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September 2 is International Rock-Flipping Day. Mark your calendars! Dave Bonta has the details.

The dedicated biologists of Project Puffin endure being pooped on, dive-bombed, and nearly deafened in order to restore and protect breeding colonies of Atlantic Puffins on islands off the coast of Maine. Check out the pics with this article.

I once mused in a blog about how remarkably generous birders can be with their time, and (yet again) I was fortunate enough to begin my day’s birding in the company of a top birder - Dave Sargeant, one of Oman’s most respected resident birders, site-guide author (”Birdwatching Guide to Oman”), and one of the [...]

Shorebird season is in full swing right now and for my money, there is no place finer to observe the summer staging of sandpipers, dowitchers, and plovers than Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Apparently, I’m not alone in this assessment judging by the outstanding turnout at Jamaica Bay’s 2nd Annual Shorebird Festival. This superb event, the [...]

Pica of Feathers of Hope just initiated an intriguing new blog project. As she approaches her 700th bird, she’s decided to begin the next phase of her birding life by sketching a bird a day. Starting with a White-faced Ibis, Pica is rendering the avians in her life Bird by Bird.

A good friend of mine, who I’ll call Carmine Sandiego because I never know where in the world he is, has no interest whatsoever in birds. Nonetheless, he respects my own obvious enthusiasm to the extent that he tries to get me good avian photos from his travels. A batch from a recent trip to [...]

I’m not sure that Mike will appreciate this especially, but his mention of American Woodcock as his jinx bird in the birding meme we just posted reminded me that I still have a lot of galleries to transfer onto 10,000 Birds - and that one of them just happens to be a few photos of [...]

You know the birds I’m talking about. The little ones that run to and fro on tiny black legs, alternately chasing and being chased by waves on sandy beaches. They have a black bill in addition to their black legs and are white below and dark above. They’re the ones that probe in the wet [...]

Bill Jackson and his wife are not serious birders, but they, in his words, “really like those little guys.” They’ve accumulated a few minutes of footage from their travels through the Pacific Northwest and set it to Bobby Darin’s 50’s classic. The birds may be common, but the video is cute and it’s on YouTube [...]

Congresha of Earth House Hold has tagged us with his Birding Meme. While we try to refrain from excessive meme-blogging, this one is well within our collective wheelhouse. Let’s have at it!
1. What is the coolest bird you have seen from your home?
Mike - Most definitely the occasional Bald Eagle visiting NYC from its wintering [...]