Husband and wife formed a highly effective partnership for photography and bird study.
He took the black and white photos and she took the color slides on their bird study expeditions.
[citation needed] The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University (formerly named the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Science) has a bird image collection named VIREO (Visual REsource For Ornithology) with over 180,000 thousand photographs, thousands of which were taken by the Cruickshanks.
[1] Helen Cruickshank won the 1949 John Burroughs Medal for her 1948 book, Flight into Sunshine: Bird Experiences in Florida.
The Florida Ornithological Society sponsors the Helen G. and Allan D. Cruickshank Education Award.