Tony Gaston, D. Phil (Oxon), is a research scientist with the Canadian Wildlife Service, working on the conservation of marine and arctic birds. He specializes in studying birds in remote places; forest birds in India, pheasants in the Himalayas, Thick-billed Murres in the Arctic and the elusive Ancient Murrelet in the coastal rain-forests of British Columbia. In India he initiated the Himachal Wildlife Project, resulting in the establishment of the Great Himalaya National Park. He is married to Anjali, a well-known East Indian dancer. Their favourite pastime is watching night fall in places where there are no street lights.