Clive Byers

As a schoolboy, he and another keen twitcher, Dick, hitchhiked from their London home to a remote Scottish island to see a rare Arctic visitor, a Steller's Eider.

[1]His illustrations have appeared in well-known and popular bird identification guides, including Birds of the Western Palearctic and the Buntings and Sparrows volume of the Helm Identification Guides series as well as other publications including: He is also the author of a series of Photographic Guides encompassing: The author's descriptive text is accompanied by images taken by a number of wild life and bird photographers.

Clive Byers started birdwatching at an early age and it was this that led him to begin drawing and painting the birds he saw.

A short documentary about him produced by BBC Education's "The Eleventh Hour[9]" shows him working and bird-watching.

During the late 1980s while on a prolonged bird-watching trip to Kenya he was co-opted to perform the role of "Transvestite" in "The Lion of Africa".