Naturalist. Educator. Photographer. Author.

A renowned Field Naturalist and educator located on Cape Cod, Peter Trull has dedicated over 40 years towards capturing and sharing the raw beauty of the animals and landscape around him.

Here you can begin to learn about the plants, animals, habitats and ecosystems that provide food, shelter and resting areas for the wild inhabitants of Cape Cod, and the influences that fresh and salt water have on them.

“Peter Trull is a world class Naturalist and the go-to expert for all things wild on Cape Cod.”

— Gregory Skomal, PhD, Senior Marine Fisheries Scientist, Massachusetts Marine Fisheries

“Peter Trull is at once a keen Naturalist, an engaging storyteller, a contemplative author, a brilliant photographer and a gifted educator.”

— Wayne R. Peterson Massachusetts Audubon Society

“Trull describes the march of Cape Cod’s seasons with a deep knowledge that comes from long acquaintance and careful observation, combined with a contagious, youthful enthusiasm. Giving us the sense of seeing lives lived other than ours.”

— Robert Finch, author of The Primal Place

One of Peter’s life thrills was hosting Dr. Jane Goodall on an intertidal walk on the Brewster flats. Dr. Goodall was visiting The Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School which runs her “Roots and Shoots” program with middle school students. As they stood talking on the tidal flats of Brewster with the water and substrate slowly embedding their shoes, sinking into the soft muck, she looked down and said. “Peter, it seems the more time you spend here, the more you become a part of it!” The twinkle in her eye said it all.

Peter Trull has been involved in Research and Education on Cape Cod for about 40 years. He coordinated seabird protection and research for the Massachusetts Audubon Society. He conducted field research in Guyana and Surinam, studying the market trapping of Common Terns and Roseate Terns, working and living with local bird trappers in several coastal villages where he hesitatingly admits he’s eaten Common Terns and 15 to 20 species of sandpipers and plovers.

As Education Director at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, he developed programs and began studying Eastern Coyotes in 1989. Through the 90’s, as a researcher and Education Director at the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies, he developed and taught classes related to whales and marine birds. He has served as naturalist on over 2000 whale watching trips related to education and research.

His most recent book and 7th on Cape Cod natural history, Birds of Paradox - The Life of Terns, was released in 2019. His two current, ongoing research projects involve the Wilson’s Storm-Petrel and Eastern Coyote/Eastern Wolf.

All Images on this site are copyright Peter Trull