Product Description

Educates and entertains readers with useful details about North American birds and birding - in reader's backyards and in the entire Western Hemisphere. The magazine celebrates the challenges and rewards enjoyed by backyard birders and listers, beginners and experts.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #207 in Magazine Subscriptions
• Formats: Magazine Subscription, Print

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Who Reads WildBird?
WildBird educates and entertains readers with useful details about North American birds and birding – in readers’ back yards and in the entire Western Hemisphere. WildBird encourages readers to share their appreciation for birds and to consider beginner’s education and habitat conservation as means of ensuring avian species’ survival.

WildBird’s editorial celebrates not only a love of birding but also an appreciation for nature and conservation. WildBird is committed to promoting conservation and education. Since 1993, WildBird-sponsored teams have won over $100,000 on behalf of conservation projects, birding societies and wildlife sanctuaries.

What You Can Expect in Each Issue:

• Gear, Gadgets, & Goods: Presenting the latest tools for the birdwatching aficionado, and featuring optics, photo equipment, electronics and backyard supplies.
• Birder's Backyard: Backyard birding articles feature tips for attracting birds to backyard habitats.
• Book Nook: Reviews of recently published birding books.
• Conservation Corner: Educational articles on protecting birding habitats.
• Ornithology 101
• Features: Covering a broad range of topics which will entice both backyard birders and listers, beginners and experts, with topics which have recently included "A Different Set of Eyes- Enjoy backyard birding with new observation tips," "The ABCs of Helping Birds," and "My Favorite Birding Spot of All Time."

Past Issues:

Magazine Layout:
The editors have achieved a visually appealing layout that brings to life the wild birds within the pages of WildBird. Engaging articles illustrated with vivid photographs capture readers' attention from cover to cover.

Advertising:
Advertisers are important to the readership of this magazine, since you’ll likely want to easily find the latest birdwatching tools, photo equipment, electronics and backyard supplies that the editors are writing about. Included in each issues is an Advertiser’s Index, featuring the page number of the advertiser. The majority of advertising is specific to birding. They succeed in providing relevant advertising for anyone who loves birding.

Customer Reviews

Good magazine about wild birds......
I don't know what distinguishes WILDBIRD from other periodicals about the subject, perhaps it is a `bird-of-the-month' approach, but I do find the articles and photographs, columns and "departments" interesting and informative. For example, the May/June issue of WB is promoted as the `15th Annual Hummingbird Issue' and includes a somewhat lengthy essay, "Beginner's Guide to Hummingbird ID by Sherri Williamson, co-founder of the SE Arizona Bird Observatory. Another article is entitled, "Hummingbird Helpers: How you can contribute to the study and aid of Hummingbirds". The latter is by Wildbird Advisory Board member Peter Strangel who coordinates bird conservation efforts for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation in Atlanta, and who writes a recurring column for WB. A Hummingbird photo-essay by Ralph Paonessa is also included, as well as articles on backyard birds and birds in South America about - you guessed it - Hummingbirds.

WB displays a keen interest in photography, sponsoring an annual photography contest and includes regular columns on conservation, as well as an `Ornithology 101', and other recurring useful topics.

Wildbird
I liked the magazine because it stayed with the articles on the cover and more on different birds, from the habits, to locating birds, what they eat, nesting patterns, ect. My favorite part of the magazine was the Bird Jokes, Contests. Wonderful magazine with pictures for kids and adults, a treasure find for any bird lover.

Good Magazine for Beginner or Pro
I just received my first magazine and I like it very much. Great pictures which are a big help for me to match with the birds I see in my backyard. I watch birds for the fun and pleasure it gives me, but I like to know a little about what I am seeing and this magazine will be a big help to me.