![]() Kaufman resides in Oak Harbor, Ohio with his wife Kimberly. Kaufman also received the ABA Roger Tory Peterson Award in 2008 for a "lifetime of achievements in promoting the cause of birding." In 1992, he was given the Ludlow Griscom Award by the American Birding Association. Subsequently, he focused his work on creating and expanding upon birding field guides. However, this record included regions like Baja California that are no longer ornithologically considered part of North America and has since been surpassed.His cross-country birding journey, covering some eighty thousand miles, was eventually recorded in a memoir, Kingbird Highway. Three years later, in 1973, he set the record for the most North American bird species seen in one year (671) while participating in a Big Year, a year-long birding competition. At age sixteen, inspired by birding pioneers such as Roger Tory Peterson, he dropped out of high school and began hitchhiking around North America in pursuit of birds. ![]() ![]() When he was nine, his family moved to Wichita, Kansas, where his fascination with birds intensified. Kenn Kaufman (born 1954) is an American author, artist, naturalist, and conservationist, known for his work on several popular field guides of birds and butterflies in North America.īorn in South Bend, Indiana, Kaufman started birding from the age of six. ![]()
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