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Kenn Kaufman’s Birding Top 10
One of North America’s birding icons shares his favorite birding experiences.

By Jennifer Uscher
Originally published on AARP The Magazine Online in July 2006

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In 1973, Kenn Kaufman dropped out of high school to hitchhike across North America and see as many birds as possible in one year. He traveled 80,000 miles and later wrote about his adventures in the witty memoir Kingbird Highway: The Story of a Natural Obsession That Got a Little Out of Hand. His other books include the newly updated Kaufman Field Guide to Birds of North America and the groundbreaking, first-ever Spanish-language field guide to North America’s birds: Guía de Campo Kaufman a las Aves de Norteamerica.

Kaufman loves to encourage people to explore nature, and his approach is a democratic one. “Birdwatching is something that we do for enjoyment, so if you enjoy it, you are already a good birder. If you enjoy it a lot, you are a great birder!” he has written. We asked this veritable birding icon to share his picks for the top 10 experiences (in no particular order) that every American birdwatcher should seek at least once in his or her life. The following, taken from an interview, is in his words:

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