This book is the outcome of a major international conference on waterbirds held in Edinburgh in April 2004.

Although the title reads "waterfowl", this book presents an overview of all Anatidae species with color plates along with black-and-white illustrations and maps

This book is a result of the authors' more than 40 years of study on the behavior, populations, and heavy metals in the colonial waterbirds nesting in Barnegat

The main objective of bringing out a book of this sort is to popularize the story of transcontinental migrant shorebirds visiting the West Coast region of India