Rosalee Winard has spent the last thirty years enamored with wetland birds. She received a bachelor's degree in natural history, with a specialization in ornithology and ethology. Winard worked for the National Science Foundation censusing bird populations in Florida before being led to documentary film, video art, and finally photography. Winard's award winning images have appeared in numerous publications includingArtforum,The New York Times,Forbes, andLe Mondeand are in the permanent collections of The Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Library of Congress.