Tomohiro Deguchi is an associate professor at the University of Hyogo. After earning his doctorate from Hokkaido University in 2004 for research on the foraging and breeding ecology of the Rhinoceros Auklet, he became a researcher at the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology; there, as a member of an international team dedicated to the recovery of the Short-tailed Albatross, he led a reintroduction project to the Ogasawara Islands until 2019. Currently, he conducts research and education focused on the behavioural ecology and reintroduction biology of species such as the Oriental Stork and the Oriental Dollarbird.