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About Jon-Mark Davey: The Florida Wildlife Photographer

Jon-Mark Davey: The Florida Wildlife Photographer

For over 30 years, I’ve called South Florida home, spanning the east coast from Jupiter to Miami. Throughout my career, I’ve played a pivotal role in designing and building the ABC television station in Palm Beach Gardens, collaborated with two mega-churches, and led marketing and sales efforts for an international private school software company and financial institution.

Beyond my professional life, my wife, Jo, and I have spent decades exploring the diverse landscapes of South Florida—from the Keys to Orlando and both coasts. Most weekends, you’d find us traversing the Everglades, sugarcane fields, and Florida wilderness in one of our Jeeps, always on the hunt for wildlife to photograph.

Jo grew up in the Pine Hills area of Orlando, while I originally hail from Arkansas. After high school, I moved to Florida to live with my sister’s family, eager to apply the technical expertise I had spent years honing. With nearly 40 hours a week dedicated to working at two radio stations, I became a true “techie.” At 18, I was the youngest technical production employee at an ABC TV station in Orlando, making history as the first hire in its newly established special “film” division—launching my career in television broadcasting.

In 1994, I published my first website, Quakerville.com—an informational hub dedicated to Quaker (Monk) Parrots. By the late 1990s and early 2000s, it had grown into the largest single-species bird website on the internet, boasting over 2,000 active pages and drawing more than 2 million page reads annually.

With the rise of social media, online communities evolved. Advances in web technology eventually rendered Quakerville’s original programming obsolete, and migration to modern platforms like WordPress proved impractical. While the site was never transitioned, Quakerville was more than a collection of web pages—it was a thriving community of Quaker Parrot enthusiasts, built through years of dedication. Despite the shift toward blog-style formats, nothing can truly replace the depth and functionality of a well-crafted informational website.