Chuck Hagner is the director of Bird City Wisconsin, a program that recognizes municipalities in the Badger State for the conservation and education activities that they undertake to make their communities healthy for birds and people. He was the editor of BirdWatching from 2001 to 2017, and his articles have appeared in Nature Conservancy and Birding. He is also the author of two books about birds and the board chair of the Western Great Lakes Bird and Bat Observatory, Inc., located in Port Washington, Wisconsin.
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David Sibley’s regular column “ID Toolkit” is a popular part of every issue of BirdWatching. In our November-December 2016 issue, he offered tips for identifying … Read More “Photos to help you ID Purple Finch and House Finch”
Few migrants are as beloved and eagerly anticipated as Rose-breasted Grosbeak, the pretty songbird shown in the photo above and the six below. After spending … Read More “Spring gallery: Seven photos of Rose-breasted Grosbeak”
A review of Water Babies: The Hidden Lives of Baby Wetland Birds, by William Burt.
A review of the Peterson Reference Guide to Owls of North America and the Caribbean, by Scott Weidensaul.
A review of the Field Guide to the Neighborhood Birds of New York City, by Leslie Day
A review of The Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide, Second Edition, by Richard Garrigues and Robert Dean
A review of Fastest Things on Wings: Rescuing Hummingbirds in Hollywood, by Terry Masear
A review of Into the Nest: Intimate Views of the Courting, Parenting and Family Lives of Birds, by Laura Erickson and Marie Read
A review of Feral Cities: Adventures with Animals in the Urban Jungle, by Tristan Donovan
A review of the Peterson Reference Guide to Birding by Impression: A Different Approach to Knowing and Identifying Birds, by Kevin T. Karlson and Dale Rosselet
A review of Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds, by John Pickrell
Reviews of books about Mono Lake and the Everglades by photographers Marie Read and Mac Stone
A review of Ducks, Geese, and Swans of North America, Revised and Updated Edition
A review of National Geographic Complete Birds of North America, Second Edition
A review of Welcome to Subirdia by John M. Marzluff
For intimate views of puffins, shearwaters, and other birds of the sea, nothing beats a cruise on a historic schooner
Sparkling new, the Churchill Northern Studies Centre wows birders while minimizing their impact
It’s well known that Belted Kingfishers are champion diggers, famous for sending plumes of soil into the air as they excavate their nest burrows. Less … Read More “Why kingfishers sometimes turn themselves into aerial battering rams”
For 25 years, an impressive cast of heroes and geniuses have been exploring and expanding the birder’s world
Beautiful Rose-breasted Grosbeak has a bill to handle many foods and a song to delight the ears
The spectacular courtship flights of the American Woodcock are highlights of the spring season
Why a mountain on Michigan’s northernmost peninsula may be the best place in the country to watch northbound hawks in spring
Kaufman, author of several books and contributor of our regular “ID Tips” column, explains what’s new in the ground-breaking 2011 edition of his field guide
Crossley describes how to use his eastern bird guide, where the idea for it came from, and why making birding more popular is important
Located at the midpoint of a flyway and between two great refuges, Great Bend, Kansas, is the perfect place to shake a case of the winter blues
Beautiful, surprising Uganda shelters some of the most important bird areas in East Africa
Jerome A. Jackson criticizes the search for Ivory-billed Woodpecker, decries faith-based ornithology
Millions of migrating Western Sandpipers and other shorebirds make Alaska’s Copper River Delta a birding hotspot without equal
