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Wow, what a historic month for 10,000 Birds. The big news is that 10,000 Birds is now a group blog! Charlie Moores and Corey Finger are in the house which guarantees that you will always find something exciting, insightful, artistic, or amusing at this site. Are you as psyched as I am? What else happened [...]

Nature versus nurture? Not so much. In this NPR interview, Sarah Woolley, a professor of behavioral neuroscience, discusses how her studies of finch songs indicate that the two are inextricably linked.

As a person who is still relatively new to the world of birding I feel that I have made some pretty big strides in figuring out the wide variety of birds that I see and hear. I might not identify them all but I definitely manage to put a name to the vast majority that [...]

Passion for anything, even an activity as innocuous as bird watching, has the tendency to inspire ugly feelings. Jealousy seems to be a hazard of this avocation, or perhaps that’s just me. Reading about birding excursions in Cameroon or Tasmania or Britain or even Wisconsin can turn my brown eyes green. Basically, any account of [...]

Birdchick does a great job of exploring the National Birmingham Roller Club’s tension with real nature.

A story in pictures…roll over the images for pop-up captions. Once the female House Sparrow was driven off the males turned to fighting each other: Too bad for the House Sparrows that a European Starling was waiting in the wings: All of the pictures were taken in Kissena Park in Queens last weekend. And, no, [...]

The Killdeer eggs at my coworker Andrea’s sister’s house have hatched! three hours out of the egg Well, three of the four have so far, and a couple of days early too. The heat that reached the nineties today in Saratoga County left the mother panting (birds don’t sweat), but she hung in there, shading [...]

Some days, all seems right with the world. We’ve all had that experience, a sharpening of the senses and shift of perception where we recognize how rich, sweet, and fraught with dynamic potential everything in our life really is. Those are the days you ask yourself: “Can my pillow be any softer?” “Can this coffee [...]

The 52nd edition of I and the Bird is fast approaching. Send a link to your best blog post about wild birds or birding to me or our next excellent host, Paul (pjollig AT gmail DOT com) of The Wandering Tattler by 6/26.  While you’re at it , how about coming up with an outstanding [...]

Sara’s mother, Ann spent a splendid few days with us last week. I like to call Ann the queen of backyard birding, but she’s had to relinquish her title, at least for the interim. It seems that a bellicose black bear has been demolishing her feeders. Usually, when one hears about bears invading backyards, the [...]