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From: gmr044@leah.Albany.Edu (Gregg Recer)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Birding Magazines
Keywords: Birder's World, The Living Bird Quarterly
Message-ID: <2359@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 5 Jan 90 14:00:19 GMT
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Just another opinion on birding periodicals:  I've been a real fan of
_Birder's World_ for over a year now.  Their photography is great and
I particularly like their regular "birding hot-spots" pieces (my wife,
however, just looks at me and frowns because she knows that's another
place we'll _have_ to go see at our earliest opportunity 8*] ).
Another good mag. that we've just started to receive is _The Living
Bird Quarterly_ which is published by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Subscription to this magazine is included when one becomes a member of
the Lab.  We've only received one issue but I'm suitably impressed by
it.  It has many of the same attributes as _Birder's World_; primarily, 
well written articles and lots of good pictures reproduced on
high-quality stock.  From this first issue, the focus of the articles
seems to lean a bit more towards bird ecology and conservation and
less towards strictly finding birds and ID'ing them.  It's a nice
complement to _Birder's World_.


Gregg



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