Victor Emanuel

Who is Victor Emanuel?

Victor Emanuel, of Austin, Texas, is the founder of Victor Emanuel Nature Tours, which takes almost 2,000 clients a year on 140 tours. Birds and natural history have been a major focus throughout his life. He is the founder and compiler for 40 years of the record-breaking Freeport Christmas Bird Count. In 1986, he established the first ever American youth birding camps. Mr. Emanuel served a term as president of the Texas Ornithological Society, and has served on the Boards of Directors of the RARE Center for Tropical Conservation and The Nature Conservancy of Texas. He is currently a member of the board of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, the Texas Audubon Society, and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History. In 1993, he was the recipient of the Roger Tory Peterson Excellence in Birding Award. In 2004, he received the Roger Tory Peterson Award from the American Birding Association, and the Arthur A. Allen Award from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.