ผู้เขียน: Walter Sedwitz

P. A. Buckley, a Riverdale native, is Senior Scientist Emeritus at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. Walter Sedwitz was a Bronx resident whose favorite fieldwork site was Jerome Reservoir. William J. Norse studied birds throughout the Bronx and compiled its Christmas Bird Counts. John Kieran was Bronx-born and a sports writer for the New York Times. Fervent students of New York City–area birdlife, the four have been writing extensively about it since the 1930s.