Jon Dunn has lived much of his life in California where he became a birder at age eight, a life-altering event triggered, he says, by the 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 written or co-written numerous papers on these subjects that have appeared 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 to the National Geographic Society’s Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 1st to 5th editions, most recently published in 2006. He was co-writer and host of the two-video set Large and Small Gulls of North America in the Advanced Birding Video Series as well as co-author with Kimball Garrett of Birds of Southern California, Status and Distribution and Warblers. Jon is a member of the American Ornithologists’ Union Checklist Committee, the ABA Checklist Committee and has served over 20 years on the California Bird Records Committee. Beyond birds, Jon has a keen interest in politics and history (his “hobbies”), and the cinema.

Tours

• Alaska: Gambell
• California: The Southern Sierra and the Kern River Valley
• Ohio, Ontario and Michigan: Crane Creek, Point Pelee and Kirtland's Warbler
• Malaysia and Borneo
• Newfoundland: Winter Birds
• Texas: The Upper Coast
• Texas: The Edwards Plateau, Big Bend National Park and the Davis Mountains
• Arizona: Second Spring
• Thailand
• California: The Southern Coast, Santa Cruz Island, the Salton Sea and the Mohave Desert
• Birding the Plains of CambodiaNEW!

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