What's your Spark Bird? For Roger Tory Peterson, it was a northern flicker that sparked a lifelong passion for the beauty and wonder of birds. Lee Peterson talks about his dad's legacy. Artists, scholars and young people share their perspectives about Roger and RTPI's mission to nurture the next generation of artists whose Art Matters to the Planet.

The Peterson Collection

Discoveries in the Peterson Collection

Over the course of his storied career, Roger Tory Peterson traveled the world in search of birds and other fauna and flora to paint, photograph, film and document. RTPI has been entrusted with the vast majority of his life’s work.