Martin Taylor is a FGASA accredited specialist bird guide with over twenty years’ experience birdwatching and working in the conservation field in Africa. He is passionate about threatened bird species and was the lead editor of the 2015 Red Data Book of Birds of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland, the author of the 2018 State of South Africa’s Bird Report and a member of BirdLife South Africa’s List Committee for several years. In the past he has acted as coordinator of SADC region for the East Atlantic Flyway Initiative, which aims to protect habitat for Palearctic migratory bird species and was involved in several capacity building initiatives assisting conservation organisations across southern Africa. His birdwatching travels have taken him across Africa including Angola, South Africa, Mozambique, Malawi, Namibia, Egypt, Kenya, Lesotho, the Seychelles, Central African Republic and Zimbabwe.