Jeffrey V WellsJeffrey V. Wells and Allison Childs Wells are native Mainers are both lifelong birders. They began birding together when they met in college. After graduating from the University of Maine at Farmington, they went on to graduate programs at Cornell Unversity in Ithaca, New York, where Jeff received his M.S. and Ph.D. and Allison, her M.F.A. Both stayed on at Cornell, Allison as communications director for the world-renowned Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and Jeff, also at the Lab, as director of Bird Conservation for National Audubon (first for New York State then for the U.S.). They have published hundreds of bird-related articles and have collaborated on many projects, including as co-contributors to the Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior and as creators and webmasters of the websites Arubabirds.com and Bonairebirds.com, which provide field identification and bird-finding information about the birds of these popular vacation islands. Jeff is also author of Birder's Conservation Handbook: 100 North American Birds at Risk, published in October 2007 by Princeton University Press, and editor of Boreal Birds of North America, published in 2011 by University of California Press. Read More Read Less