You gotta love Google Maps. Yesterday, I created an interactive map of all of our Hotspots Near You . It plots the locations of the 76 top-notch, easy-to-get-to birding destinations we've profiled, and it allows you to zoom in and out, scroll around...

Where do you enjoy watching Bald and Golden Eagles? At Alaska's Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve? In the Upper Mississippi Valley of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, or Illinois? Along the coast of Maine? On Cape Breton Island? At one of hundreds of other...

I'm happy to let you know that the October 2009 issue of Birder's World is now available on our website. (The issue will appear on newsstands the first day of September.) The issue contains important news about an easy way you can win a pair...

Tomorrow, we'll post an article by our friend Laura Kammermeier about why she likes birding with her iPhone. Here I've posted her sidebar about apps that are available for birders. I use many of them on my iPhone, and can vouch for their usefulness...

Location: Estabrook Park , Milwaukee Co., WI Observation date: 8/16/09, 7:40-10:15 a.m. Weather: 79°F rising to 84°F, mostly cloudy, winds S @ 8.1 mph, gusts @ 17 mph. Number of species: 27 I didn't see any birds along the Milwaukee River in Estabrook...

Three chicks from the first Piping Plover nest found in Illinois in 30 years were released Friday, Aug. 7, in northern Michigan. The Great Lakes population of the Piping Plover has been listed as endangered since 1986. The species is also listed as endangered...

Location: Estabrook Park Observation date: 8/9/09, 8:05-11:25 am Weather: 82°F rising to 88°F, clear, wind SW @ 14 mph, gusting to 21 mph Number of species: 26 A couple of birds caught my interest in the park this morning: The first was an Osprey, which...

Operation Migration's new CraneCam is quite a treat. It offers a behind-the-scenes view of Whooping Cranes at Necedah National Wildlife Refuge, home base of the eastern reintroduction project. Viewers can watch online as Operation Migration’s pilots...

I received this press release today from the American Bird Conservancy about efforts to preserve the Marvelous Spatuletail, pictured above. --M.M. A new report on one of the world’s bird biodiversity hotspots in Peru finds that most of the species...

Location: Estabrook Park , Milwaukee Co. Observation date: 8/2/09, 7:20-10:40 a.m. Weather: 58°F rising to 73°F and clear, wind W @ 5.8 mph Number of species: 34 Just how many species of cuckoo can you see in Estabrook Park? Yesterday I would have said...