About Special Features

Special Online Features

New on our website, our Special Features section highlights exclusive content from leaders in the birding industry. Check out the galleries, blogs, podcasts, journals, and more!

Bill of the Birds

Bill Thompson, III's lighthearted and thought-provoking blog, Bill of the Birds, attracts nearly 1,000 daily readers around the globe. Follow the editor of Bird Watcher’s Digest as he covers the birding world from his backyard to Brazil and back again!
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Birding to the EDG/Nikon

Mike Freiberg, the Birding Market Specialist for Nikon Sport Optics, travels to festivals and birding expeditions around the globe. He documents his fascinating journey in Birding to the EDG, a bird identification journal mastered by members of the Nikon Birding ProStaff.
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Clay's Digiscoping 1000/Swarovski

Clay's Digiscoping 1000 documents Clay Taylor's quest to identifiably digiscope 1000 species – things that fly, walk, hop, crawl, or wriggle. All photos in the CD1000 photo blog were taken in the course of his travels as Swarovski Optik's Naturalist Market Manager and Mad Birder.
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Optics E-book Download/Eagle Optics

Looking for your next pair of binoculars? Confused about the options? Use this mid-priced binocular review to guide your next purchase.
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This Birding Life Podcast/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

This Birding Life is a podcast sponsored by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and hosted by Bill Thompson, III. The topics covered by This Birding Life range far and wide – from the backyard to the tropics, from bird feeding to bird chasing, from authors reading from their books to birders talking about their "spark" bird. This Birding Life is guaranteed to make you think, laugh, and want to spend more time out there with the birds.
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The Leica Birding Blog

Leica Sport Optics Product Specialist Jeff Bouton travels to birding, nature, and outdoor events all across North America. In the Leica Birding Blog, he shares outstanding bird images, fascinating stories, and professional digiscoping tips with our online visitors.
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The Wingscapes Gallery

Bird Watcher's Digest is proud to introduce the Wingscapes Gallery! This feature on our web site is completely dedicated to sharing images (and soon, video!) taken with a Wingscapes BirdCam. We invite you to join us here and to share your images with your fellow Wingscapes users. Click to view the gallery or upload your own BirdCam images!
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