Enter now to win a Swarovski binocular in late '08!

In each issue of WildBird, we pose questions in two departments: Birder's Back Yard and Lister's Forum. Readers whose responses appear in the magazine become eligible to win Backyard Birder or Forum Birder in that issue.

The winners in each issue will receive a certificate from WildBird, a copy of "The Songs of Wild Birds" by Lang Elliott and a copy of the new "Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America" (available in August) from Houghton Mifflin and a squall jacket from Swarovski.

In the November/December 2008 issue, all of the Backyard Birders and Forum Birders will become candidates for the Birder of the Year title and prizes. Want to know the prizes? A Swarovski 8x32 El and an expenses-paid guided trip to a birding hotspot. The 2007 winner will go to Costa Rica! Maybe the 2008 winner will, too.

So, how do you get in on this? The January/February 2008 issue posed this question in Lister's Forum: What is your favorite travel-oriented birding book?

Send your 300-word e-mail to wildbird AT bowtieinc DOT com on or before Jan. 3. If your response garners the Forum Birder title in the March/April issue, then you will become a Birder of the Year candidate and eligible for that Swarovski 8x32 EL.