2007 San Diego Bird Festival
February 7 through 12, 2007
Marina Village Conference Center in Mission Bay

The San Diego Audubon Society is sponsoring the 11th San Diego Bird Festival. We have planned dozens of events including field trips, classes, workshops and vendor product displays. Our banquet keynote speaker will be Kevin Karlson, photographer and author of many books and articles and an active member of New Jersey Audubon.

Kevin Karlson has been a wildlife photographer for 20 years and active as a birder for 22 years. He has traveled from the wilds of the Alaskan Arctic to the rainforests of Central and South America to photograph birds. His work is widely published in all the birding magazines and journals, as well as books, field guides and CD ROM projects. In 1999, Tidemark Press published Kevin's own calendar titled "Birds of the Arctic Tundra", which was endorsed by the American Birding Association.

Kevin has enjoyed numerous cover photographs on magazines and calendars, including the covers of the 1998 and 2000 Cornell "Songbirds" calendars.He has worked closely with Peter Thayer in the production of the Thayer Birding Software CD-Rom "The Birds of North America", both as primary identification consultant and submitter of 349 photos used in the project.

Kevin is currently on the advisory board of Wild Bird Magazine as well as a staff contributor of the monthly column Birder's ID.

Currently a resident of Cape May County NJ, Kevin is a 10-year member of the NJ Bird Records Committee and is active in the Cape May birding community. He is the founder and president of Jaeger Tours, Inc.

http://www.sandiegoaudubon.org/birdfest.htm