Tony Gaston is an author and ornithologist living in Ottawa, Canada. He has published several articles on natural history, as well as over two hundred scientific papers and reports. He is the author of five books: The Ancient Murrelet (1992), The Auks: Alcidae (1998), Seabirds: a Natural History (2004), Birds of Nunavut (2018), and The Great Himalayan National Park: The Struggle to Save the Western Himalayas (2019).