Kevin Zimmer
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Upcoming Tours
- Apr 23, 10: Colorado Grouse
- May 10, 10: Spring Grand Arizona
- Jun 02, 10: Grand Alaska: Gambell/Nome Pre-trip
- Jun 09, 10: Grand Alaska Part I: Nome & the Pribilofs
- Jun 17, 10: Grand Alaska Part II: Anchorage, Denali Highway & Kenai Peninsula
- Jun 24, 10: Alaska: Barrow Extension
- Aug 14, 10: Best of Brazil
- Aug 26, 10: Best of Brazil: Iguacu Falls Extension
- Sep 22, 10: Southeastern Brazil Part I: Iguacu Falls Pre-Trip
- Sep 25, 10: Southeastern Brazil Part I
- Oct 07, 10: Southeastern Brazil Part II
- Oct 26, 10: Brazilian Specialties
- Jan 05, 11: Winter New Mexico
- Jan 22, 11: Panama: Chiriqui Highlands
- Jan 29, 11: Panama's Canopy Tower
- Feb 05, 11: Panama: El Valle's Canopy Lodge Extension
- Feb 12, 11: Honduras: Copan
- Feb 17, 11: Honduras: Pico Bonito Lodge
- Apr 03, 11: Spring in South Texas
- Apr 22, 11: Colorado Grouse
- May 10, 11: Spring Grand Arizona
- Jun 02, 11: Grand Alaska: Gambell/Nome Pre-trip
- Jun 09, 11: Grand Alaska Part I: Nome & the Pribilofs
- Jun 18, 11: Grand Alaska Part II: Anchorage, Denali Highway & Kenai Peninsula
- Jun 25, 11: Alaska: Barrow Extension
- Jul 26, 11: Mato Grosso, Brazil
- Aug 05, 11: Brazil: Alta Floresta's Cristalino Jungle Lodge
- Aug 13, 11: Best of Brazil
- Aug 25, 11: Best of Brazil: Iguacu Falls Extension
- Sep 21, 11: Southeastern Brazil Part I: Iguacu Falls Pre-Trip
- Sep 24, 11: Southeastern Brazil Part I
- Oct 06, 11: Southeastern Brazil Part II
- Nov 04, 11: Highlights of Brazil's Atlantic Forest
Recent Posts
- Dec 02, 09: Highlights of Brazil's Atlantic Forest
- Nov 25, 09: Southeast Brazil Part II
- Nov 25, 09: Southeast Brazil Part I & Iguacu Falls Pre-trip
- Sep 02, 09: Best of Brazil & Iguacu Falls Extension
- Aug 28, 09: Jaguar on the Rio Cuiaba, Brazil
- Jun 30, 09: Grand Alaska: Gambell/Nome Pre-trip
- May 21, 09: Colorado Grouse II
- Mar 14, 09: Panama: El Valle's Canopy Lodge Extension
- Mar 14, 09: Panama's Canopy Tower
- Mar 14, 09: Panama: Chiriqui Highlands
Kevin Zimmer has authored three books and numerous papers dealing with field identification and bird-finding in North America. His book, Birding in the American West: A Handbook, deals with finding and identifying birds in the western United States. Living in Alaska contributed to his affection for the Far North, where he has anchored VENT's tour program since 1986. For the past 20 years he has concentrated his attention on the Neotropics, particularly on Brazil, Costa Rica, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela. He has directed VENT's Brazil program since 1991. Kevin has a PhD in biology (research emphasis in Avian Evolutionary Ecology) from New Mexico State University, and is currently a field associate of Cornell's Laboratory of Ornithology and a Research Associate of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. He has authored numerous technical papers on the taxonomy, distribution, and behavior of Neotropical birds, particularly those of the Amazon basin. In 2003 he completed (with co-author Mort Isler) the major chapter on the Thamnophilidae (antbirds) for the prestigious Handbook of Birds of the World series. In 2006, he and Curtis Marantz coauthored a six-CD compilation of Bird Voices of Alta Floresta and Southeastern Amazonian Brazil (produced by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology's Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds) that represents the most comprehensive set of commercially available bird recordings for any part of the Amazon Basin. He and Andrew Whittaker are currently at work on a comprehensive field guide to the birds of Brazil, to be published by Princeton University Press. Kevin lives in Atascadero, California with his wife Susan. Their daughter Marina completed her master's degree in psychology at Dominican University in May 2008. Recently married, she and her husband are now living in Napa, California.