American naturalist, author, artist and conservationist
Kenn Kaufman
Born
1954 (age 69–70)
South Bend, Indiana, U.S.
Occupations
Author
Artist
Naturalist
Conservationist
Awards
Ludlow Griscom Award
Roger Tory Peterson Award
Website
birdingwithkennandkim.blogspot.com
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.
Born in South Bend, Indiana, Kaufman began birding at the age of six.[1] When he was nine, his family moved to Wichita, Kansas, where his fascination with birds intensified.[2] 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.[3] 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.[4][5] However, this record included regions like Baja California that are no longer ornithologically considered part of North America and has since been surpassed.[6] His cross-country birding journey, covering some eighty thousand miles, was eventually recorded in a memoir, Kingbird Highway.[7]
Subsequently, he focused his work on creating and expanding upon birding field guides. In 1992, he was given the Ludlow Griscom Award by the American Birding Association. Kaufman also received the ABA Roger Tory Peterson Award in 2008 for a "lifetime of achievements in promoting the cause of birding."[8]
Kaufman resides in Oak Harbor, Ohio with his wife Kimberly.[9] Today Kenn writes for Birds and Blooms,[9]Bird Watcher's Digest,[10] and works/volunteers at the Black Swamp Bird Observatory.[11] Kaufman maintains a weblog where he reports bird sightings in the northwest region of Ohio and makes predictions about the spring bird migration.[12]
^Kaufman, Kenn. Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, pp. 2-3.
^Kaufman, Kenn. Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, pp. 3-6.
^Kaufman, Kenn. Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, pp. 6, passim.
^Kaufman, Kenn. Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Appendix, pp. 317-8.
^"How to Deal With Birding FOMO". Audubon. 2018-05-18. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
^Kaufman, Kenn. Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
^Kaufman, Kenn. Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, passim.
^"American Birding Association Awards". Archived from the original on 2008-12-20. Retrieved December 18, 2005.
^ ab"Interview with Ken and Kimberly Kaufman". Birds & Blooms. Archived from the original on September 8, 2012. Retrieved November 18, 2012.
^"Kaufmann at Birdwatchers' Digest". Birdwatchers' Digest. Retrieved November 18, 2012.
^"BSBO Staff". Black Swamp Bird Observatory. Archived from the original on April 1, 2013. Retrieved November 18, 2012.
^Kaufman, Kenn. "Birding the Crane Creek". Retrieved January 1, 2013.
KennKaufman (born 1954) is an American author, artist, naturalist, and conservationist, known for his work on several popular field guides of birds and...
Plectrodera scalator. Retrieved on 8 September 2014. Eaton, Eric R.; KennKaufman (2007). Kaufman field guide to insects of North America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt...
Entomologist. 51 (3): 174–179. doi:10.1093/ae/51.3.174. Eaton, Eric R.; KennKaufman (2007). Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America. New York: Houghton Mifflin...
a list of 626 species. In 1973, KennKaufman and Floyd Murdoch both pursued Parker's record. As recounted in Kaufman's book Kingbird Highway, both broke...
)". Ent. News. 26: 265–268. Eric R. Eaton & KennKaufman (2007). "Rhinoceros Beetles and Others". Kaufman field guide to insects of North America. Houghton...
Rhiginia lateralis (Lepeletier and Serville, 1825) Eaton, Eric R.; Kaufman, Kenn, Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America, p. 116 ITIS. "Standard...
Implanted with Intracoelomic Satellite Transmitters" ISSN 1524-4695 Kenn, Kaufman (2007)., Western Grebe. Birder's World, 21(6), 40-42. Ratti, J. T. (1979)...
(2001). Butterflies of Arizona. West Coast Lady Press. Jim P. Brock and KennKaufman (2003). Butterflies of North America. Houghton Mifflin, New York, NY...
University Press, Stanford, CA. ISBN 0-8047-2013-4 Jim P. Brock and KennKaufman (2003). Butterflies of North America. Houghton Mifflin, New York, NY...
to lights, while the females are flightless. Eaton, Eric R.; Kaufman, Kenn (2007). Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt...
around North America and saw 626 species. This record was beaten by KennKaufman in 1973 who travelled 69,000 miles and saw 671 species and spent less...
Press, Princeton, NJ. ISBN 0-691-09055-6[page needed] Jim P. Brock and KennKaufman (2003). Butterflies of North America. Houghton Mifflin, New York, NY...
American Insects. Retrieved January 23, 2015. Eric R. Eaton; KennKaufman (2007). Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt...
en. Retrieved 12 March 2022. Bowers, Nora; Rick Bowers; and KennKaufman (2004). Kaufman Guide to North American Mammals. NY: Houghton-Mifflin Co. p.176...
sometimes be very common on flowers and vegetation. Eric R. Eaton; KennKaufman (2007). Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America (Illustrated ed.). Hillstar...
Checkerspot, Butterflies and Moths of North America Jim P. Brock, KennKaufman (2003) Kaufman Field Guide to Butterflies of North America. Boston: Houghton...
Wikispecies has information related to Papilio indra. Jim P. Brock and KennKaufman (2003). Butterflies of North America. Houghton Mifflin, New York, NY...
Potter Printing (Boston), 1898. Eaton, Eric R.; KennKaufman. (2007). "Deer flies and horse flies". Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America. Hillstar...
Arizona. West Coast Lady Press. ISBN 0-9663072-1-6 Jim P. Brock and KennKaufman (2003). Butterflies of North America. Houghton Mifflin, New York, NY...
(Diptera: Brachycera)". Zootaxa. 2592 (1): 1–133. Eaton, Eric R.; Kaufman, Kenn (2007). Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt...
Palm Springs, Florida, November 3, 2014, - archive link Jim P. Brock, KennKaufman (2003). Butterflies of North America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-618-15312-8...
Parsnip, Pastinaca sativa Parsley, Petroselinum crispum Jim P. Brock and KennKaufman (2003). Butterflies of North America. Houghton Mifflin, New York, NY...
ornithologist and author Lee G R Evans: British twitcher and ornithologist KennKaufman: American field guide author and writer Richard Koeppel: subject of To...
University Press, Princeton, NJ. ISBN 0-691-09055-6 Jim P. Brock and KennKaufman (2003). Butterflies of North America. Houghton Mifflin, New York, NY...
Animalia kingdom and was catalogued by Ulmer in 1905. Eaton, Eric R. & Kaufman, Kenn. Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America. New York:Houghton Mifflin...
species, Metaleptea adspersa. Eric R. Eaton & KennKaufman (2007). "Short-horned grasshoppers". Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America. Houghton...
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