Records of Peter Kaestner on Ancestry

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Peter Kaestner and the Kaestner Family History

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Peter Kaestner

Peter Graham Kaestner (b. 1953 Baltimore, Maryland) is a retired American diplomat and amateur ornithologist who most recently served as the chief of the Consular Section at the U.S. Consulate General in Frankfurt, Germany. From May 2013 to 2014 he was the Senior Civilian Representative in Northern Afghanistan, based at Camp Marmal, Mazar-e Sharif. From 2009 to late 2012 he was a senior inspector in the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. State Department. From 2006 to 2009 he was the Minister Counselor for Consular Affairs of the American Embassy in New Delhi, India. As Minister Counselor, he oversaw consular operations in New Delhi and the U.S. Consulates Generals in Mumbai (Bombay), Chennai (Madras), Hyderabad, and Kolkata (Calcutta). He retired from the Foreign Service in August 2016.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1953 to Benjamin Henry Kaestner, Jr. and Alice (Reed) Kaestner, he is the middle child of 10 siblings and step-siblings. After spending two years in the Peace Corps in Zaire, Kaestner entered the Foreign Service in 1980, and has been assigned in the past to India, Egypt, Brazil, Guatemala, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Colombia, Malaysia, and Namibia. In 1990 he had his first child with his wife Kimberly Vreeland Kaestner, Katherine Kaestner. In 1991 the couple had a second child, Laurel Kaestner.

An avid birder, he has taken advantage of his position as an international diplomat to follow his hobby more avidly than is normally possible. By 1986, he had become the first birder to see a representative of each bird family in the world, though the list of bird families recognized by science has changed considerably since then. (He has stayed current, and has seen an example of all 239 living families of birds.)

In 1989, while on a birding expedition near Bogota, Colombia, where he was a U.S. consular officer, he discovered a species new to science, the Cundinamarca Antpitta (Grallaria kaestneri), which was subsequently named after him. (See Formicariidae.) With a life list of 9,290 (IOC 9.1 1) / 9,200 birds (using ebird.org where he is the world number 1 in terms of species seen), Kaestner remains one of the most prolific birders in the world, surpassed only by three others (per surfbirds.com as of 18 May, 2021), such as Claes-Göran Cederlund and the late Jon Hornbuckle.

Source: Peter Kaestner, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Kaestner

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