Kim Eckert
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- Aug 03, 09: Newfoundland & Nova Scotia
- Jul 11, 09: Minnesota & North Dakota
- Apr 28, 09: Nebraska: Platte River and Sandhill Cranes
- Mar 18, 09: Winter Rio Grande Valley
- Feb 10, 09: Northern Minnesota Winter Weekend
- Jan 14, 09: New Year in South Texas
- Aug 21, 08: Summer Arizona
- Jul 16, 08: Newfoundland & Nova Scotia
- Jun 04, 08: Point Pelee, Crane Creek and the Kirtland's Warbler
- Apr 22, 08: King Ranch & Whooping Cranes
Kim Eckert, with over 40 years of birding experience throughout the U.S. and Canada, has now been guiding birders or teaching bird identification classes for more than 25 of those years. Since the 1980s, he has annually led VENT tours to Newfoundland, Churchill, various locations in the Great Lakes and Great Plains, and to Texas—a favorite and frequent winter destination. He has authored four editions of A Birder’s Guide to Minnesota, and has written numerous articles, notes, and seasonal reports for the Minnesota Ornithologists’ Union journal, The Loon, and other publications such as Birding and North American Birds. Kim also operates the Minnesota Birding Weekends program of birding tours, has been a member for three decades of Minnesota’s Records Committee, and for 20 years served as Naturalist at Hawk Ridge Nature Reserve in Duluth. A Minnesota resident since the 1960s, he has resided in Duluth since 1977—winters included.