Dr. Ali and Peter Jackson
<p>British journalist, photographer and author, Peter Jackson, seen in Mumbai in 1979 with Dr. Sálim Ali, his lifelong birding partner. In '<a href="https://www.sanctuarynaturefoundation.org/article/half-a-century-ago">Half a Century Ago</a>' (<em>Sanctuary Asia</em>, Vol. 26, No. 5, October 2006), he recalls one such visit:</p>
<p>“The year was 1954. General Sir Harold Williams, Engineer in Chief of the Indian Army, had invited me and my wife, Adrienne, to go birding. This was special, for he had bet India’s renowned ornithologist, Dr. Sálim Ali, that you could see 60 bird species at Okhla before breakfast... Dr. Sálim Ali was a lively, friendly man… we wandered along the bank of the Yamuna with Sálim naming birds. In two hours, we had seen 68 species and then we had breakfast.”</p>
<p><em>Image courtesy: Peter Jackson</em></p>
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