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Mailbox, September 2024

Mailbox, September 2024

Learn the population of the eastern migratory flock of Whooping Cranes, and more!

Favorite Focus, September 2024

Favorite Focus, September 2024

View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Fall foliage at Logan Canyon, Utah. Photo © Loren Auker. Red maple leaves. Photo © Laura Leid. Ruby-throated Hummingbird. Photo © Joshua...

Covers, August 2024

Covers, August 2024

View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Great Horned Owl. Photo © David Sheldon Wright. Yellow Warbler. Photo © Robert Frazer.

Learning Together

Learning Together

View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Sharing Birding Contest First Place Winner Finsch's Wheatear. Photo © Shutterstock.com. I stared at the birding contest announcement. Ideas began to roll...

Our Crane Creek Birding Expedition

Our Crane Creek Birding Expedition

View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Sharing Birding Contest Second Place Winner Our big white van turned into a long gravel lane with a sign ushering us to Crane Creek in Ohio. My brothers...

You Can Draw an American Redstart

You Can Draw an American Redstart

View the full issue in the Magazine Archive This lively little warbler often catches insects on the wing like flycatchers. But it also zips around bushes, leaves; here, there, tumbling around twigs...

Excerpts from the Sharing Birding Contest

Excerpts from the Sharing Birding Contest

View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Editor’s note:We gathered up your story submissions, all one hundred or so, and headed to the Shenandoah National Park (two different days). Bethany read...

Math Is 4 the Birds

Math Is 4 the Birds

View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Sharing Birding Contest Third Place Winner My ten-year-old brother and I had an agreement. He would finish his math before a certain time five school days...