One of the more unusual pages here on 10,000 Birds (and we do have some unusual pages) is the one devoted to the weird and wonderful world of domestic Mallard crosses - or to use the phrase I coined many years ago ‘Manky Mallards’.

Writing and updating this by now very long page does not, by [...]

As I described in my recent blog post about my walk across Queens, I was fortunate enough to have a male Ring-necked Pheasant Phasianus colchicus cross my path as I made my way through the Kissena Corridor Park.  It was perhaps the most cooperative pheasant ever; though Europeans mostly refer to P. colchicus as Common [...]

I don’t know about you, but one of my favorite features on 10,000 Birds, one you can’t appreciate through our rss feed, is actually the header. Specifically, I love our randomly rotating triptych of bird photographs. Each one links to a cherished trip report or photo gallery. If you haven’t indulged yourself yet, waste enjoy [...]

The threat of development hangs over many of the world’s wetlands, but in South Korea it does far more than just hang. Having helped drive the Spoon-billed Sandpiper towards extinction with the massive Saemangeum reclamation - a vast area of critical importance to staging shorebirds which was finally closed off to the sea in 2006 [...]

Robert Frost, the four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, was able to find meaning in the most minor of topics in his poetry.  Whether one prefers “Mending Wall,” “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening,” or “The Road Not Taken” one will recognize that Frost could turn even the most mundane of events into an amazing [...]

So how come, 10,000 Birds readers may be asking, are you reviewing a crime novel - and a crime novel that hasn’t even been published in the US yet? Well actually, that’s quite a good story (not as good as ‘Blue Lightning’ as it happens, but still worth telling).

At last year’s BirdFair I made the [...]

With 2010 being the ‘International Year of Biodiversity’ and with me being just a little - er, cynical that what the world needs after Copenhagen is yet another unproductive talking-shop I thought I might look further forward than just to the end of 2010 and predict some of the environmentally-based cliches that people may be [...]

May 2009 was ’Puerto Rico Month‘ here at 10,000 Birds, the celebration of which culminated in a giveaway of a free ‘Endemic Dash’ tour courtesy of Kevin Loughlin and Wildside Nature Tours. The fortunate recipient of that holiday was longtime friend Patrick Belardo of The Hawk Owl’s Nest. Now that he’s unpacked his adventure, we’re the fortunate ones. Here, Patrick [...]