Don’t tell me that September is almost here. Pretty soon, winter will be on our doorsteps (at least those of us north of the Equator.) On the bright side, birds are coming back! How will you spend this final weekend of August and will you be birding? Share your plans in the comments below.
I dearly hope to [...]

One of my favorite things about birding is being out and about enjoying the day while the rest of the world sleeps.  Dawn is not only great because of the chorus of birds that greets the early birder in spring, but because the dew or the rain of the night before give the whole world [...]

In this guest post Clare and Grant Morton talk about Broome Bird Observatory and Roebuck Bay, a critically important site for shorebirds on the East Asian - Australasian Flyway (a huge ‘channel’ which connects non-breeding areas in the south with breeding areas in the far north and is home to over 50 million migratory waterbirds [...]

ROK/South Korea is earning itself an unenviable reputation for destroying its environment in the name of capital projects sold (allegedly) to a supportive public. This press-release recently landed in my inbox and I thought I’d post it without too much extraneous comment - except to say that since the debacle of the Saemangeum reclamation (tens [...]

It is time, once again, to put long-suffering 10,000 Birds readers through the exquisite torture that is one of my posts in doggerel.  This time my maniacal muse has inspired me to versify what is perhaps the most vile substance that birders have come into contact with; the mud on the East Pond of Jamaica [...]

Atlas Intrepid ED (extra-low dispersion) binoculars. Not heard of them before? If not, then like me you missed an awful lot of internet chatter back in mid-2009 when the original shipment of this open-bridge design arrived at Eagle Optics (EO) from China and began gaining 5 Star reviews from almost everyone who looked through [...]

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 [...]

On one of those gloomy, gray, and gross days last week I met up with Doug and Shane, those two irrepressible Brooklyn birders, and we made our way to Nassau County, just east of New York City on Long Island, for some birding along the coast.  The cloud-filled sky occasionally drizzled on us, sometimes rained [...]