Birding Magazine

Birding, the American Birding Association's flagship magazine, has been in circulation for 49 years and is published every two months. It has transformed from a simple 8-page mimeographed newsletter into a vibrant, full-color magazine that has received multiple awards for its quality.

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09-16: Birds, Wildfires, and Smoke with Olivia Sanderfoot

1 week ago | aba.org | Nate Swick

A warmer and drier world means, unfortunately, a world in which wildfire becomes a greater risk. We know, all too well, the risk these fires pose to wild places, but there is surprisingly little we know about the risk to wildlife. That is the work of Dr. Olivia Sanderfoot, a researcher at UCLA looking at the impacts of wildfire smoke on wild birds and trying to answer a few of those increasingly relevant questions. Also, Nate is out of town and hoping to see Mississippi Kites.
Rare Bird Alert: April 11, 2025

1 week ago | aba.org | Nate Swick

Texas continues to host a truly impressive selection of ABA Area rarities into this week, with Mottled Owl (ABA Code 5) and Brown Jay (4) still being seen in the Valley, and Amur Stonechat (5), Cattle Tyrant (5), and Yellow-headed Caracara (5) up the coast.
09-15: Looking Up with Courtney Ellis

2 weeks ago | aba.org | Nate Swick

A deeply felt love of birds is something that can wind its way into all aspects of our lives. It is a journey that writer and pastor Courtney Ellis weaves into her most recent book, Looking Up: A Birder’s Guide to Hope Through Grief, published last year and now available in audiobook. She is also the host of The Thing with Feathers podcast, available in a lot of the same places you can find this one.
09-14: Weird Winged Warblers with Nick Block & Matt Hale

3 weeks ago | aba.org | Nate Swick

Migrating warblers are heading back to our backyards and patches, and included among that wonderful diversity come the weirdo “winged” warblers, Golden and Blue, whose intermixed genetics have long been fascinating and confusing.
Rare Bird Alert: March 28, 2025

3 weeks ago | aba.org | Nate Swick

Continuing rarities in the ABA Area include the long-staying Gray Gull (ABA Code 5), an ABA 1st, turning up again in Alabama. Brown Jay (4) continues in the Lower Valley of Texas, while Yellow-headed Caracara (5) and Asian Stonechat (5) continue up the coast. The Eurasian Sparrowhawk (5) on Adak, Alaska, was seen again this week, and the Yellow Grosbeak (4) in Arkansas also continues.
An Artist’s Approach to Wildlife

3 weeks ago | aba.org | Rebecca Minardi

A review by Aisha WhiteDrawing Nature: The Creative Process of an Artist, Illustrator, and Naturalist, by Linda Miller FeltnerPrinceton University Press, 2024272 pages, hardcoverABA Sales–Buteo Books 15433It’s all in the details. Drawing Nature: The Creative Process of an Artist, Illustrator, and Naturalist, by Linda Miller Feltner, is an illustrated history of the author and artist’s career and creative work focused on all living things, large and small.
09-13: This Month in Birding - March 2025

4 weeks ago | aba.org | Nate Swick

March 2025 brings another This Month in Birding featuring a panel of birding friends here to talk about the month’s new bird news and get ready for spring. This time around we welcome Jennie Duberstein, Bird Joy Pod‘s Jason Hall, and Nicole Jackson to talk plastics in seabirds, new eyes on old maps, and the best bird to party with.
Fantastic Finches

1 month ago | aba.org | Rebecca Minardi

A review by Owen RobertsonThe Stokes Guide to Finches of the United States and Canada, by Lillian Stokes and Matthew A. YoungLittle, Brown and Company, 2024352 pages, paperbackABA Sales–Buteo Books 15411I’m going to make a potentially provocative statement here: No bird family embodies diversity better than finches. Hear me out.
09-12: The 2025 State of the Birds

1 month ago | aba.org | Nate Swick

The State of the Birds is a report put out by a veritable who’s who of bird-related non-profit organizations, with the goal of sharing the current state, both positive and negative, of bird populations and bird conservation intiatives in the United States. The 2025 report builds on on the last incationation of the SOTB, but unfortunately finds many of the same issues vexing birds and bird conservation.
Bird Nests Across the World

1 month ago | aba.org | Rebecca Minardi

Identifying birds can challenge any level of birder—especially those musically challenged, like myself, who struggle to name common species by their calls and chip notes. Toss in nonbreeding plumages and tricky molts, and a confident ID can stump even the most advanced birders.