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August 2019

The August issue of WBB is destined to be a keepsake! Co-founder of Bird Watcher’s Digest, the company that publishes this magazine, Elsa Thompson passed away unexpectedly on May 25, 2019. The WBB staff honors its matriarch in this issue. The aptly named gray catbird is a regular summer visitor to many backyards in the eastern two-thirds of the United States and southern Canada—though many a birder has been fooled into looking for a feline after hearing a catbird’s soft mew. Birdsquatch, our hairiest columnist, answers reader questions about how to attract more hummingbirds and how to thwart an aggressive hummingbird bully. Find all this and more in the August 2019 issue!
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Species Profile: Gray Catbird: Some Bird Names Are Just Perfect by Eirik A.T. Blom
Slipping Away by Diane Porter
Watcher at the Window: Late Summer Brings Many Bird-Watching Delights by Julie Zickefoose
Robin and Cardinal Caught Co-nesting by Karl and Steve Maslowski
My Backyard: Window TV Features Bird Family Dramas by Barb Gorges
Ask Birdsquatch
Short Stories from Al by Al Batt
Life in Death by Diane Porter

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