Carl D’Silva was a wildlife artist who grew up in Mumbai and later  settled in Goa. Born on 24 August 1963 D’Silva showed signs of early interest in art in his school days. He went on to get a formal art degree from the Sir JJ School of Arts. Having shown proclivity towards drawing natural beings and landscapes from a young age, D’Silva combined his two interests by joining the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), a wildlife conservation organisation, as a staff artist in the mid-1980s. Between 1987 - 1992, D’Silva exhibited his artwork at London’s Mall Galleries on the invitation of the Society of Wildlife Artists, becoming the first Indian artist to do so.  Carl’s most significant work and, perhaps, his seminal contribution to the Indian wildlife art, were his illustrations for the popular bird identification field-guide The Birds of the Indian Subcontinent. Carl illustrated for the 13th edition of Book of Indian Birds by Salim Ali, his old guru at the BNHS as well. Besides these, Carl also illustrated for field-guides on ducks, geese, partridges, pheasants and birds of South-East Asia. Apart from his bird and wildlife art, Carl demonstrated great craftsmanship in working with diverse materials like PoP to create large decorative models and wall art. Carl is one of the founding members of the Goa Bird Conservation Network.