Bikram Grewal - A Photographic Guide To The Birds Of India

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Bikram Grewal, a publisher by profession, has written several best-selling guides to Indian birds. He has written more than twenty other books on various subjects, and has a special interest in the history of Indian ornithology. He divides his time between Delhi and his farm in the Himalayan foothills.

Bill Harvey worked with the British Council in the UK, Asia and Africa for 30 years. He has lived in the region for nearly 10 years. His book on the birds of Bangladesh was an instant best seller. He writes widely on birds and conservation matters in scientific journals and popular magazines and newspapers. He now lives in Delhi where he is closely associated with the Northern India Bird Network, which he helped establish.

Otto Pfister has worked for the Swiss Development Cooperation and spent over 12 years in the Indian subcontinent where he devoted most of his free time to wildlife photography. His work has appeared in various international publications and he is currently completing a book on the Birds and Mammals of Ladakh. He now lives in Colombia when not travelling the world photographing wildlife.

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the following for their support and help in the publishing of this book:

Eric Oey and the staff at Periplus Editions, Nikhil Devasar, Sumit Sen, Lt Gen. R. K. Gaur, Sharad Gaur, Harish Aggarwal, Sudhir Horo, Manju Singhal, Neeraj Aggarwal, Ayesha Sarkar, Clement M. Francis, Sujan Chatterjee, Sunita Chaudhry, Kamal Sahai, Arfin Zukoff, Ron Saldino, Vijay Chowdhary, Sudhir Oswal, Vivek Menon, Rao lnderjit Singh, Morten Strange, Nikhat Grewal, Raghuvir Khare, Arshiya Sethi, Deepshikha Singh, Pauline Hayes, Bittu Sahgal, Tim Loseby, Simon Harrap, Coren Eckstrom, Peter Morris, A. V. Manoj, Milan Bhatta-charya, Mohit Aggarwal, S. Kartikeyan, Aasheesh Pittie, K. B. Singh, Carol Inskipp, Dhananjai Mohan, Sheila Chhabra, Vijay Cavale, Toby Sinclair, Gertrud Denzau, M. B. Khriahna, Clive Harris, Martin Kelsey, Rajesh Bist, R. Vijaykumar Thondaman, Sudhir Vyas, Vivek Tiwari, Sanjeeva Pandey, Samiha Grewal, Keya Khare, Dhanraj Malik, Robert Kirk, Pradeep Sachdeva, Emil Wendel, Naseer Kitchloo, Kaoosi Sethna, Tsering Tashi, Thakur Dalip Singh, Suresh Elamon, Pia Sethi, Maggie Harvey, Shefali Upadhyay, Petrick William, Sekhar Raha, S. A. Hussain, Gillian Wright, Tim lnskipp, Krys Kazmierczek, Rattan Singh, Liza Cherian, S. Balachandran, Joanna Van Gruisen, Asad Rahmani, Jan Willem den Besten, Nigel Redman, Samir Bakshi and especially Alpana Khare.

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