Shrikes Tapa dura - 2013

Norbert Lefranc is a Nature Conservation Officer- working at the Ministry of the Environment in Metz. He is in charge of all nature conservation in Lorraine. His particular ornithological -interest is in shrikes and mountain birds and he has published a number of papers on these subjects. He is author of Les Oiseaux des Vosges (1979) and Les Pies-Griches d'Europe, d'Afrique du Nord et du Moyen-Orient (1993), the first major study of western -Palearctic shrikes.

Tim Worfolk is a leading young bird illustrator whose work has been published in British Birds, Birding World and Birdwatch. He has a degree in biology and followed a varied career as nature reserve warden, postman and teacher before deciding to concentrate full-time on bird -illustration. Shrikes is the first major book that he has illustrated, but he is currently working on several other regional guides and identification guides to other bird families.