Dick Forsman (born 1953 in Helsinki) is a Finnish ornithologist. He is the author of The Raptors of Europe and the Middle East: A Handbook of Field Identification [1] which was selected as one of Birdwatch's Outstanding Bird Books of 1998 [2] due in part to its photography. [3] Forsman is also the author of Flight Identification of Raptors of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East , [4] which was published in 2016. Both books were published by Bloomsbury imprint Christopher Helm.