Bruce’s BirdTography: Photographing Birds in Winter
With a workweek behind me, I was excited to spend a Saturday with the birds and my camera! It was […]
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Woodpeckers: The Vertical Birds
Woodpeckers are vertical birds. With their dense, powerful bodies and short legs, their strong grappling toes and heavy bills, woodpeckers
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Top Four Foods to Attract and Feed Woodpeckers
Suet Suet is number one on most woodpeckers’ list of preferred foods offered by humans. Suet is dense, hard, white
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A Tale of Two CBCs
Audubon’s long-standing tradition of Christmas Bird Counts are conducted each year between December 14 and January 5, and this season
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Pariah Birds
Working from home, I am grateful that my desk faces a window. I can see the sweet gum tree across
Successful Winter (and Year-round) Backyard Bird Feeding
I’ve always been fascinated by birds, and my efforts to feed them is a win-win: They get to eat, and
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Understanding “Owl Hours of Operation”
We birders have long appreciated and understood the benefits of communing with nature for our bodies and our minds—not to
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My Catio: Happy Cats and Safe Birds
If curiosity will kill any of our five cats, it will be Jack. He was a roadside stray kitten when
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Global Bird Weekend Results!
In case you missed it, last weekend, October 17–18, was the first Global Bird Weekend, “a new venture that aims
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Bruce’s Birdtography: Photographing Fall Warblers
I have always considered spring warbler migration the most challenging form of bird photography. And some would say that Magee
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Introducing the Nov./Dec. 2020 Issue and Cover Artist Christina Baal
The latest issue of Bird Watcher’s Digest will be hitting mailboxes in the next week or so, and our subscribers
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Aloha! Get Ready for the Virtual Hawai’i Island Festival of Birds
We here at BWD have been racking up some serious miles attending birding festivals lately: In August we went to
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