August 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
Our Bird Garden
By Don Stokes, Lillian Stokes
The colorful plants that attract birds to the Stokeses' garden may attract birds to yours, too.
Species Profile: Loggerhead Shrike
By Julie Craves
Why there's reason for concern as well as fascination when it comes to this masked predator.
By Alf Cryderman
Why Alberta's first Important Bird Area is still important, and why it's shrinking.
By Steve Betchkal
You can have a great trip to the tropics, and you can do it on your own.
Hotspots Near You
By Jim Williams, Richard Gregson, Jim McCormac, Je Anne Strott-Branca
Easy-to-get-to, excellent birding destinations near Minneapolis, Montréal, Cleveland, and Las Vegas.
Species Profile: Clearing the way for Golden-wings
By Connie Toops
How Breeding Bird Survey results and a line from an old song moved me to take a chainsaw to our North Carolina property
Columns
From the Editor
By Chuck Hagner
Birding Briefs
A new hummingbird discovered, Alaskan oil and shorebirds, and a gallery of rare bird sightings.
Birder at Large
ID Tips
Amazing Birds
On the Move
Bookshelf
Five books that will make you a better birdwatcher, including the new Peterson guide to gulls of the Americas
By Alvaro Jaramillo
In Sight
From Our Readers
Resources
Marketplace
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Ad Index
Index of advertisers in the August 2007 issue
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