Prof. Ma Ming (the family name is Ma) is from Urumqi, Xinjiang, the west of China. He’s a professor of zoology in Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences. And he is also the director of the Xinjiang Zoology Society and a council member of Scientific Committee of the China Ornithological Society. In the past twenty years he has mainly studied on the breeding ecology of black stork and other rare / endangered birds in the west of China (maming@ms.xjb.ac.cn).