Michael Roedel
MICHAEL ROEDEL is a professional wildlife biologist with extensive experience as a birder across the southern states. In recent years he has served as the State Ornithologist for Tennessee. Michael now makes his home in New Mexico.

Gregory Kennedy
Gregory Kennedy has been an active naturalist and adventurer since he was a young boy. He is the author of many books on natural history and has produced film and television work on environmental issues and indigenous concerns in southeast Asia, New Guinea, South and Central America and the high Arctic. His involvement in numerous research projects around the world range from studies in the upper canopy of tropical and temperate rainforests to deepwater marine investigations.