Dr Mark Andrew Brazil is a conservationist

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, author

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 and journalist

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, particularly noted for his work on east Asian birds.

Brazil was born in Worcestershire

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, England

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, and studied at Keele University

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, Staffordshire

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, and Stirling University, Scotland

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. Formerly professor of Biodiversity and Conservation at Rakuno Gakuen University

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is a private university in Ebetsu, Hokkaido, Japan, established in 1960. The predecessor of the school, a dairy juku, was founded in 1933.-External links:*...

, Hokkaido

Hokkaido

, formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is Japan's second largest island; it is also the largest and northernmost of Japan's 47 prefectural-level subdivisions. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaido from Honshu, although the two islands are connected by the underwater railway Seikan Tunnel...

; previously scientific advisor/researcher for Natural History Television New Zealand

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Brazil has been 'Wild Watch' columnist for The Japan Times

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newspaper since April 1982, one of the longest running natural history newspaper columns.

Publications

• 1987: A Birdwatcher's Guide to Japan, Kodansha America ISBN 0870118498
• 1991: The Birds of Japan, Christopher Helm Publishers Ltd ISBN 0713680067
• 2000: Wild Asia: Spirit of a Continent, Pelican Publishing ISBN 1565548272
• 2003: The Whooper Swan, ISBN 071366570X
• 2009: Field Guide to the Birds of East Asia, Helm Field Guides series, A&C Black ISBN 978 0713670400

External links

• The Whooper Swan by Mark Brazil as an eBook download, accessed 28 December 2010
• Wild Watch Japan, Brazil's own website, accessed 28 December 2010
• Japan Times Wild Watch column, accessed 28 December 2010