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David Sibley Author, Editor & Illustrator

Artist, writer and naturalist David Sibley is the author and illustrator of a series of successful guides to nature, including the best-selling The Sibley Guide to Birds. He has travelled extensively throughout North America and abroad as a birding tour leader and lecturer. Sibley has contributed art and articles to Smithsonian, Science, The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, Birding, and North American Birds, and wrote and illustrated a syndicated column for The New York Times. He is the recipient of the Roger Tory Peterson Award for Lifetime Achievement from the American Birding Association, and the Linnaean Society of New York’s Eisenmann Medal. He lives in Concord, Massachusetts.