Paul Lehman
Paul Lehman has traveled extensively throughout virtually every nook and cranny on the continent, and has written many articles and papers on North American bird distribution and identification. Paul gew up in the suburbs of New York City, where he started birding at the age of nine. He then moved to California where he lived for 20 years before moving back to the east coast in 1994 to Cape May, New Jersey, where he continues to reside. Formerly a lecturer in geography and Environmental studies at the University of California in Santa Barbara, Paul has strong interest in the fields of weather, biogeography, and North American regional geography. He was past editor of Birding magazine for nine years, from 1989-1997. He was also chief editor of the recently published ABA/Lane birdfinding guide to North America’s major metropolitan regions and has been a principal consultant on several popular field guides, most recently as senior range-map researcher and consultant for the new editions of Roger Tory Peterson’s Field Guide to the Birds (East), the National Geographic Society’s Field Guide to the Birds of North America and their Complete Birds of North America, and the two-volume Sibley East and West field guides. He is currently updating the maps and entire text for the Peterson Western Field Guide.