Tim Gallagher

{{Short description|American writer and wildlife photographer}}

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|education=California State University, Long Beach (BA, MFA)

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• Writer
• wildlife photographer

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Tim Gallagher is an American writer and wildlife photographer and the author of six books: Parts Unknown, a Naturalist's Journey in Search of Birds and Wild Places; The Grail Bird, Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker; Falcon Fever, A Falconer in the 21st Century; Imperial Dreams, Tracking the Imperial Woodpecker Through the Wild Sierra Madre; Born to Fish, How An Obsessed Angler Became the World's Greatest Striped Bass Fisherman; and Wild Bird Photography, A Full-Color Guide. He was editor-in-chief of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Living Bird magazine for 26 years and before that was on the start-up editorial staff first managing editor of WildBird magazine.

In 2004, Gallagher reported sighting an ivory-billed woodpicker in the Big Woods of Arkansas; however, a subsequent expedition led by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology was unable to confirm his sighting.{{Cite web |last=Ramanujan |first=Krishna |date=2016-04-14 |title=Ivory-billed woodpecker search 2.0 |url=https://news.cornell.edu/essentials/2016/04/ivory-billed-woodpecker-search-20 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220411085151/https://news.cornell.edu/essentials/2016/04/ivory-billed-woodpecker-search-20 |archive-date=2022-04-11 |access-date=2022-04-11 |website=Cornell Chronicle |language=en}} Gallagher's book about the experience, The Grail Bird: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker ({{ISBN|0-618-45693-7}}), was published in May 2005.

Gallagher was born in England and received a B.A. in magazine journalism, and an M.F.A. in English, both from California State University, Long Beach.