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# 1 - Bearded Vulture - Peter Jackson

# 2 - Hoopoe - Peter Jackson

# 3 - Sultanpur as it looked in 1968 - Peter Jackson

# 4 - eminent ornithologists at Sultanpur in November 1969. Left to right: Salim Ali, Dillon Ripley (Secretary of the Smithsonian), Christopher Savage, Guy Mountfort (who became President of the British Ornithologists' Union), Tom Roberts (author of works on birds and mammals of Pakistan), Peter Jackson.

# 5 - Peter Jackson and Sir Julian Huxley at Keoladeo Sanctuary, Bharatpur 1958. Sir Julian wrote: "I shall never forget our wonderful bird day!"

# 6 - Here are the autographs in Peter's birdguide of the eminent ornithologists gathered at Sultanpur on 30 November 1969.
Salim Ali Indian ornithologist, President of Bombay Natural History Society, Dillon Ripley (Secretary, Smithsonian Institution), George Schaller (Wildlife biologist, who carried out first scientific study of the tiger), Peter Byrne (Irish hunter turned conservationist), Tom Roberts (Author of books on Pakistan wildlife), Anangalik, Dharmakumarsinhji (Indian wildlife expert), Usha Ganguli ( Author of A Guide to the Birds of the Delhi Area), Jacqueline Haricot (Belgian conservationist), Maisie Fitter (Editor, Oryx magazine), Peter Scott (Founder of the Wildfowl Trust), Richard Fitter (Author of bird guides), Kathleen McNamara (American conservationist), Hugh Elliott  (British ornithologist and former Director General of IUCN), Roger Holmes (British ornithologist resident in India, Bill Williams (Former  Engineer-in-Chief, Indian Army, and author of Delhi birdlists, Elliot McClure (American  ornithologist leading studies of Asian bird migration), J.A. Fernandes (?). Three signatures unidentified.
Guy Mountfort (later President, British Ornithologists's Union) signed on the title page of the guide, of which he was second author). Roger Tory Peterson, the first author, also signed that page, as did Julian Huxley British ornithologist and ethologist, and former Director of Unesco.

# 7 - Salim&Bill : A much younger Bill Harvey sharing a South Indian breakfast with the late Dr Salim Ali at his then house in Madras in 1980, after an early morning bird watch in the Theosophical Society. The Old Man was extremely fond of traditional South Indian breakfasts.

# 8 - Salim Ali and Peter Jackson in Borivli in 1979.

#9 - delhibird walk July 2001

#10 -  delhibird walk September 2001

#11 - delhbird walk September 2001

#12 - delhibird walk October 2001

#13 - The habitat at Khadar (Yamuna) being destroyed with the settlement colony comming up

#14 - The Habitat at Basai ( Sultanpur )

# 15 - Painted Snipe - Ringing Camp Basai September 2001

#16 - Warbler - Ringing Camp Basai September 2001

#17 - White-breasted Kingfisher - Ringing Camp Basai September 2001

#18 - Warblers - Ringing Camp Basai September 2001

#19 - Common Teal ( Male ) - Ringing Camp Basai September 2001

#20 - The Team - Ringing Camp Basai September 2001

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