Welcome Bill Thompson III
Bill Thompson III is the editor of Bird Watcher’s Digest by day. He’s also a keen birder and the author of many books including The Young Birder’s Guide to Birds of Eastern North America, Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges and Bird Watching For Dummies. Bill is also a field trip leader, an ecotourism consultant, the host of the “This Birding Life” podcast and a regular speaker/performer on the birding festival circuit.
His North American life list is somewhere between 673 and 675. His favorite bird is the red-headed woodpecker. His “spark bird” was a snowy owl. He has watched birds in 25 countries and 44 states. But his favorite place to watch birds is on the 80-acre farm he shares with his wife, artist/writer Julie Zickefoose. Some kind person once called Bill “The Pied Piper of Birding” and he has been trying to live up to that moniker ever since.
