Jon Curson is co-author of the definitive and widely acclaimed New World Warblers. He has spent much of the last 10 years studying birds at obser­vatories and in the field in North America, and has made several long research trips to Mexico and the tropics. He has contributed several papers on American warblers to various ornithological journals and is a committee member of the Neotropical Bird Club.

Following the same format as other book in the series, this guide to North American wood warblers, the parulinae, looks at their distribution throughout the USA and into Central and South America. It contains a full text for each species, including wing-formulae" drawings. Some of the species covered find their way to the UK and Europe."