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    The 200th issue

    Feb 08, 2020 4 minutes
    BY ELDON GREIJ

    When Editor Matt Mendenhall called to let me know that another milestone was coming up for BirdWatching, I was immediately interested. “It’s the 200th issue,” he said, “and the 34th year.” I thought back to an earlier milestone when former Editor Chuck Hagner called me in 2011 to remind me that 2012 would be the 25th anniversary of the magazine, which started as Birder's World in 1987 with 13,667 subscribers. That was huge. And it’s still going.

    The memories of the concept and launch began to flow as I relived that exciting and somewhat hectic time. My idea to start a birding magazine didn't

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