Facing Extinction: The World's Rarest Birds and the Race to Save Them - Tapa dura

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Paul Donald is Senior Scientist at BirdLife International, and before this was for a long time Principal Scientist at the RSPB. He fell in love with larks while doing his doctoral research at Oxford University on the ecology of Skylarks, and has since worked on all of the world's rarest larks, including the critically endangered Liben Lark and Raso Lark. He is author of the Poyser monograph on the Skylark and lead author of Facing Extinction, a book about the world's rarest birds. For many years he was Editor-in-Chief of the leading ornithological journal Ibis, and he is a recipient of the prestigious ZSL Marsh Award for Conservation Biology. Paul is an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Cambridge and an Honorary Life Member of the British Ornithologists' Union.

Nigel Collar is Leventis Fellow in Conservation Biology at BirdLife International, and is the author of numerous books, papers and articles on threatened birds.

Stuart Marsden is Reader in Conservation Ecology at Manchester Metropolitan University and Editor-in-chief of Bird Conservation International.

Debbie Pain is Director of Conservation at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, and was formerly Head of International Research at the RSPB.