Hem Sagar Baral is a leading expert on the birds of southern Asia. For four years, he worked as a naturalist at Royal Chitwan National Park before completing a diploma in geology at Tribhuvan University and then earning a PhD for his work on the lowland grassbirds in Nepal. Hem has found four new species of grassland birds for Nepal: Jerdon’s Babbler, Finn’s Weaver, Singing Lark and Moustached Warbler.
