Conservation Spotlight: Stephanie Malinick, OSU Museum of Biodiversity “Good Samaritan Salvaging for Museums: Learn what information is useful to museums and the who, what, when, where, why’s to salvaging avian specimens in museum work.”
Featured Speaker: Kenn Kaufman What is the future of birding? Brave souls who try to make predictions are often tripped up by reality, because the future arrives sooner than we think it will, and always with surprising twists. Kenn Kaufman decided to take a new approach, going to the extreme in futuristic birding — pursuing birds in outer space! — and then working his way back to earth. Kenn assures us that (1) “This talk isn’t about what you think it is,” and (2) the perspective from out there in space is really valuable, and it can affect how we look at birds (and birders, and all of nature) today and tomorrow. Kenn Kaufman is a writer, artist, and naturalist, with a focus on birds. He has written a dozen books, including his own series of Kaufman Field Guides; the latest title in the series is a guide to nature of the Midwest, published in 2015. His other books include Kingbird Highway, Lives of North American Birds, and Flights Against the Sunset. He lives in Oak Harbor, Ohio, where his wife Kimberly is director of the Black Swamp Bird Observatory.