Birds of India and the Indian Subcontinent

Jan Willem Den Besten was born in The Netherlans in 1970. He started to visit India in the early 1990s and after completing his degree in Environmental Education at Deventer in 1994 he set up a recycling programme in Dharamsala, Himachal pradesh. Since 1996 he resumed his childhood hobbies of birdwatching and photography and started to map the birds of Kangra. Den Besten's articles on birds of the area are published in scientific magazines and he is involved in various education and training programmes; in 2003 he co-founded Kangra Bird Club.