Contributing Editor David Sibley (right), author of the groundbreaking Sibley Guide to Birds , has been busy lately. Last fall, he published his Sibley Guide to Trees , which explains what to look for to identify 668 native and commonly cultivated trees...
I'm happy to announce that our April 2010 issue -- full of places to go birding this spring, a guide to photography blinds, a list of citizen-science projects that help birds and need volunteers, ID tips from David Allen Sibley and Kenn Kaufman, lots...
In September 2006, Craig Thompson, chair of the International Committee of the Wisconsin Bird Conservation Initiative and a regional land program supervisor for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, flew to Ecuador with 11 other birders on a...
Jeannette Fackler of Garrettsville, Ohio, pictured at right, is the winner of our third Readers' Favorites Survey . Congratulations, Jeannette! She was one of more than 2,000 people who answered our survey about birdwatchers' favorite places to...
According to data I downloaded on eBird today, birdwatchers reported Loggerhead Shrikes from Florida to California and as far north as Idaho and Maryland this winter. Counts peaked at more than 2,200 individuals during the week of January 1. In recent...
At the risk of giving credibility to a possible hoax, here's what we know about the latest report of an Ivory-billed Woodpecker sighting. If Daniel Rainsong has photos of a living Ivory-billed Woodpecker, as this press release claims , he has not...
In our June 2008 issue, Jeffrey Wells, senior scientist for the Boreal Songbird Initiative , visiting fellow at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology , and author of Birder's Conservation Handbook: 100 North American Birds at Risk , wrote an article about...
Our February 2010 issue, the first of the new year, is now on newsstands. I think you'll like it. Here are six solid reasons why: David Allen Sibley tells how head patterns match up with five feather groups on common backyard birds -- Black-capped...
Here's a photo that grabbed our attention. An American Coot attacks a young chick and prepares to kill it. Bruce Lyon , professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California Santa Cruz, shot the photo during the course of a...
Contributions from two organizations have tripled the amount of a reward offered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who shot and killed a Whooping Crane near Cayuga, Indiana...
We have our second winner in our Readers' Favorites Survey ! In our December 2009 issue, we asked you to tell us your favorite places in the United States and Canada to see warblers, and as you did when we requested locations to watch eagles , you...
For the cover of our December 2009 issue, we knew we wanted a shot of a winter finch -- one of a handful of hardy northern songbirds that wander unpredictably each year -- but we didn't know which one. We would have been happy with a Pine Grosbeak...
After all the bad news about Whooping Cranes and their human caretakers — the shooting death of an adult female , the vandalism at the Operation Migration hangar , and the recent crash-landing of the top-cover Cessna in a farm field in southern Illinois...
Matt, Julie, and I got some very good news this week: BirdersWorld.com received a 2009 silver Eddie Award for excellence in online editorial from Folio magazine. The Eddie and Ozzie Awards, conducted annually, are the largest awards competition in magazine...
A seven-year-old Whooping Crane — the only successful breeding female from the eastern migratory population — was shot and killed in western Indiana, near the town of Cayuga in central Vermillion County, officials with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...
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