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Will September 2007 be remembered as the month 10,000 Birds introduced Welcome Wednesday, the soapbox from which our blogless readers can expound on issues related to birding, nature, and conservation? The three guest posts this month, When the Blackbirds Returned, Born Again as a Birder, and The Unseen, Nocturnal River of Birds respectively, were all […]

After our anniversary weekend I drove Daisy to the train station and pondered my options. Go home to watch football? Do some much-needed apartment cleaning? Run some errands? No to all of those, of course, I went birding!
But instead of wandering through fields and forests I decided to find myself a spot […]

As the name of this blog suggests, we here at 10,000 Birds are very into our birds and our birdwatching. Regular readers will have noticed that we are increasingly looking at ‘bugs’ too - butterflies, bees, beetles etc (we haven’t really gotten started on lions and lizards or fish and flowers, but give […]

This year, like most years, my father planted some Moonflowers (Ipomoea alba), hoping they would grow up the cedar trellises, built by my late grandfather, that stand against the railing on my folks’ back porch. And, unlike most years, he’s had a bumper crop of the giant, fragrant, nocturnal blossoms, topping out at 15 […]

That time of year has come when raptors are on the wing and a young man’s thoughts turn to… Osprey? It’s true. Come September, the denizens of Seattle aren’t the only ones watching seahawks. Nature lovers around the world turn out in hordes to observe the osprey’s southerly migration. However, none have pursued this peregrination […]

During this past summer whenever I was outdoors and the birds weren’t showing I took pictures of the dragonflies that I spotted. I’ve managed to identify some of them but I am certainly not an expert. As I’ve mentioned before, they are “a serious identification challenge and figuring them out is an interesting, […]

I wrote a post yesterday about how a common bird in one area is sometimes seen as being a vagrant in another: specifically how some relatively common North American birds (eg American Robin, Black and White Warbler, Dark-eyed Junco) cause twitchers on my side of “the pond” to - well, start ‘twitching’. Vagrancy isn’t of […]

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Now that summer is officially over, we can turn our attention to affairs of fall. Few events on the North American birding calendar are more autumnal than Cape May Autumn Weekend. Cape May in New Jersey is one of the magnetic poles of East Coast avian observations, a vortex that seems to exert an […]

A string of recent sightings of one of South America’s most unusual and secretive birds, one absent for over 40 years, is giving conservationists hope. The distinctive up-turned bill of Clytoctantes alixii earns it the nickname of “smiling bird.” Check out these photos to see why!