took him to Washington, DC for a decade and then to San Diego twenty years ago. Despite being dragged along on birding trips to cemeteries, dumps and sewage treatment ponds, not one of his three now-grown children are into birding – go figure! In recent years, about the only thing that will lure him away from working on his “5-Mile Radius” list are the wonderful San Diego pelagics, where he has racked up many hours learning from some of the best pelagic birders around. Dan currently serves on the boards of the Western Field Ornithologists and the San Dieguito River Valley Conservancy.