That was what turned into the focus for the book. But I didn’t really start to gain a deeper understanding of it until I spent some time just staying at home and watching what was happening in one place. In the past, I had traveled all over the continent and really all over the world to visit places where there were spectacles of migration. Do you know what I mean? It’s about bird migration, but it takes place mostly in this birding mecca in Ohio near where you live, doesn’t it? Now, in this new book, you sort of stay put. Margaret: You take us hither and yon as you detail your own migrations in a given year of your youth, hitchhiking around in pursuit of birds. Margaret: Congratulations on the new book, “A Season on the Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration.” One of your earlier books is one of my favorite books, “Kingbird Highway,” when you take us. You can subscribe to all future editions on iTunes or Spotify or Stitcher (and browse my archive of podcasts here).
Read along as you listen to the edition of my public-radio show and podcast using the player below. I’ll give away a copy of the book to one lucky reader-enter in the comments box at the bottom of the page. We talked about a theme in the new book that isn’t so upbeat: How one form of renewable energy, wind turbines, pose a substantial hazard to birds when placed in their concentration points-such as where migrating birds stop over during their long journeys.Īnd about how despite all these years of watching migrations, Kenn still feels awe. Kenn encourages us to track signs of the migration right in our own backyards, and offers other encouragement. We discussed what triggers birds to move-and why some go long distances versus shorter ones, or choose to fly by day or instead by night. He and his wife, Kimberly, director of the Black Swamp Bird Observatory, live on the west end of Lake Erie, where spring brings millions of birds virtually to their doorstep, including many warblers (that’s his photo of a bay-breasted warbler, top of page). His lifelong interest in them began at age 6. Kenn, originator of the indispensable Kaufman Field Guide series, is one of the world’s leading naturalists and experts on birds. THE SPRING MIGRATION is on, so birds and their travels were the subject of my recent conversation with Kenn Kaufman, author of the recent book, “A Season on the Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration.”
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