John M. Forcey received a BS in Forest Science from the Pennsylvania State University in 1976. From 1976 to 1988 he worked in the forest products industry in Ohio and Pennsylvania, working primarily as a lumber inspector, but also dry kiln operator, timber procurer, and lumber buyer. In 1984 he and his wife joined The Evanglical Alliance Mission and in 1988 moved to Edinburg, Texas for Spanish language study. After a number of visits to nearby Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, participation in his first Christmas Bird Counts, and a visit to southern Tamaulipas, he was firmly entered into the classification of fanatic birder. John has not been a great taveling birder, but work related moves have allowed him to develop his bird observation skills in southern Baja California, southern California, central Pennsylvania, western Indiana, and during ten years in central Oaxaca. John's extensive record keeping on the birds of the latter locality have contributed to his publication of several articles on Oaxacan birds in the Mexican on-line ornithological magazine, Huitzil, as well as his recently updated Birds and Birding in Central Oaxaca, an annotated checklist of the birds of the area.

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