Complex sentence: Born in South Bend, Indiana, Kaufman started birding from the age of six, and by sixteen, inspired by birding pioneers such as Roger Tory Peterson, he dropped out of high school and began hitchhiking around North America in pursuit of birds.
Split into simpler sentences: Born in South Bend, Indiana, Kaufman started birding from the age of six. At age sixteen, inspired by birding pioneers such as Roger Tory Peterson, he dropped out of high school and began hitchhiking around North America in pursuit of birds.