Kenn Kaufman will be next guest on BirdCallsRadio

Kenn Kaufman, renowned birdwatcher and author of several books on birds as well as field guides, will be the next guest on BirdCallsRadio, coming up this Sunday (April 22) from 1 to 2 p.m. on 1490 WGCH in southern Connecticut and nearby New York or Listen Live worldwide.

The American Birding Association recently presented Kenn with its lifetime achievement award for the second time, an honor he describes as a “surprising development because I’m not finished yet.”

Kenn burst onto the North American birding scene as a teenager in the 1970s, hitch-hiking all over the continent in pursuit of birds, an adventure later chronicled in his cult-classic book Kingbird Highway.

After working as a leader of nature tours to all seven continents, he made a transition into a career as a freelance writer and naturalist.  Kenn is now a field editor for Audubon magazine, and writes regular columns for both Bird Watcher’s Digest and BirdWatching magazines.

However, most of his energy currently goes into book projects, including his own field guide series, Kaufman Field Guides, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company of Boston. This series now includes volumes on North American birds (in both English and Spanish), butterflies, mammals, and insects, plus the latest volume, Kaufman Field Guide to Advanced Birding, published in 2011.

His other books include Lives of North American Birds and Flights Against the Sunset.

In 2005 he moved from Arizona to northwestern Ohio, where his wife Kimberly is executive director of the Black Swamp Bird Observatory.  His new home is a stone’s throw from the world-famous bird migration hotspot of Magee Marsh, and Kenn is now struggling to write a book that will capture the spectacle of that migration.

This promises to be a lively show with one of America’s most recognizable and well-konwn birders. Have a question for Kenn, send it here and we’ll ask him on the air.

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