[June 14, 2017] Which Species Will Hatch from This Egg? The beautiful squiggled egg shown above is laid by an equally beautiful bird with a pendulous nest. These birds are now raising their young across the eastern and central United States and Canada. Enjoy their rich whistled songs before the nestlings fledge and they head to the tropics for the winter. Can you guess which species this is? Check your answer and learn more. Learn to recognize the eggs and nests of many North American backyard birds with the new Nests and Eggs foldout guide from the Cornell Lab Publishing Group.

An interview with Miyoko Chu aired June 17, 2017, on Outdoors with Larry Rea, Entercom Studios, Memphis, Tennessee (http://www.lroutdoors.com/Shows6.html)

[May 22, 2017] Learn how to attract birds to your yard with tips on gardening, feeders and food, and better birdhouses with new fold-out guides from the Cornell Lab Publishing Group and Waterford Press. Keep a regional guide at your window to help with quick ID, check out the basic birding guide (Birding 101), and find out how to identify nests and eggs. Plus, an entire guide devoted to hummingbirds! A portion of the proceeds help support Cornell Lab programs.

[June 1, 2017] It's that time of year when NestWatch starts receiving hundreds of requests for nest identification as well as common questions about nest box management. We are thrilled to announce that two new guides are available to help address the information needs of our community! Check out our new Nests and Eggs guide, and the Right Bird, Right House guide, both part of an exciting new series of All About Birds Pocket Guides, available from Waterford Press and the Cornell Lab Publishing Group. These lightweight, portable guides are ideal for bird lovers, classrooms, and nature centers looking to enhance the spring nesting season experience.

[July 14, 2017] If you're in love with our continent's smallest birds, here's all you need to know about our most common 8 species of hummingbirds. These folding guides include how to quickly ID species not only by appearance but by their unique behaviors. If you'd like to see more of these jewel-like birds in your yard, we’ve also included tips about food, feeder styles, and feeder placement. Order your guide today.

[May 15, 2017] An exciting new series of All About Birds Pocket Guides is available from Waterford Press and the Cornell Lab Publishing Group. From basic birding skills to enhancing your garden for birds, these handy guides cover a wide range of topics. For a quick and easy reference to birds you can see from your window?anywhere in the country?check out the regional Feeder Birds guides (specific to seven different regions) and the Eastern/Central and Western Backyard Birds guides. Gardening for Birds, Nests and Eggs, Right Bird Right House, and Bird Feeders and Food are filled with tips for attracting birds to your yard and revealing facts about the birds you see. For an introduction to more serious bird watching, try Birding 101. Last but not least, Hummingbirds of North America is an entire guide devoted to everyone?s favorite jewel-like bird. This special guide includes identification keys, unique behaviors, and tips about feeders and plants that will help you lure these buzzy birds to your yard. A portion of the purchase price goes to Cornell Lab programs.

This guide is a convenient primer for locating and observing nests. It offers information on the basic types of nest structures, typical nesting habitat for each species, number of eggs a nest may contain, what the eggs look like, and more. Also included are facts on nest-related bird behaviors.

"[May 27, 2017] The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has introduced their All About Birds Pocket Guide Series, including 15 new titles, all published by Waterford press and the Cornell Group. The series is designed for regions, including such titles as Feeder Birds of the Midwest. These are not books but folding pocket guides that are easy to use, carry in a pocket, fold open at a moment?s notice and are quite weather-proof. The feeder birds guide has 40 colored bird illustrations and lists the food types most preferred by each species. Orioles come to platform nectar feeders, for example, and so do ruby-throated hummingbirds." - Wisconsin State Journal

"[May 31, 2017] The Cornell Lab of Ornithology published a useful series of All About Birds pocket guides in May. It was developed to inspire and support beginning birdwatchers. Each of the 13 folding pocket guides keys in on a particular aspect of birding such as Backyard Birds of Eastern and Central North America, Birding 101, and Right Bird, Right House. Some guides relate to other parts of the continent but many of them are useful to us. They can just slip into your pocket and I like the fact they are weather resistant." - The London Free Press

"[May 12, 2017] There?s a new 15-guide series to help beginning birders available from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Complete with detailed species information, photos, illustrations and maps, the titles cover a wide range of topics including Birding 101 and Gardening for Birds. Watching and feeding birds is one of the fastest growing hobbies in North America. Experts at the Cornell Lab are hoping that the guides not only help beginners learn about birds but encourage them to do what they can to protect and enhance bird habitat." - Green Bay Gazette

"[June 19, 2017] The Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Waterford Press have teamed up to offer a series of handy folding pocket guides about birds, including a Nests and Egg guide for North American backyard birds. The guide includes illustrations and descriptions of eggs and nests for 24 common bird species. Visit cornelllabpg.com for more information." - Living Bird Magazine

"[June 2017] Watching birds is one of the fastest growing hobbies in North America. The pocket guide series helps people enhance their enjoyment of birds by learning more about them. Complete with detailed species information, photos, illustrations, and maps, these titles cover a wide range of topics for everyone who is curious about birds ? from Birding 101 to Nests & Eggs of North American Backyard Birds. ?Birds are so beautiful and ubiquitous that millions of people are hooked on watching birds and asking all kinds of questions about what they?re seeing,? said Miyoko Chu, senior director of Communications at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. ?These guides get to the heart of those questions by revealing how to attract diverse birds to your yard, how to identify birds by sight and sound, and how to witness them raising their families ? sometimes right in your own backyard." - Adventure Sports Outdoors

"[May 17, 2017] The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has just launched its All About Birds Pocket Guide Series, 15 new birding titles published in collaboration with Waterford Press." - The Birding Wire

"[June 20, 2017] We all have indelible memories of positive first-time experiences. If you are enamored of the natural world, there?s a good possibility that some of yours are connected with your early use of field guides. Looking over The Cornell Lab of Ornithology?s All About Birds Pocket Guide Series (recently released and published in collaboration with Waterford Press and the Cornell Lab Publishing Group), memories arose of my childhood and adolescent engagement with field guides. Field guides supercharged my interest in nature and the awe that I have for it. They increased my knowledge about animals I saw or hoped to observe." - delcoculturevultures.com

"[May 15, 2017] The last thing you want to carry on a hike is a heavy bird book. Save the weight for trail snacks. The All About Birds Pocket Guide Series brings 15 new birding titles published in collaboration with Waterford Press and the Cornell Lab Publishing Group. The pocket guides are light, thin and easy to slip in a pocket or pack. The guides offer detailed species information, photos, illustrations, and maps. The titles cover a wide range of topics for everyone who is curious about birds ? from Birding 101 to Nests & Eggs of North American Backyard Birds. As a birdwatcher and a duck hunter, I like the Dabbling and Diving Ducks series for quick identification. There?s also Sea Ducks and Others if you?re into sea kayaking and want to ID birds." - GetOutdoorsNorthwest