I actually find that Bird Talk has, for a lack of a better term "lost a lot of feathers", over the last few years. I remembered it being more informative in the past - now I find that it's mostly advertisement.
yes agreed that there are definitely a lot of advertisements. sometimes they're good ones, lots of them are useless. a few of the articles are cute and what not. i enjoy the pictures mostly, especially the centerfolds - most of the time are beautiful.