Birds and Blooms Extra

Even more of what you love from North America's #1 bird and garden magazine, celebrating the beauty in your own backyard.  Published on the months in between the Birds and Blooms magazine, Extra features vivid photographs, useful tips and expert advice to inform, inspire, and connect enthusiasts who share a passion for backyard birds and gardening.

FROM THE EDITOR

This Month

Easter Surprise • Hop into a joyful spring with Lenten roses.

Off the Menu • Nine foods to avoid to keep your backyard birds healthy.

THE FEED

Scent-Sational Flowers • Bring aromatherapy right to your home garden.

SPREAD THE SCENTED LOVE • Three ways to use fragrant favorites.

Growing Lingo • Easy to understand definitions of 17 common gardening terms.

Read Up on the Essentials

Telling Heads from Tails • Learn the common language behind bird anatomy to improve your identification skills.

Springing Forward • ’Tis the season for feathered friends to journey north, find mates and look for new homes.

Takin’a Bath • Give feathered friends a place to rest and refresh.

SAFE AND SOUND UNDERGROUND • FROM CRANNIES IN COASTAL ROCK TO TUNNELS IN FLORIDA SUBDIVISIONS, WE DIG INTO THE SECRETS OF BURROWING BIRDS.

OWL LORE

WHAT A KNOCK OUT! • How the original low-maintenance rose came to be.

ROSE BOOT CAMP

PLANT A BUTTERFLY Paradise • GROW YOUR OWN WILDFLOWERS AND WATCH FOR FLUTTERING WINGS AND DELICATE LANDINGS.

Regional Roundup

Ask the Experts • Our pros solve migration mysteries, plant curiosities and more.

MEET THE EXPERTS

Peaks, Coast and Forest • Wander three distinct habitats in Olympic National Park.

UNDER THE STARS • Stay late and gaze at the uninterrupted sky.

Which tricky bird keeps eluding you? • Readers reveal the fliers that—no matter how hard they try—they just can’t seem to find.

Caption This! • One of these nesting owls looks a little stiff. What was it thinking?

Best Dressed • Host a gala for elegant zebra swallowtails in your yard by growing their favorite nectar plants.

Zebra Swallowtail

Blond Beauties • How many of these yellow feathered friends can you ID?

Find the Hummingbird

Submission Guidelines • We love hearing from you—in fact, we couldn’t publish this magazine without you!

Birds and Blooms Extra US

Primrose Wisdom • Get acquainted with two blooms that share a name.