About the Author

Dr. Dale Zimmerman
Silver City, New Mexico, has served as home base, where for 30 years, he was a professor of Biology at Western New Mexico University. Practicality, plus a nostalgic interest in Mexico's avifauna, dictated residing in the American Southwest, "second best" among the world's places in which to live, from Dale's viewpoint.
Although he finds bird photography more rewarding, he has for years devoted considerable time to bird portraiture. In addition to illustrating, in part, the first edition of Birds of New Guinea (Beehler, Pratt and Zimmerman, Princeton, 1986) and Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania (Zimmerman, Turner and Pearson, A & C Black,1996), Dale's artwork has graced many an ornithological journal, coffee mug, t-shirt, and living room wall.

Dale Zimmerman recording bird songs at sunrise along the Athi River near Kibwezi, Kenya, July 1978

Dale and Marian Zimmerman in the Gedi Forest, coastal Kenya (1986) photo by Dustin Huntington

Dale and Marian Zimmerman wading across Sullivan Bay on Bartholomew Island,Galapagos (1969 ) photo by Roger Tory Peterson