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And so February comes to an end. How was yours? More important, how will you be spending the weekend that merges February with March? Will you be looking at birds? Share your plans in the comments below. I’ll be recovering from an insane week in Guatemala. I can’t wait to recount the adventures we’ve had! Corey [...]

….chickadees?!? Say wha?!? That’s right, friends. It’s Mardi Gras in New Orleans and in the best traditions of this renowned bacchanal, we exhort you, nay beg you to show us your chickadees, titmice, and tits. Everyone loves a chickadee. There’s no denying it. In fact, 10,000 Birds readers voted the chickadee Most Beloved Backyard Bird [...]

Just a reminder that Mike is in Guatemala and Corey is in Honduras and Charlie flies around the world for a living, so if we here at 10,000 Birds are a bit slow at responding to questions or approving comments please bear with us…we’ll have some great posts when we’re all home again!

This past Monday was President’s Day in the United States.  For me, it meant a day off of work and for Daisy it meant a day off of school.  And what better way to spend an extra day off than to go for a walk around the West Pond of Jamaica Bay?  Of course, with [...]

How was your GBBC? Mine wasn’t very productive, though I did manage to keep track of dietary intake of four rather dull goldfinches for the duration of the count period. The most notable point about my 2009 Great Backyard Bird Count is that I finally have a backyard in which to count birds! In the [...]

All across North America, parents, students, and most of all teachers are grappling with the wane of Winter Recess. The rest of us are just trying to get by. A weekend is a weekend… make the most of it! What are you doing this weekend and will you be birding? Share your plans in the [...]

When the vagaries and viccissitudes of a temperate climate become decidedly intemperate, I begin to long for California. Most California dreamers conjure visions of that sun-kissed coastline from Santa Barbara south to San Diego. My mind takes me back to Northern California, easily one of the most magnificent and dramatic landscapes in the world yet [...]

This will be the last Jory-written quiz for awhile while he and his family recover from a horrendous flood that destroyed the interior of their home.  Hopefully, the legions of fans he has accumulated while serving as the 10,000 Birds’ Quizmaster will be patient and keep visiting, and, once he is ready to write some [...]

Window feeders are great.  Especially when the birds that come to said feeders are used to people walking up to look at them.  They’re not so great when the squirrels learn that the window serves as an effective barrier to human intervention and start launching airborne assaults, commando style, from the roof to the feeders [...]

Over at Pharyngula PZ Myers has one heck of an image of a woodpecker fight.  My question is how did the Northern Flicker manage to catch the Red-headed Woodpecker’s tongue?