June 2007

Beautiful, bi-monthly BirdWatching magazine (formerly Birder's World) appeals to every bird enthusiast — from backyard birdwatcher to serious birder. Subscribers receive helpful hints for attracting and feeding birds, handy identification tips, photography pointers, info about where to find birds, superb color photography, and much more!
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Features
Climate change and birds
By Susan Bonfield
Why birds are migrating earlier, finding less food, and failing to multiply.
A place for birds
By Carrol Henderson
Where to go in Minnesota's rich and beautiful aspen parkland for grebes, bitterns, terns, and other great birds.
Spring photos
By Tom Vezo
Stunning close-up portraits of warblers, buntings, vireos, orioles, and one spectacular Yellow-billed Cuckoo.
Purple Martin science
By James Hill III
Three fun ways you can add to what we know about a popular herald of spring
Home, home on the ranch
By Gary Lantz
Lesser Prairie-Chickens are finding new territories where cowboys once roamed
Hotspots Near You
By Deuane Hoffman, Hugh Kingery, Andy Wraithmell, Harry Fuller
Superb, easy-to-get-to birding destinations near Harrisburg, Denver, Tallahassee, and Oakland
Columns
From the Editor
Birds can be victims, and indicators, of climate change
By Chuck Hagner
Birding Briefs
Mafia cowbirds, Bald Eagles in the Chesapeake, and new research. Plus, a picture gallery of rare bird sightings.
Birder at Large
Why it's better to recognize birds than to identify them.
By Pete Dunne
Amazing Birds
Why the next singing Northern Cardinal you hear may be a female
By Eldon Greij
On the Move
How navigation errors may be helping the endangered Kirtland's Warbler
By Paul Kerlinger
ID Tips
Identify flycatchers
By Kenn Kaufman
Bookshelf
Books that will make you a better birdwatcher: Birds of the World, Voices of North American Owls, and others
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