Steve Hoffman, founder of Hawkwatch International and formerly Executive Director of the Montana Audubon Society, is now in the business of leading birding tours throughout world under the banner of Merlin Birding.  He has just received the PRIME award from the Bozeman Daily Chronicle and was honored at an awards ceremony in Bozeman on August 27. Steve talks about the dangers that raptors are currently facing and about other issues affecting various species of birds on the western landscape.