• Wildlife Photography Tours

    Stan is proud to offer two different world-class Wildlife Photography Tours each summer during June in Minnesota's lake country.

    Dates are limited. Contact Stan to book your date. 

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  • Bookstore

    Stan has written and photographed over a hundred state-by-state field guides and other books on nature.

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  • NatureSmart Images

    NatureSmart Images is a web site featuring Stan's popular photography.

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  • Presentations

    Stan Tekiela has given hundreds of talks and seminars across the country.

    Stan's presentations will help you look at wildlife in a whole different way.

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Dickcissel

We people love to group, label, and pigeon-hole what we see and experience around us in nature. I believe it helps us to understand and organize in our brains the vast number of species that we...

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Gee-whiz Nature Facts

The Short-tailed Shrew is an aggressive predator. They are thick and stocky animals with short, dark gray fur. They have a row of needle-sharp teeth and tiny eyes. the shrew can also employ an ultrasonic sound for echolocation, like bats. The echolocation is used to detect objects, openings or if something is blocking their tunnels in the blackness of their underground world.

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Wildlife Photography Tours

Each year, during June and July, Stan Tekiela offers two world-class wildlife photography tours. Here's your chance to learn some tricks of the trade from a top professional.

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NatureSmart Wildlife Images

Do you have any interesting wildlife in your backyard? Any nesting birds, deer, turkeys, reptiles, amphibians, or other unique wildlife? Or maybe a fox or coyote den?

If so, contact Stan at stan@naturesmart.com with your backyard wildlife. If he can get a good photo of the subject, he will send you a print of the photo to hang on your wall.

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Hear Stan on radio stations all across the Midwest.
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