  We report on some recent developments in our understanding of the light-quark
mass dependence and the SU(3) flavor symmetry breaking corrections to the
magnetic moments of the ground-state baryons in a covariant formulation of
baryon chiral perturbation theory, the so-called EOMS formulation. We show that
this covariant ChPT exhibits some promising features compared to its
heavy-baryon and infrared counterparts.
