Roger Burrows was born in Northampton, England, where he spent his youth as an enthusiast birder, at first along the east coast of his native land and then on more adventurous field trips to Yugoslavia, Holland and the south of France. Burrows emigrated to Canada in 1970, where he earned his Bachelor of Science degree and went to work for Parks Canada as a naturalist, interpretive planner and a consultant on birds. He worked and traveled extensively in eastern Canada and eventually completed a three-volume work entitled Birding in Atlantic Canada. Burrows now lives in British Columbia, where he continues field research on birds, works as a naturalist on Alaskan cruise ships, and writes books about birds found in various regions of North America. completing the thre-volume Birding in Atlantic Canada. Since 1993, Roger has lived in British Columbia, where he has been an active birder, bird identification workshop provider, avifaunal surveyor and naturalist on Alaskan cruise ships, as well as a writer for Lone Pine Publishing. Roger now lives in Deep Cove, but antticipates a move to the Queen Charlottes soon.