From the Editor
What’s new around here
We have a few changes beginning with this issue.
Features
Our sanctuary
How homeowners in Vermont turned their 1.3-acre yard into habitat for insects, birds, and other wildlife — and how you can, too.
In search of the fire grouse
Sharp-tailed Grouse, charismatic feathered dancers that depend on wildfire, face a gauntlet of problems. Yet solutions exist, if we’re willing to try.
Sky high in the Sky Islands
An insider’s guide to fantastic birding sites in southeast Arizona.
Columns
The Wonder of Birds
Cute, endearing, and amazing
Black-capped Chickadees cache food, survive frigid northern winters, and have long memories.
Birder at Large
ID Tips
Wrentit
How the small western songbird compares to Bushtit, Bewick's Wren, and California Gnatcatcher.
ID Toolkit
Listen, then draw
Sketching what you hear may be the easiest way to learn bird songs.
Photographing Birds
Challenges and rewards of Osprey photography
The big fish hawks offer constant photo ops as they soar, dive, hunt, and tend to mates, nests, and chicks.
Also in Every Issue
Birding Briefs
Good news for the ’I’iwi and otherHawaiian forest birds, a long-lost bird rediscovered, new research about hummingbird evolution and bird vagrancy, a leap of faith for seabirds, and birds return to rodent-free islands in the Galápagos.
On the Wire
New nature documentaries from Netflix, books about migration, dinosaurs, a young birder’s life, and the birds of Oregon, and an interview with the founders of a birding app.