One of the great privileges of my position as advertising sales director is traveling to events to represent Bird Watcher’s Digest. Not only do I get to reconnect with friends and meet industry partners, I’m also able to meet our wonderful subscribers and longtime fans of the magazine. I will never tire of hearing folks […]
2021 Birding Festival Circuit Roundup Read More »
I love birds, and I also love the NBA. Even better, I love when the NBA and birding give me an excuse to write a blog post. What does the NBA have to do with birding? a person might wonder. (Well, besides the bird mascots—and I forgive any birder who, when they hear Toronto Raptors, envisions
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Let’s be real: There’s no substitute for the thrill of being out in the field to witness neotropical migrants and the requisite sensory overload. Just recently I’ve enjoyed the early offerings my local Columbus, Ohio, ravine provides come late March: eastern phoebes, brown creepers, chipping sparrows, to name a few. Now that I work
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This spring has been rife with reports from backyard birders spotting finches and other feeder birds suffering from red, swollen eyes—the telltale sign of avian conjunctivitis. Bird Watcher’s Digest columnist and wildlife rehabilitator Julie Zickefoose has been treating birds with mycoplasma for many years, and she reports that this is the worst spring she’s ever
Goldfinch Hospital: The 2021 Mycoplasma Outbreak Read More »
