Ken Kaufman Speaks at Holden Arboretum
in September!
FOUNDED 1940
Flying Gardens:
How to attract butterflies and birds to your garden.

Friday, September 10 from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.  Free lecture will be followed by refreshments and book signing. Registration required. Call (440) 602-3816 or  to register or for more information. Click here for more info

In the Field and Brunch with Kenn Kaufman

Saturday, September 11 from 7:30 - 10:30 a.m. Cost is $25 for members and $35 for nonmembers Registration required. Call (440) 602-3816 to register or for more information. Limited attendance.

A Birder Looks at Butterflies

Saturday, September 11 from 1:00-2:00 p.m. Cost is $5 for members, $8 for nonmembers, registration required. Call (440) 602-3816 to register or for more information.
 

KENN KAUFMAN, a legend among birders, has perhaps done more than any other person to evangelize on behalf on birding.  A longtime friend and disciple of the late eminent birder and naturalist Roger Tory Peterson, Kaufman embodies the traditions Peterson embraced throughout his life.  He is, without a doubt, the heir to Peterson’s talent for making the natural world accessible to all people.

At sixteen, Kaufman dropped out of high school—“Do you want to be a loser?” his guidance counselor asked the then student body president—and began an 80,000-mile cross-country journey, hitchhiking and taking the occasional Greyhound bus, intent on breaking the record for sighting the most species of birds in a single year.  He did break the record and launched a career that has made his name the most recognizable in the world of birding.  Having gained renown as a top birder while still a teenager, Kaufman was tapped while in his twenties by Roger Tory Peterson himself to write and illustrate The Peterson Field Guide to Advanced Birding, the first “expert” guide to North American birds.

Kaufman is a field editor for Audubon magazine and a regular contributor to every major birding magazine.  He is the youngest person ever to receive the highest honor of the American Birding Association, and he has been voted to Elective Membership in the prestigious American Ornithologists’ Union.  His books include Lives of North American Birds, Kingbird Highway, and The Peterson Field Guide to Advanced Birding.  In 2000, Houghton Mifflin launched the Kaufman Focus Guide series with his Birds of North America.  The Kaufman Focus Guide to Butterflies of North America was published in March 2003 followed by The Kaufman Focus Guide to Mammals of North America in April 2004.  He is currently at work on his next book in the series, The Kaufman Focus Guide to Insects of North America, due to be published in Spring 2005.

Kenn Kaufman lives in Tucson, Arizona, with his wife, Lynn.