Win a trip to Texas for 250 words

Familiar with The Lister’s Forum and Birder’s Back Yard departments in each issue of the magazine? Those departments offer readers the chance to win a Bushnell 8x42 NatureView binocular, a certificate suitable for framing and a nomination for the Birder of the Year contest. (The 2006 Birder of the Year likely will visit south Texas in 2007.)

The deadline for the questions posed in the January/February 2006 issue is Jan. 30. You’ll find Forum Focus on page 25 and Backyard Inquiry on page 31.

Send your 250-word response today! It might appear in the May/June issue, and you might receive the title of Forum Birder or Backyard Birder and the prizes mentioned above.