Kingbird Highway is a unique coming-of-age story, combining a lyrical celebration of nature with wild, and sometimes dangerous, adventures, starring a colorful cast of characters. What had been a game became a quest for a deeper understanding of the natural world.

His goal was to set a record - most North American species seen in a year - but along the way he began to realize that at this breakneck pace he was only looking, not seeing. When he was broke he would pick fruit or do odd jobs to earn the fifty dollars or so that would last him for weeks. A report of a rare bird would send him hitching nonstop from Pacific to Atlantic and back again.

We were birding, and that made all the difference. Maybe not all that unusual a thing to do in the seventies, but what Kenn was searching for was a little different: not sex, drugs, God, or even self, but birds. Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder by Kenn Kaufman 2,043 ratings, 4.26 average rating, 212 reviews Open Preview Kingbird Highway Quotes Showing 1-25 of 25 But in the early 1970s, we were not birdwatching. Kenn Kaufman takes us on an unbelieveable true story about the biggest year in the life of an extreme birder.At sixteen, Kenn Kaufman dropped out of the high school where he was student council president and hit the road, hitching back and forth across America, from Alaska to Florida, Maine to Mexico. He doesn't find everything on his journey, but he has a great experience, lots of fun, a chance to follow his dream and learn more about the world and some life-lessons. Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder. It starts off in Kansas, his new home state, and goes everywhere, hitch-hiking from state to state to state. Born in South Bend, Indiana, Kaufman started birding from the age of six. The birder who gets the most birds on his list wins the big-year. 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. In the map, he goes all around North America in pursuit of rare birds to add to his year list. Learning about birds, gaining wisdom, and finding secrets about living an extraordinary life during the changing year of 1973. 2006, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers. by Kenn Kaufman 5. Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder. This Auto-biography Kingbird Highway takes you on a journey all throughout America and around Canada and Mexico as well. Kingbird highway the story of a natural obsession that got a little out of hand 1st Mariner books ed. Kenn Kaufman, a young birder filled with the love of birds, goes on a true story around the world to follow his dream.

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