The Authors

Richard Cannings
Co-author of Birds of the Okanagan Valley and British Columbia: A Natural History; Program Coordinator for Bird Studies Canada, and former curator of the Cowan Vertebrate Museum at the University of British Columbia; now a consulting biologist living in Naramata, B.C.

Tom Aversa
Co-author of Birds of the Puget Sound Region and Birds of the Willamette Valley Region; records compiler for the Washington Ornithological Society, and member of the Washington Bird Records Committee; has worked at the Woodland Park Zoo since arriving in Seattle in 1996.

Hal Opperman
Principal author of A Birder’s Guide to Washington; co-author of Birds of the Puget Sound Region and Birds of the Willamette Valley Region; past editor of the Washington Ornithological Society’s journal, Washington Birds; has lived in the Seattle area since 1967.

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