Birding the Midwest – BWD magazine

Theodore Roosevelt National Park: North Dakota’s Hidden Gem

In September 1883, a tired and dispirited young man stepped off a westbound train into the tiny hamlet of Medora […]

Every spring, about two thousand volunteers spread out across North America to count birds for the government. The Canadian Wildlife

“Where can we find three-toed and black-backed woodpeckers?” We were at Custer State Park, South Dakota. Three-toed and black-backed woodpeckers

Prior to 2004 I’d never been to South Dakota, but that year a series of unrelated events took me to

When bird watchers die (or, as my dad would say, shoot through), they must go to North Dakota in June.

Birding South Dakota

Birding North Dakota North Dakota features more national wildlife refuges—63—than any other state! Situated in the westernmost portion of the

Just east of the Panama Canal, near the village of Gamboa, a small songbird with russet and black markings forages

Pennsylvania is a great state for bird watching. Boasting a respectable headcount of resident species, a literal menagerie of seasonal

Winter Birds of Missouri (December, January, February) What better place to start a life list, a yard list, a county

Fall Birds of Missouri (September, October, November) Autumn means there are some housekeeping duties to be done. If removable martin

Summer Birds of Missouri (June, July, August) Missouri, like many states, has considered making the mosquito the state bird. It