Schulenberg Thomas S.: Field Guide to Birds of Peru

Thomas S. Schulenberg is a research associate at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. Tom has made great contributions to the understanding of avian evolution and taxonomy. His extensive field expertise in South America led him to co-author Birds of Peru, and soon after, Tom became the founding editor of Neotropical Birds.Dan Lane is a research associate at Louisiana State University. An expert on the birds of the Neotropics, he joined John O'Neill on several of his Peruvian expeditions. He remains a tour-leader and bird illustrator of note.Douglas F. Stotz is an ornithologist based at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.John O'Neil is a renowned ornithologist and former director of the Museum of Natural Science at Louisiana State University. O'Neill has discovered and described 14 new bird species, including three new genera. In 2008, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Merit Award by the President of Peru in recognition of his contributions to ornithological studies of Peruvian birds. He has published dozens of scientific papers, mainly on the taxonomy of birds, but his milestone publication was The Birds of Peru, published by Helm in 2007, which was initiated, co-authored, and co-illustrated by O'Neill. Widely recognised as the most authoritative field guide for birdwatchers and ornithologists traveling to Peru and Bolivia, the text represents the culmination of his more than 40 years of fieldwork and research.Theodore Parker III (1953-1993) was an American ornithologist who specialised in the Neotropics. A brilliant field birder, he tragically died in a plane crash in Ecuador in 1993.