Please join our members and any guests are welcomed to hear Kenn Kaufman speak at the Columbus Audubon annual program and meeting Tuesday March 27 at the Grange Insurance Audubon Center. Read on for more details: A Night with Kenn Kaufman Presented by Columbus Audubon Author & Naturalist The American Birding Association recently presented Kenn Kaufman with its lifetime achievement award for the second time - a surprising development, he says, because he's 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. Meet Kenn Kaufman at Wild Birds Unlimited on Riverside Drive for a book signing and refreshments from 12 - 2 pm. Then, join Columbus Audubon for their feature presentation by acclaimed author & naturalist, Kenn Kaufman. Kenn's presentation begins at 7 pm, and concludes with a book signing. Visit www.ColumbusAudubon.org for more details! 12 - 2 pm Wild Birds Unlimited 5400 Riverside Dr. Columbus, OH 43220 (614) 766-2103 www.wbu.com/columbusoh 7 - 9 pm Grange Insurance Audubon Center 505 W Whittier St Columbus, OH (614) 545-5475 www.columbusaudubon.org ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]