A Changing World for Kansas Birds

Topeka Audubon Society

Kansas is a bird-watchers paradise, an astounding 491 species have been documented in the state. But this is a changing world, join us as we learn more about birds, birding, and the challenges.

Pete and Bob recently completed a five-year commitment to the University Press of Kansas resulting in the publication of The Guide to Kansas Birds and Birding Hotspots, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded. Kansas is a bird-watchers paradise, boasting exceptional habitat diversity and a key location at the hub of the hemisphere’s migration corridors. Bring your books for Pete and Bob to sign. Books will also be available for purchase.

Bob Gress is the former director of the Great Plains Nature Center in Wichita and co-founder of www.BirdsInFocus.com.  Bob has photographed wildlife in wild places throughout North American, Central America, South America, Australia, New Zealand, Asia and Africa.  Over 5,500 of his wildlife photos have been published and are seen in a variety of magazines and in more than eighty books.  Check out Bob’s bird images at: www.BirdsInFocus.com

Pete Janzen is active in the Kansas Ornithological Society and the Wichita Audubon Society and is the author of The Birds of Sedgwick County and Cheney Reservoir, as well as numerous articles and papers devoted to birding in Kansas and Oklahoma. Pete has birded every county in Kansas multiple times and has recorded 150 or more species of birds in nearly all of them!

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