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 co-authored the sixth and seventh editions of National Geographic Society’s Field Guide to the Birds of North America. He was the Chief Consultant/Editor for the first five editions. 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’ Society and has served some 30 years on the California Bird Records Committee. He has also been on the Board of Directors for Western Field Ornithologists for over a decade. In 2012, Jon was the recipient of the ABA’s Roger Tory Peterson Award, given for a lifetime of achievements in promoting the cause of birding. Beyond birds, Jon has a keen interest in politics, history, and the cinema, and a keen appreciation for the poetry and music of Leonard Cohen. Read an interview with Jon on BirdWatchingDaily.com.
Photo: Jo Heindel
Tours
- Spring Migration in the Midwest - Eastern Wood Warblers including Kirtland's (8-19 May 2019) Waitlist only
- Alaska: Gambell (May 26 to Jun 4, 2019 with extensions to 7 Jun and to 9 Jun) Waitlist only
- Maryland and West Virginia: Birding the American Civil War - Gettysburg, Antietam, and the Appalachians (16-23 June 2019)
- Idaho: Cassia Crossbill and Southern Idaho (12-20 August 2019)NEW Waitlist only
- California: The South - The Southern Coast, Santa Cruz Island, the Salton Sea, and the Mojave Desert (4-14 September 2019) Waitlist only
- Thailand: The Northwest (6-19 February 2020)
- Thailand: The South - Khao Yai and Kaeng Krachen National Parks and the Spoon-billed Sandpiper (Feb 19 to Mar 3, 2020)
- Cuba (Mar 26 to Apr 4, 2020)
- Texas: The Edwards Plateau and Big Bend (17-26 April 2020)
- Spring Migration in the Midwest - Eastern Wood Warblers including Kirtland's (6-17 May 2020)
- Alaska: Gambell (May 28 to Jun 6, 2020 with extensions to 9 Jun and to 11 Jun)
- Arizona: Second Spring (Jul 26 to Aug 6, 2020)
- Georgia and South Carolina - Birding the American Civil War: Savannah to Charleston (May 2021)
Updated: January 2018