Tony Diamond was raised in the UK, emigrating to Canada in 1983 to work with the Canadian Wildlife Service. In 1994 he moved from the prairies to Fredericton, where he is research professor in wildlife ecology at UNB. He and his wife Dorothy have lived near Stanley since 2005. Tony was trained as a zoologist and ecologist, and has worked in a number of countries nearly as exotic as New Brunswick – Kenya, the Seychelles, and West Indies - each a “hotspot” of biodiversity in different ways. Birds are his passion, and his research group at UNB studies them in both forested and marine ecosystems, focusing on effects of environmental change on their population ecology. His group’s seabird research extends from the Caribbean to the Arctic but is focused mainly in the Bay of Fundy, where they have studied the seabirds breeding on Machias Seal Island since 1995. Tony is senior author of the book “Save the Birds” (now long out of print), editor of several conference proceedings, and author of over 150 scientific publications, mostly on birds.