Glen Dean Chilton (born in 1958) is a Canadian-Australian scholar and author of humorous books on adventure travel and natural history. Chilton is also an ornithologist. His first book The Curse of the Labrador Duck was a finalist in 2010 for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humor and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. His second book, Attack of the Killer Rhodondendrons (a.k.a. The Last Place You'd Look for a Wallaby) achieved the Queensland, Australia best-seller list in 2013. Biography Born in Canada, Chilton moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba with his family in 1967. He received a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science degree in zoology from the University of Manitoba, and a PhD. He was professor of biology and ornithology at St. Mary's University College. Chilton's areas of interest and scientific research include recent extinction events, particularly of bird species; the conservation of plant and animal species rediscovered after having been thought to be extinct. Travel writing On a quest to see all fifty-four stuffed Labrador duck specimens that remain in existence for his first book The Curse of the Labrador Duck, he travelled 72,018 miles by aircraft, 5,461 miles by train, 3,566 miles by car, 1,169 miles by bus and 43 miles by ferry. That distance is the equivalent of 3.3 times around the Earth. His second book, Attack of the Killer Rhodeodendrons (a.k.a. The Last Place You'd Look for a Wallaby), which examined plants and animal species that were introduced to foreign locations by humans, took him to six continents and fourteen countries Publications Non-fiction books Attack of the Killer Rhododendrons: My Obsessive Quest to Seek Out Alien Species (2012) HarperCollins Ltd, Toronto. (also published under the title The Last Place You’d Look for a Wallaby (2013). University of Queensland Press. St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia. ) The Curse of the Labrador Duck: My Obsessive Quest to the Edge of Extinction (2009). HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, Toronto. Book chapters Chilton G (1997). Labrador Duck (Camptorhynchus labradorius). In: The Birds of North America, No. 307. (Poole A, Gills F, eds.) The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, and The American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, DC. Chilton G, Baker, MC, Barrentine CD, Cunningham MA (1995). White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys). In: The Birds of North America, No 183 (Poole A, Gill F, eds). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, and The American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, DC. Scientific journal publications Chilton