My books, Bird Love and Understanding Bird Behavior/ How to Read A Bird, use scientific discoveries to show how much humans and birds share, including some of art and literature’s most basic themes. My ultimate aim is to inspire as many people as possible to relate to and care for the natural world. Birdwatching offered me an early and very personal connection with urban nature as a child in Singapore, and I have been a keen supporter of grassroots conservation ever since. My time as an undergraduate at Princeton and Oxford was where I first got hooked on field biology and the history...more