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About Bird Watcher's Digest

Bird Watcher's Digest is packed with great content, including tips and advice from experts such as editor Bill Thompson, III, Kenn Kaufman, Kevin Cook, Julie Zickefoose, and many others! Captivating photographs and art accompany articles to help with bird identification and add to your enjoyment. Click on the magazine cover to preview our latest issue! Note that you must have Flash installed to view the preview.

  • An in-depth profile of a North American species
  • Great tips on solving confusing identification challenges
  • Candid and insightful columns from professional birders and naturalists
  • Expert advice on attracting more birds to your backyard
  • Travel accounts and secrets of birding hotspots in North America and beyond
  • Helpful answers to readers' bird-watching and backyard questions
  • Bird behavior, feeding, nesting, optics, photography, and much more!


About Backyard Bird Newsletter

From the editors of Bird Watcher's Digest, each issue of The Backyard Birds Newsletter is filled with tips, information, and secrets to enhance your backyard bird watching. BBN is published in alternative months to Bird Watcher's Digest, and features BWD's favorite experts, including editor Bill Thompson, III, Lynn Hassler, Diane Porter, Kevin Cook, and Dr. David Bird!

  • An in-depth profile of a North American species
  • Original articles by trusted bird-watching experts
  • Great tips to help you identify backyard birds
  • Secrets to attract birds to your backyard and garden
  • Answers to readers' backyard questions
  • Clues to bird behavior
  • And much more!