Jim has been interested in Irish wildlife for over 30 years. He has been taking 35mm stills during this period and has had his work published in Ireland and Britain. He was national chairman of BirdWatch Ireland (Ireland's leading wildlife conservation organisation) for three years and edited the Cork County Bird Report for three years. He wrote and illustrated a book entitled Bird Life in Ireland, published by O'Brien Press (1994), which included paintings and cartoons by Don Conroy. Radio Telefis Eireann (RTE) and TG4 have used his work. This included video for news coverage of the visit of three Killer Whales to Cork Harbour in 2001. His library footage was used for a TV programme on wading birds and a series on Irish Food as well as all the wild life footage for a half hour TV special on the dawn chorus. He has also supplied digital stills for websites, and for Wings, the magazine of BirdWatch Ireland, a local publication on The Wildlife Wonders of Youghal and the annual journal of BirdWatch Ireland Irish Birds.

He has been a regular contributor to RTE's radio wild life programme "Mooney Goes Wild on One" and was a key figure in the preparation and live, six hour broadcasting of the dawn chorus, the all day "Mooney Goes Wild on Waders" programme which was a live simulcast radio/TV presentation. He also researched and presented a radio documentary on the Black-tailed Godwit. He writes a weekly column entitled "In the Wild" in the weekend magazine of the national newspaper, the Irish Independent.

In January 2005 he completed an interactive DVD called "Whales and Dolphins of Ireland" for the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group.

He is working on a TV documentary on the Icelandic Black-tailed Godwit.

During 2005 he finished writing and illustrating a book entitled "A Guide to the identification Whales and Dolphins of Ireland" for the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group. The book was launched in June 2006. For 17 days in March 2006 he acted as cameraman for the IWDG Humpback Whale Expedition on the waters around the Cape Verde Island on board a 15 meter yacht.

From 13th December 2007 to 29th January 2008 he joined the Antarctic cruise ship Marco Polo as Ornithologist/Lecturer for their six week season sailing out of Ushuaia in Argentina. Jim updated a daily blog with text and images. The link to the blog is: http://antarcticjw.blogspot.com He also did some filming during the trip with his Canon XH A1 HD camera.

He has just completed a guide called Ireland's Garden Birds with Birdwatch Ireland's Oran O'Sullivan. It is available on-line and in all good book stores in Ireland.

He works as an ornithology lecturer and guide on Zegrahm Expeditions cruises.To view images from his January 2009 Antarctic trip go to his on-line photos.

His most recent publications are an 80 minute educational DVD scripted and narrated by Irish bat expert Conor Kelleher entitles 'The Bats of Ireland', Jim filmed, produced and edited the DVD. It was launched in September 2009 and is available from Bat Conservation Ireland. He has also writting the text for a book called 'Shorebirds of Ireland' with photographs by Mark Carmody and published in October 2009.