Greg Septon - Brief Biography

Greg was with the Milwaukee Public Museum for over 25 years creating exhibits and organizing public programs. He directed the Museum's Natural History Outreach Section and managed its’ Natural History Lecture Series, International Travel/Tour Program and Environmental/Art Exhibits. He also served as the Museum's delegate to the Natural History Committee of the International Council of Museums.

Greg organized and led several museum collecting expeditions and spent four springs along Alaska's arctic coast, living with the native Inupiaqs  photographing, collecting, and painting birds. He also conducted fieldwork in Tasmania and in the Australian outback, as well as in the rain forests of Costa Rica.

For the past 30 years he has directed and managed a successful and expanding urban Peregrine Falcon recovery effort in Wisconsin and has banded nearly 1,100 wild-produced peregrines in the state. Working in conjunction with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's Office of International Affairs, he also implemented an urban Peregrine Falcon recovery program in Russia and was involved with initiating a similar program in Poland.

Greg has lectured in 17 countries and published over 70 articles on museum techniques, birds, and natural history. He has also served on the Research and Conservation Committee of the Zoological Society of Milwaukee County, as Vice President of the Artists for Nature Foundation, on the Executive Board of the Raptor Education Foundation, as founder and Chairman of the Wisconsin Peregrine Society and past leader of the State of Wisconsin Peregrine Falcon Recovery Team. He is also an elected Fellow of the Explorer's Club.

For over 20 years he also served on the Council of the Society of Tympanuchus Cupido Pinnatus, Ltd. (STCP) Click here filling roles as Executive Director and Vice President & Chairman of its’ Projects & Research Committee.

In 2015 STCP dissolved and joined forces with the G. M. Sutton Avian Research Center Click here. Greg now serves as Secretary on their Board of Directors and assists in the Center’s expanded endangered prairie grouse and quail conservation efforts.

In 2014, he received the Noel J. Cutright Conservation Award from the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to bird conservation in Wisconsin and was presented for his

work with endangered and threatened species. Past recipients include the International Crane Foundation and the Wisconsin DNR Bureau of Endangered Resources.

In 2015 he formed Peregrine Management & Research, LLC with the goal of providing consulting and nest site management services for corporations and building owners that host nest boxes for peregrines.

In his spare time he enjoys leisure time with his family and grouse and quail hunting on the prairies and grasslands of the Great Plains.