Nico Arcilla is an avian ecologist and conservation biologist with 30 years of professional experience, including projects in the Americas, Pacific and Caribbean islands, Africa and Madagascar, and Europe and the Middle East. She is co-author of over 40 peer-reviewed scientific articles, a member of the IUCN Hornbill Species Specialist Group, and chair of the Raptor Research Foundation’s Beingolea Grant committee. She earned her BA from Yale University, MS from Cornell University, and PhD from the University of Georgia (USA), carried out postdoctoral research at the Smithsonian Institution and Drexel University, and is an affiliate fellow at the University of Nebraska.