• This Month in Birding – May 2023

    It’s the last Thursday of the month of May and that means it is time to bring on a panel of birding friends to talk about bird news and goings on on the American Birding Podcast. And it’s another excellent panel this month featuring Mollee Brown, Nicole Jackson, and Ryan Mandelbaum...

  • How to Know the Birds: No. 75, The Other Other Iowa

    On the afternoon of my last day in Iowa, my companions kidnapped me and took me to the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge east of Des Moines a little bit. We drove through cornfields to get there. When we got there, there were cornfields on one side of the road. On the other side of the road were...

  • Bird of the Year tour to Texas’ Rio Grande Valley

    November 2-6, 2023

    Join artist Liz Clayton Fuller and North American Birds and Birding editor Michael Retter for a tour to Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, celebrating our 2023 Bird of the Year—Belted Kingfisher—along with all the extraordinary bird life which makes the RGV such a desirable destination.