BWD Magazine – Page 63

Birding in North Carolina

Winter Waterfowling on North Carolina’s Coastal Plain When autumn slowly turns into winter, a huge number of waterfowl head south […]

My bucket list is full of places my husband, Mike, and I want to visit. We know we’ll never complete

Bird Watching in the Amazing Amazon Basin and Grand Galapagos Islands My bucket list is full of places my husband,

Argentina Travel Links In episode #46 of This Birding Life, Bird Watcher’s Digest editor Bill Thompson, III, interviews birders who

There is a place in America virtually untouched by the hand of man. It is Nebraska’s last unexplored frontier; a

Lesser prairie-chickens are grouselike birds about the size of a small domestic chicken. They are mostly brown with horizontal barring

A tall, strong-legged bird, the feathers of the wild turkey are iridescent with dark bronze, shot with hints of copper

It is separated from the similar Gambel’s quail by its speckled belly. The female is duller and has a smaller

From a distance the northern shoveler looks like a mallard with a big nose. It’s this bird’s large, shovel-like bill

Look for The male wood duck takes its colorful plumage to an extreme. In breeding plumage, it has a green

Its bill is three-toned: The tip is black, followed by a white band, then much gray, then a white border

In terms of biodiversity, no other wilderness area can compete with the Amazonian Rainforest. Amazonia is the vast region of