June 2009

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
You can find gold
By Chris Duke
Tips, strategies, and tricks for adding MacGillivray's, ­Mourning, Kentucky, and Connecticut Warblers to your life list.
Tropics close to home
The past president of the Houston Audubon Society describes a pair of hotspots located just a few hours south of Brownsville where you can find White-crowned Parrot, Black-headed Saltator, Flame-colored Tanager, and other tropical birds -- El Cielo Biosphere Reserve and Monterrey, Mexico.
Isles of terns
By Jonathon Woolf
Read what happened when our writer visited the Isles of Shoals, home of the biggest and most productive tern colony in the Gulf of Maine -- and the only place in New Hampshire, and one of only a few places in all of New England, where you can reliably see Roseate and Arctic Terns.
Hotspots Near You
Profiles of four excellent, easy-to-get-to birding destinations: John Heinz NWR at Tinicum, Philadelphia, PA; Dutch Gap Conservation Area, Chester, VA; Mount Tabor Park, Portland, OR; and Noblewood Park, Willsboro, NY.
John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
By Edie Parnum
Dutch Gap Conservation Area, Chester, Virginia
Mount Tabor Park, Portland, Oregon
By John Rakestraw
Noblewood Park, Willsboro, New York
By John Thaxton
Binocular review
By Matt Mendenhall
We asked two dozen of the best birders we know to test 11 of the best binoculars we could find during a recent birding trip in Wisconsin's North Woods. Then we asked them whether the binocs were worth the money. We'll report what they said.
Columns
From the Editor
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Birding Briefs
Winter Ivory Gull sightings, new research on songbird migration and cuckoos and gypsy moths, and photos of recent rare bird sightings.
Birder at Large
Pete Dunne marvels at the uncomfortably large number of birds he saw feeding, flying, and displaying at Orlando International Airport recently -- and how well they get along with us and our airplanes.
ID Tips
Kenn Kaufman explains what to look for to tell apart White-faced and Glossy Ibis.
Amazing Birds
Ornithologist and Founding Editor Eldon Greij describes the amazing way Killdeer keep their eggs cool and sandgrouse provide water for their chicks to drink.
By Eldon Greij
On the Move
Migration expert Paul Kerlinger explains why Bay-breasted Warbler is always one of the last spring migrants.
By Paul Kerlinger
Attracting Birds
How to attract birds in May and June.
By Anne Schmauss, Mary Schmauss, Geni Krolick
New Products
Two feeders and a fountain for your backyard, plus eight great new books.
Fieldcraft
Super reader photo posted in our online bird photography forum. Forum member Paul Kusmin describes his photo of a Puff-throated Babbler.
From Our Readers
Your Letters
Finding rails, hummingbirds, and Bristle-thighs.
Since You Asked
Julie Craves answers reader questions about where birds go during big storms, why a Hairy Woodpecker might have faded feathers, and the deadly effect on birds of a red tide in California.
Your View
Four pages of stories and photos submitted by readers, including Willets, a Gray-necked Wood-rail, and a Mountain Bluebird.
Resources
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Links to every advertiser in the June issue.
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Optics, bird seed, bird tours, lodging, and more.
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