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Binding: Magazine
First Issue Lead Time: 6-10
Format: Magazine Subscription
Issues Per Year: 6
Label: BowTie Inc.
Languages: Array
Magazine Type: Consumer magazine
Manufacturer: BowTie Inc.
Number Of Issues: 6
Publisher: BowTie Inc.
Studio: BowTie Inc.
Subscription Length: 365

Fascinating information about North American birds and birding from your own backyard to touring hotspots in the field. In addition to species profiles, award-winning photos, birders’ guides, and expert photography tips, you get facts on landscaping and feeders that attract specific birds and gear that makes touring easier and more fun.

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 Rating:

Summary: Excellant for Beginners
Comment: I have only received one issue of Wildbird but am happy that I have subscribed. As a beginning birder, I need all the help that I can get and I am unwilling purchase an experienced birder (do they even sell those at Amazon?).

This magazine is well laid out and provides a plethora of fun, and interesting, facts about the birds between its covers. I look forward to the next issue.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Great Mag
Comment: Really enjoyed this mag---and it arrived just in time for Christmas. My sister, Louisa really loves it!! I am so happy-she's really gotten into birdwatching. I've seen her read and re-read the mag. Can hardly wait for the next one. Kate

Customer Rating:

Summary: Good Magazine for Beginner or Pro
Comment: 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.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Birds I View
Comment: This is a great magazine...wonderful photos and articles, plus info on great places to go birding. I love it!

Customer Rating:

Summary: Good magazine about wild birds......
Comment: 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.