Author Biography: Stacey Patterson received a B.A. degree in biology from the University of California at Santa Cruz. When she moved back to the Los Angeles area, she obtained her state and federal permit to practice falconry and became a volunteer with South Bay Wildlife rehab as a raptor rehabilitator and educational presenter. She worked with her first peregrine in 1995 and has never looked back
Vadim Gorbatov, Russias greatest wildlife artist, was born in Moscow in 1940. He started drawing when he was only four, and recalls, '..I started to draw animals. When other kids were playing soccer or flirting with girls, I wandered in the woods, fields, and swamps. I had half a binocular, and I knew all the nests of the birds and dens of the mammals in our forest.' |
