December 2011 Meeting

Tue, December 6, 2011, 7:30 pm
Blue Spruce County Park
Speaker: Jon Dunn

Description

Weï¿½re in for another special treat. Jon Dunn, who spoke to Todd in February 1998, is returning to present a program on shorebirds. Jon Dunn has lived much of his life in California, where he became a birder at the age of eight, an event triggered, he says, by the life-altering appearance of a bright male Hooded Oriole in his garden. Jon has extensive knowledge of the identification and distribution of North American birds, and has published numerous papers in a wide variety of journals. He has also long been interested in Asian avifauna. Jon has been Chief Consultant/Editor for all six editions of the National Geographic Societyï¿½s Field Guide to the Birds of North America, the most recent just published. He is the co-writer and host of the two-video set Large and Small Gulls of North America, as well as co-author (with Kimball Garrett) of Birds of Southern California: Status and Distribution and the Peterson seriesï¿½ Field Guide to Warblers. Jon is a member of the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Ornithologistsï¿½ Union and the ABA Checklist Committee, and has served more than 20 years on the California Bird Records Committee. Beyond birds, Jon has a keen interest in politics, history, and the cinema.