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ISBN-10: 849655306X | ISBN-13: 978-8496553064 | Publication Date: May 30, 2006 | Edition: 1st

Illustrates in detail all species of birds in the world.

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Dr Per Alström: Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden; and Department of Systematic Zoology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.

Dr Jonathan L. Atwood: Director, Conservation Biology Program, Department of Environmental Studies, Antioch New England Graduate School, Keene, New Hampshire, USA. Raül Aymí: Catalan Ringing Scheme, Catalan Ornithological Institute, Barcelona, Spain. Professor Franz Bairlein: Director, Institute of Avian Research, Wilhelmshaven, Germany. Dr Walter E. Boles: Scientific Officer and Collection Manager, Ornithology Section, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Peter Clement: Cambridgeshire, England. Brian J. Coates: Publisher and freelance ornithological consultant, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Dr Richard Dean: Research Associate, DST/NRF Centre of Excellence at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa. Dr Guy Dutson: IBA Project Manager, Birds Australia, Melbourne, Australia; formerly Senior Technical Advisor, BirdLife Pacific Secretariat, Suva, Fiji. Professor Andrzej Dyrcz: Department of Avian Ecology, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland. Professor Paul R. Ehrlich: President, Center for Conservation Biology, Bing Professor of Population Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA. Dr Chris Filardi: Biodiversity Scientist for Pacific Programs, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. Gabriel Gargallo: General Co-ordinator, Catalan Ornithological Institute, Barcelona, Spain. Phil Gregory: Professional bird guide and field ornithologist, Field Guides Inc. & Sicklebill Safaris, Kuranda, Queensland, Australia. Dr Frank Hawkins: Conservation International Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar. Susannah B. Lerman: Graduate student, Conservation Biology Program, Department of Environmental Studies, Antioch New England Graduate School, Keene, New Hampshire, USA. Dr Michel Louette: Head of Department of African Zoology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium. Steve Madge: Limosa Birdwatching & Wildlife Holidays, Northrepps, Norfolk, England. Professor Jochen Martens: Institut für Zoologie, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany. Cornelis W. Moeliker: Chief Curator, Natural History Museum Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Dr Martin Päckert: Curator, Ornithologische Abteilung, Staatliche Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden, Museum für Tierkunde, Dresden, Germany. Dr David J. Pearson: Freelance ornithological consultant and writer, Suffolk, England; formerly University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya. Dr Peter G. Ryan: Senior Lecturer, DST/NRF Centre of Excellence at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa. Dr Cagan H. Sekercioglu: Senior Research Scientist, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA. Dr Lars Svensson: Guest Researcher, Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden; and PhD HC, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. Dr Barry Taylor: Honorary Research Associate, School of Botany & Zoology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

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Dr. Çağan Hakkı Şekercioğlu (www.sekercioglu.org) is a biology professor at the University of Utah and the president of the non-profit environmental organization KuzeyDoğa (www.kuzeydoga.org). Born in İstanbul, Şekercioğlu is a conservation ecologist, ornithologist, and Turkey's first tropical biologist. Şekercioğlu graduated from İstanbul Robert College in 1993. and won a silver medal at the International Biology Olympics that year. He graduated from Harvard University in 1997 with degrees in biology and anthropology. Before starting his ecology Ph.D. at Stanford University, he took a year off to work in Alaska for the USGS National Biological Survey, to climb, photograph, and explore in South America and Antarctica, and to travel in Africa for his first book "Vanishing Africa". In 2001, he was chosen one of the 100 leading academics of Turkey. His doctoral research focused on the causes and consequences of bird extinctions and he received his Ph.D. in 2003 from Stanford University Department of Biology. Same year, he was chosen the Outstanding Young Person of the Year in Environmental and Ethical Leadership by Junior Chamber International of Turkey. Also in 2003, he initiated his community-based conservation, biodiversity research, ecological restoration, and ecotourism projects in northeastern Turkey, founding the Kars-based environmental non-profit organization KuzeyDoğa in 2007. He directed KuzeyDoğa while working as a senior scientist at Stanford University. For his community-based conservation, research, restoration, and ecotourism work at Lake Kuyucuk of Kars (www.kuyucuk.org), he received the Whitley Gold Award of the United Kingdom from Princess Anne in 2008. Following the award, KuzeyDoğa succeeded in getting Kuyucuk declared eastern Turkey's first Ramsar wetland, had the lake chosen the 2009 European Destination of Excellence, and helped create Turkey's first bird-nesting island in the lake. These conservation milestones were honored by Princess Anne, who invited Şekercioğlu to the Buckingham Palace in 2010. Later that year, Şekercioğlu joined the faculty of the University of Utah Department of Biology and he was chosen one of the 100 Hopes for the Future of Turkey and Turkey's Scientist of the Year. In 2011, he was elected a National Geographic Emerging Explorer and received Turkey's wetland conservation awards for his individual efforts and for the work of KuzeyDoğa. In 2011, Şekercioğlu and colleagues published the books "Conservation of Tropical Birds" and "Winged Sentinels: Birds and Climate Change" (www.wingedsentinels.com). The latter has become a Cambridge University Press bestseller and was chosen "2011 Book of the Year" by the Natural History Book Service. In addition to his long-term work in Turkey, Ethiopia, Costa Rica, and Utah, Şekercioğlu has done field work in over 70 countries on all continents and has seen most of the world's bird species in the wild. He is a Fellow International of the Explorers Club, Elective Member of the American Ornithologists Union, and a full member of the Sigma Xi Scientific Society. His research and conservation efforts have been covered widely, including BBC, CNN, National Geographic, Nature, Newsweek, New York Times, Science and The New Yorker. Also an award-winning nature and wildlife photographer, Şekercioğlu's photos have been published by the National Geographic, BBC, and hundreds of magazines, newspapers, and books. Şekercioğlu's three books and 50 scientific publications have received over 1500 citations. Globally, he is one of the most cited 1% of the scientists of the past decade.