Re: [MDOsprey] Recommendations for birding magazines
Norm Saunders (osprey@ARI.Net)
Fri, 6 Aug 1999 04:25:59 -0500
Chris Barnard asks:
> My subsription to Wild Bird is running out and I am interested in looking at
> other publications. Does anyone have a strong recommendation for a good
> birding magazine?
I suppose a membership in the American Birding Association is de rigeur
these days but, sadly, I find myself looking forward less and less to
Birding magazine. The editor's protestations notwithstanding the magazine
has clearly been dumbed down. Still, you could do worse, I suppose.
The one you really need, if you're interested in learning about bird
distributions, is Field Notes, or whatever the ABA has decided to call
it this month.
Call the ABA for more info at 1-800-634-7736 or visit their website
at www.americanbirding.org
Another journal you may wish to consider is Birders Journal, coming out of
Canada and obviously focusing on the birds of Canada but with some good
identification articles of the caliber which USED to show up in Birding. This
journal comes out 5 times a year and costs US subscribers US$34 per
year. Make your cheque (grin) payable to "Birders Journal" and send
it to: Circulation Department, 8 Midtown Drive, Suite 289, Oshawa,
Ontario Canada L1J 8L2.
Best,
Norm
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Norm Saunders
Colesville, MD
osprey@ari.net