A Life Bird in Every State

Jennifer Rycenga

A Life Bird in Every State recounts one birder’s journey across the United States to ensure that every one of the fifty states would have a distinct memory and honor in her birding annals. Part birding narrative, part travelogue, and part reflection on America, this talk recounts the adventures, successes, occasional (temporary) failures of this quixotic quest.

Jennifer Rycenga is the Past President of Sequoia Audubon Society in San Mateo county, and an avid proponent of iNaturalist, eBird, and community science. Recently retired and relocated to Rochester New York, she is an academic who writes on American abolitionism and women’s history.