What are the best birding magazines?
Birders are fortunate in having several very attractive and informative magazines devoted to their hobby. No matter what your level of expertise, there’s one for you. Most local bookstores do not carry them; in the course of an August 2000 survey, I found Birder’s World at Borders, Goering’s, Barnes & Noble, and Books-A-Million, BirdWatcher’s Digest only at Books-A-Million (in the Art and Travel section!), and WildBird only at the downtown library (and it was an old issue). However, excellent previews are available on the Internet, at the sites given below. Birdwatcher’s Digest Level: beginner to intermediate. About the size of Reader’s Digest but half as thick. Emphasis on bird behavior, attracting birds to the backyard, and the pleasures and surprises of observing and feeding birds, written at the layman’s level. More text than WildBird or Birder’s World. Six issues per year for $18.95. WildBird Level: beginner to intermediate. Glossy and photo-based, with a slight emphasis on colorf
