As long as anyone can remember, Alan Craig has been the editor of Western Birds. Thirteen years—and thirteen volumes—to be exact—ever since Western Birds emerged as the "mature adult" form of the fledgling journal California Birds, in its fourth year of publication.
Actually, Alan was there at the beginning, as one of the original editors of California Birds. Indeed, Alan wrote the very first sentence that appeared on page one of the first issue of the first volume of the journal—just as he would later write the first sentence to appear in Western Birds.