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Because we're bird watchers just like you, our mission is to enhance your bird-watching enjoyment. Whether you're a backyard bird watcher or an avid field birder, Bird Watcher's Digest has created a resource that meets your bird-watching needs. Bird watching is exciting, and your birding resources should be exciting, too.

Backyard Booklets: A 14-booklet series!

What do you get when you cross 30 years of backyard bird expertise with millions of knowledge-hungry backyard bird watchers? The Backyard Booklet Series from Bird Watcher's Digest! With more than 4 million copies sold, this 14-booklet series covers nearly every backyard topic from bird feeding, housing, gardening, and identification to squirrels, butterflies, and bats. Each booklet is full-color, 32 pages long, and bursting with fascinating and useful information. See all booklet titles >>



Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges         
By Bill Thompson, III, and the editors of Bird Watcher's Digest. Illustrated by Julie Zickefoose

(2005, Houghton Mifflin Co.)

From Houghton Mifflin, legendary publisher of the Peterson Field Guides series that has defined modern bird watching, comes an identification book for beginning and intermediate bird watchers. Identify Yourself covers bird watching's 50 most common identification conundrums from house finch vs. purple finch to Cooper's vs. sharp-shinned. With incredible color identification illustrations painted by Julie Zickefoose and lively, insightful text by some of today's most knowledgeable bird watching experts, including Eirik A.T. Blom, Bill Thompson, III, Jeffrey Gordon, George Armistead, and Marshall Iliff. This book is guaranteed to help you become a better birder. Buy Now >>



The Original Birdhouse Book

Don McNeil's 30+ plans for bird houses, bird feeders, and bird baths are sophisticated enough to challenge the avid woodworker, but simple to follow with easy step-by-step instructions. Augmented by Julie Zickefoose's bird illustrations and updated in 2003 by BWD Editor, Bill Thompson, III, this book has sold thousands of copies since its original printing in 1981. Buy Now >>