Kenn Kaufman
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South Bend, Indiana, The United States
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Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
16 editions
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1997
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A Season On The Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration
7 editions
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2019
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Birds of North America
13 editions
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2000
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Kaufman Field Guide to Advanced Birding: Understanding What You See and Hear
12 editions
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1990
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The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness
4 editions
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2024
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Kaufman Field Guide To Nature Of The Midwest
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2 editions
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2015
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Kaufman Field Guide to Mammals of North America
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9 editions
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2004
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Lives of North American Birds
10 editions
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1996
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Flights Against the Sunset: Stories that Reunited a Mother and Son
7 editions
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2008
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Kaufman Field Guide To Nature Of New England
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3 editions
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2012
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
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Kaufman Field Guide to Advanced Birding: Understanding What You See and Hear
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“But in the early 1970s, we were not birdwatching. We were birding, and that made all the difference. We were out to seek, to discover, to chase, to learn, to find as many different kinds of birds as possible — and, in friendly competition, to try to find more of them than the next birder. We became a community of birders, with the complications that human societies always have; and although it was the birds that had brought us together, our story became a human story after all.”
― Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
― Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
“ Dreams and coffee and sunrises make up the rhythms of the road.
Music is a part of it, too: the popular music on the jukeboxes and radio stations. You hear it constantly, in diners and on car radios. The music has a rhythm that fits the steady drumming of tires over pavement. It seeps into your bloodstream. After a while it ceases to make any difference whether or not you like the stuff. When you’re traveling alone, a nameless rider with a succession of strangers, it can give you a comforting sense of the familiar to hear the same music over and over.
At any given time, a few current hits will be overplayed to exhaustion by the rock & roll stations. In hitching across the continent, you might hear the same song fifty or sixty times. Certain songs become connected in your mind with certain trips.”
― Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
Music is a part of it, too: the popular music on the jukeboxes and radio stations. You hear it constantly, in diners and on car radios. The music has a rhythm that fits the steady drumming of tires over pavement. It seeps into your bloodstream. After a while it ceases to make any difference whether or not you like the stuff. When you’re traveling alone, a nameless rider with a succession of strangers, it can give you a comforting sense of the familiar to hear the same music over and over.
At any given time, a few current hits will be overplayed to exhaustion by the rock & roll stations. In hitching across the continent, you might hear the same song fifty or sixty times. Certain songs become connected in your mind with certain trips.”
― Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
“On a day like this, I can’t imagine anything better that might happen in a person’s life than for them to start paying attention to birds—to become aware of this magical world that exists all around us, unnoticed by many but totally captivating for those who know its secrets. This kind of spring day, with its bountiful myriads of colorful sprites just arrived from tropical shores, has to be one of the greatest gifts of life on Earth.”
― A Season On The Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration
― A Season On The Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration
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