Jon Dunn
Jon Dunn has lived much of his life in California, where he became a birder at age 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 avifaunas. Jon has been Chief Consultant/Editor for all five editions of the National Geographic Society’s Field Guide to the Birds of North America, the most recent published in 2006. 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 Field Guide to Warblers. Jon is a member of the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Ornithologists’ 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. Read a recent interview with Jon in Birding magazine.
Photo: Jo Heindel
Tours
- Alaska: The PribilofsNEW!
- Alaska, Birding the Last Frontier NEW!
- Migration in the Midwest: The Eastern Wood Warblers
- California: The South, The Southern Coast, Santa Cruz Island, the Salton Sea, and the Mohave Desert
- Arizona: Second Spring
- Alaska: Gambell
- Poland in Spring
- Georgia and South Carolina, Birding the American Civil War: Savannah to CharlestonNEW!
- Thailand: Peninsular Thailand and Gurney's PittaNEW!
- Texas: The West, The Edwards Plateau, Big Bend National Park, and the Davis Mountains
- Texas: The Upper Coast
- Thailand: The Coast to the Highlands
- Newfoundland: Winter Birds
- Malaysia and Borneo
- California: The Southern Sierra and the Kern River Valley