Jon Dunn Well-received at TPBF ’12

Michigan Audubon is proud for hosting “Mr. Warlber,” Jon Dunn, on Thursday, May 17, to kick off the 2012 Tawas Point Birding Festival.

Jon 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. Jon has been Chief Consultant/Editor for all six editions of the National Geographic Society’s Field Guide to the Birds of North America, the most recent published in 2011 (excerpted with permission from the Wings Birding Tours website.