Rob is a qualified ecologist and widely travelled naturalist. After completing a degree in Ecology from UEA, he set up his own graphic design and artwork business in 1989 and has been working with computer graphics since their inception. Having acquired a high level of expertise in digital imaging, Rob has skilfully combined his passion for wildlife with his knowledge of the latest technology to produce a series of publications for the commercial and charitable sector. With Andy Swash, Rob founded WILDGuides in 1999 with the aim of producing innovative and easy-to-use wildlife field guides for Britain, Europe and beyond. Rob is also an outstanding artist, whose work has appeared in such diverse places as a British Birds front cover and the Trinidad and Tobago High Commission in Nigeria!
Andy is a zoologist and professional ecologist with a wide sweep of natural history knowledge ranging from Britain's dragonflies through to the birds, mammals and reptiles of the Galápagos! During his extensive global travels, Andy has watched and photographed a spectacular diversity of wild animals and plants. As a result, he understands the importance of clearly written field guides, which allow the reader to arrive at the correct identification as quickly as possible. Andy's eyes are as sharp when reading books as they are in the field, so very little gets past him at the editing stage of our publications. Andy co-founded WILDGuides in 1999 with a commitment to support conservation through sales of all WILDGuides titles.
Dylan is a professional field naturalist, conservationist and author with a passion for the marine environment and, in particular, whales and dolphins (cetaceans). After completing a degree in Ecology at Sheffield University in 1995, a fascination with seabirds and cetaceans led Dylan to conduct research and survey work throughout the eastern North Atlantic from Iceland to the Canary Islands. Since 1996, when Dylan launched ecotourism business The Company of Whales, he has conducted surveys over 30,000km of transect in the Bay of Biscay, becoming a leading authority on the wildlife of the region and chairman of the charity ORCA. Dylan still spends two months a year in the field with amateur naturalists, who give him an insight into their requirements from wildlife field guides. Dylan has travelled throughout the oceans of the Northern Hemisphere, photographing and studying over twenty species of marine mammal. Having authored several articles, papers and books, as well as the only annual report on the status of Europe's cetaceans, he is currently managing the forthcoming title 'Whales and Dolphins of the North American Pacific'. Dylan co-ordinates the internal communications of the WILDGuides team and is in charge of the OCEANGuides series and the web site.
Brian has recently exited a long career in telecommunications which took him around the world over a 30 year period. He now runs his own consultancy, County Ornithological Services, based upon lectures, guided walks and survey work. He has been interested in birds since before time began, starting as a young lad in Birmingham. Since then he has spent much of the last 30 years studying the birds of Berkshire.
He served on the local RSPB Group Committee for over 20 years, has written several books on local wildlife and is an occasional contributor to wildlife magazines. He also publishes the monthly Berkshire Bird Bulletin and has done so since 1986. Brian manages the customer-facing activities of WildGuides, processing orders, coordinating promotions and trying to ensure our stockists and purchasers get all the support they need.
