Stephen W. Kress is Vice President for Bird Conservation for the National Audubon Society. An expert in seabird conservation, Dr. Kress is also known as "The Puffin Man" because of his extraordinary success leading Audubon's Project Puffin in Maine.

Robert Burton is a well-established natural history whose books include, Bird Behavior, Nature's Night Life, and Ponds and Nature by the Roadside.