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Today I have the privilege of introducing you to the work of acclaimed photographer Layne Kennedy . He is our "Featured Photographer" for June. Layne takes photos of landscapes, mammals, flowers, thunderstorms, the stars, sled dogs , birds, the people of Burning Man -- you name it. He also enjoys making...

If you've whiled a few minutes (or hours) enjoying the thousands of photos in our galleries, you've surely seen the work of MiaM , one of our most prolific and talented contributors. Since joining the website in November 2009, she has posted more than 680 photos! Today, I'm happy to introduce...

"How does he do that?" "Wow!" "That's a keeper." — just a few of the things Chuck and I have said over the years about photos Brian E. Small has sent us for the magazine. Brian, of course, contributes all of the photos for "ID Tips" by Kenn Kaufman...

One of the best things about birdwatching is getting to visit beautiful places. The amazing scenes below are examples. Visitors to our website submitted them to our People and Places gallery . We hope you enjoy them! Submit your photos to our galleries. Read about the many other collections of...

Our December 2011 issue, on newsstands now, has plenty of fascinating, provocative material that's worthy of a letter to the editor. D. Dekker's profile of the majestic Gyrfalcon ( Ultimate Falcon , page 18), for example, includes lists of Christmas Bird Count circles where the falcon has been...

Attention, photographers! We've created a new gallery for you. We call it People and Places . It's a photo gallery of the places where you like to go birdwatching and the people you see birding at them. Go to People and Places . Places: We're envisioning pictures of places where birders...

Beautiful but so difficult to see well — that’s what you could say about many of the mobile and wary birds that share our planet. And you could say the same about the well-hidden, frequently camouflaged nests in which birds lay and protect their eggs. How often we’ve wished for a way...

Last week, I noted that the Golden-winged Warbler is being considered for protection under the Endangered Species Act . Today, I'm happy to share extraordinary photos from our friend Lloyd Spitalnik that illustrate one of the threats to Golden-wings: competition and hybridization with Blue-winged...

UPDATE, MAY 16: Voting has now ended. Bryan Hix's photo of a Cooper's Hawk chasing a rabbit received the most votes and is our grand-prize winner . Thanks to everyone who voted and thanks especially to the many, many photographers who submitted images throughout the year! --Matt Mendenhall ...

Every new book by Kenn Kaufman -- author of Kingbird Highway and Lives of North American Birds , originator of the Kaufman Field Guide series , and contributor of "ID Tips," our regular column on bird ID -- is worth noting. But a new edition of A Field Guide to Advanced Birding , his ground...

The colorful male Northern Parula on the cover of our April 2011 issue (right) came to us from long-time contributing photographer Brian E. Small . He lives in Los Angeles, far from the eastern warbler's normal range. So taking this picture required a special effort in early June 2006. “I was...

The Burrowing Owl photo on the cover of our February 2011 issue (right) came to us from Neil Losin . Neil is a biologist, photographer, and filmmaker who lives in Los Angeles. He has written a few articles for us, and he was the grand-prize winner of our 2006 Photo of the Week Contest . He is working...

So many field guides. So many revolutions. The first, of course, was led by painter Roger Tory Peterson (1934), who demonstrated that a shotgun was no longer required to identify birds. The second came from artist David Sibley (2000), who not only showed flying birds and plumages of nonbreeding adults...

What better bird to put on the cover of our April 2011 issue than Brian E. Small's Northern Parula? Bright, perky, and colorful, it's one of our favorites no matter the season, but it's a sight for sore eyes after this past winter, which turned out to be especially gray and snowy here in...

Greetings from Titusville, Florida! The 14th annual Space Coast Birding & Wildlife Festival got off to a fun start yesterday, and I'm happy to be here -- and not just because it's snowy and cold back home in Milwaukee and sunny and mild here. No, there are many other reasons to be happy to...

Come meet me in Florida in January at the 14th annual Space Coast Birding & Wildlife Festival ! As I mentioned last week , I'll be there, and I look forward to seeing you. I'll help lead two field trips (to the Marl Bed Flats and Lake Jesup Conservation Area on Jan. 26 and a waterfowl-ID...

Don and Lillian Stokes have published a new field guide to the birds of North America (Little, Brown, $24.99). The guide bundles descriptions and photographs of 854 species into a single, squat 816-page volume, and it comes with a CD containing songs of 150 common species. We liked the Stokeses'...

A Laughing Gull flies along the waterfront in Mobile, Alabama, in late July. Photo by Carrol Henderson We've all seen the horrific photos of birds and other wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico covered in oil, but new photos from our longtime friend and contributor Carrol Henderson suggest a more insidious...

It’s not a simple task to snap a photo of a Baltimore Oriole perched perfectly among hawthorn blossoms. To make the picture that appears on our August issue cover (right), Bill Leaman set out orange halves at Cedar Point National Wildlife Refuge in northern Ohio in early May 2008. If you’ve ever birded...

More Kirtland's Warblers arrived last week at the site in Adams County, Wisconsin, where they nested last year and the year before, bringing this year’s total to 14 -- 8 males, 6 females. Joel A. Trick of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and Kim Grveles of the Wisconsin Department of Natural...

Yesterday we created a new photo gallery, and today you can be one of the first to submit images to it! We call it Atypical Birds . Atypical Birds is where you can share and discuss your photographs of birds with structural malformations, such as beak deformities, and birds with plumage abnormalities...

Frequent contributing author and photographer Jim Burns photographed the Rufous Hummingbird that appears on the cover of our April issue, on newsstands now. Here's how he got the shot. -- M.M. Every summer during southbound hummingbird migration, I try to get up to the Becker Lake Wildlife Area in...

Veteran bird photographer Steve Maslowski of Maslowski Wildlife Productions photographed the beautiful Varied Thrush that appears on the cover of our February 2009 issue . He shot the photo in 1999 during a trip to the west coast. Here is what he told me about how he took it. -- M.M. The Varied Thrush...