11 Riverside Aveneue Concord, MA 01742 Phone: (978) 369-5768 E-mail: peteralden@aol.com

click on image to enlarge "Don Pedro de los Pajaros" leading nature walk Walden Pond, September, 2002

• B.A. Geography, Anthropology, Univerity of Arizona

Organizations

• President of Nuttall Ornithological Club
• Founding member of International Avian Vernaculars Committee
• Chair of Blake Fund
• Who's Who in America 2000
• Who's Who in the World 2001
• Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, Massachusetts
• Biodiversity Aide to Secretary Robert Durand Sept. 1999-July 2002

Activities

• Organized first-ever government-sponsored statewide biodiversity event
Involved 300 specialists, 700 walk leaders, 5000 citizens and 10,000 school children finding close to 3,000 species June 9-11, 2000.
• Organized second Mass. Biodiversity Days June 8-10, 2001
Involved 30,000 participants.
• On May 31-June 3, 2002 about 1,000 nature walks will take place in 325 towns.
Overseeing first ever state database checklist of visible organisms (15,000 sp.)
• Organizer of World's First 1,000+ species Biodiversity Day.
Arranged to have 125 top scientific and amateur naturalists to join Dr. Edward O. Wilson (see his "The Future of Life" Knopf, 2002) and me to find 1,905 species (larger than 1 mm) near Walden Pond in Concord/Lincoln on July 4, 1998.
• World Eco-tourism Designer, Nauturalist Guide and Lecturer
Harvard Museum of Natural History Travel Program 1991-2002
(on HMNH lecture committee: involved w/ RTPeterson Memorial Lectures) TCS Expeditions (lecturer on Private Jet Expeditions) 2001-2002
Overseas Adventure Travel 1992-1995
Lindblad Travel, Inc. (a former vice-president) 1982-1989
Massachusetts Audubon Society 1968-1982
Leading ecotourism clients on over 250 safaris, cruises (Lindblad Explorer, Ocean Princess, Marco Polo, Pearl, Yorktown Clipper, Sea Cloud, Silver Shadow, others) and nature tours to over 100 countries in the Arctic, Latin America, Antarctica (16 times), Galapagos (26 times), Europe, Africa, Indian Ocean, Asia, Australia and the South Pacific.
Pioneered the scouting and first departures of birders and naturalists to many Third World countries.

Writing

• Author of 15 books on U.S. nature and overseas wildlife National Audubon Society Regional Field Guides (Knopf):
  Main author of NAS FG's to New England, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Florida, Southwest, Rocky Mountains, California, and Pacific Northwest 1998-1999 (each covers 1000 common species of fungi, flora and fauna; parks, habitats)
  Also:
  Nat. Audubon Soc. Field Guide to African Wildlife (Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, Parks w/Dick Estes/Knopf) 1995
  Photo-Guide des Animaux d'Afrique (Delachaux et Niestle) 2001
  Peterson First Guide: Mammals (of No. America; Ho. Mif. Co) 1987
  Birds and Mammals Coloring Books (w/Roger T.Peterson) 1982 & 1987
  Finding Birds Around the World (w/ John Gooders, HoMifCo) 1981
  Finding Birds in Western Mexico (Univ. of Arizona Press) 1969
  

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