Bird Planet: A Photographic Journey

＂Tim Laman is a superstar in one of photography’s most challenging pursuits: the quest to portray birds in the wild. A naturalist and explorer, ... he has spent thousands of hours over more than 30 years wedged precariously in the tops of trees, often in remote jungles, in the hope that careful planning and good fortune will align to produce the perfect picture. ... Laman shares his best images of spectacular birds on all continents, from the scarlet ibis of the Orinoco River in Venezuela to rhinoceros hornbills in the rainforests of Borneo. His familiar backyard American birds are as memorable as his poetic red-crowned cranes in snowy Japan＂--Publisher’s description.

Tim Laman is a contributing photographer for National Geographic magazine and makes films for the BBC Natural History Unit and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. He has won numerous awards for his photography and cinematography, including Wildlife Photographer of the Year in 2016. He is an associate of Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, a fellow of the Explorers Club, a founding member of the International League of Conservation Photographers, and a founder of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Birds-of-Paradise Project. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.