Here are all of the amazing 10,000 Birds Beat Writers in alphabetical order by last name.  If you want to see the posts in which they were introduced you can see the first group, the second wave, or the final beats.  If you don’t see a beat writer you are looking for here they might have left the blog in which case you will find them on the 10,000 Birds Writers Emeritus page.  If you are looking to find information on Mike Bergin or Corey Finger just click their names.

If you scroll down to the bottom of the Beat Writer directory you will see the Beat Writer posting calender so you know when to look for your favorite 10,000 Birds Beat Writer.  Note that everyone does their best to stick to the schedule but occasionally life gets in the way.

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James Currie might be a bit too famous to be writing on this blog but we decided to let him anyway.  If you have ever seen Birding Adventures TV you have seen James.  So, yeah, we have a television star on 10,000 Birds!  James has Worldwide Birding Adventures as his beat and posts on the first and third Tuesdays of each month.

A life-long birder and native of South Africa, James Currie has many years experience in the birding and wildlife tourism arenas. James has led professional wildlife and birding tours for 15 years and his passion for birding and remote cultures has taken him to far corners of the earth from the Amazon and Australia to Africa and Madagascar. He is also an expert in the field of sustainable development and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in African Languages and a Masters degree in Sustainable Environmental Management. From 2004-2007 James worked as the Managing Director of Africa Foundation, a non-profit organization that directs its efforts towards the uplifting of communities surrounding wildlife areas in Africa. James is currently the host and owner of Nikon’s Birding Adventures TV and he resides in West Palm Beach, Florida.

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Dean Eades is an amazing wildlife photographer who only takes images of wild and free animals which is how it should be. You can find more of his work on his website. Dean will be putting up posts every other Saturday on his beat of Bird Mad Bird Photography.

Yorkshire-born Dean Eades now lives in Lincolnshire which is where he spends the majority of his time looking for the next great shot. He makes regular trips to the Norfolk and East Yorkshire coasts and loves Scotland when he manages to get there! His life revolves around his love of birds, wildlife and photography. Dean is one of the administrators for the Lincolnshire Bird Club forum and provides the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust with many of his images. He has also been a warden to help out the Trust when needed.  His work has appeared on the BBC, has been published in Birdwatch, Bird Watching, and BBC Wildlife Magazine, in books, and on websites and has been shown in several displays. He is sponsored by Canon, London Camera Exchange, Bogen, and Stealth Wildlife Watching Supplies.

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Renato Espinosa is known to 10,000 Birds readers as both the owner and operator of Pululahua Hostal in Ecuador and also as a frequent commenter on the blog.  He also blogs every other Saturday as the Ecuador beat writer.

Renato was born in Quito, Ecuador and quickly flew to the USA to learn all about engineering and climbing company ladders.  After getting his engineering degree from the University of Minnesota he worked in the Standard-American-Rat-Race-Company for fifteen years.  After climbing the ladder to where he could no longer see the ground, he decided to jump off the ladder and migrate south like all normal birds do.  To his surprise home did not look like it did when he left as a young fledgling; the towns were bigger, most of his friends had nests of their own, and the countryside was changed.  Shocked by all the change he searched for a new life and a new wife.  He stumbled across a vivacious young chick who would accompany him inside a volcanic crater to set up a love nest.  So, after eight years of nesting inside the crater a new love for nature and birds has sprung a career in environmental conservation and birding tours.  Finally this bird has come home to roost!

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Dale Forbes is a marvelously nice guy who is far too modest about his birding skills. Though Dale normally writes on his own blog, Discovering Alpine Birds, which is loaded with great digiscoping images, he also writes weekly on BirdingBlogs.com and  every other Tuesday here on 10,000 Birds.  His beat is Looking out from the Alps.

Dale Forbes got his first pair of binoculars for a very early birthday after his dad realized that it was the only way to be left in peace.  Many robins, eagles and finches later, he ended up at university studying various biology things and wrote a thesis on vertebrate biogeography in southern African forests.  While studying, he also worked on various conservation/research projects (parrots, wagtails, vultures, and anything else that flew) and ringed thousands of birds.  Dale studied scarlet macaws, and worked in their conservation, for three years in southern Costa Rica, followed by a year in the Caribbean working on Whale Sharks. After meeting the woman of his dreams, he moved to Austria where he now has the coolest job in the world making awesome toys for birders.  He happens to also be obsessed with photography, particularly digiscoping, and despite all efforts will almost certainly never be a good birder.

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Suzie Gilbert first came to our attention here at 10,000 Birds when she published Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings in 2009. She is also the author of Hawk Hill which was published in 1996. Suzie wrote a marvelous guest post, Wild Bird Rescue 101, for 10,000 Birds back in September of 2009 and we are pleased to present her posts on the “Bird Rehabilitator Beat” every other Friday morning. You can visit Suzie’s website here.

Suzie Gilbert is a licensed wild bird rehabilitator whose shameful secret is that on one occasion (well … maybe more than one) she has received a little brown job, or a fledgling whatever, and has been completely unable to ID it. Luckily, she has birder friends who will rush to her aid, although she must then suffer their mockery. Suzie runs Flyaway, Inc. out of her home, and has been caring for injured and orphaned wild birds for 20 years. Why go birding when you can just stroll through the house? Honestly, though, she is wildly envious of birders and their trips to exotic locales. Meanwhile, she is also a freelance writer in New York’s Hudson Valley, and is the sole parent of two teenagers. Never a dull moment.

Felonious Jive is The Best Birder in the World.  Not much is known about him, but his brother, close friend, and colleague, Seagull Steve, blogs over at Bourbon, Bastards and Birds.  Felonious Jive’s beat posts on the topic of “I Am Birder” are published on the fourth Tuesday of each and every month.

The Great Ornithologist Felonious Jive is indisputably the world’s greatest birder. As a child, Felonious was involved in a tragic accident that left him blind and crippled. Miraculously, he began regaining his faculties while parked at a window that faced his family’s bird feeder. Following his full recovery, he continued his pursuit of birds past his family’s yard and out across the globe. Now, his identification skills are unmatched by anyone living, dead, or unborn. Although considered a living deity in the birding community, his avian abilities have made him critical of his comparatively inexperienced peers. This has won him no popularity contests, although he remains much sought-after by birdwatchers of the opposite sex. His close colleague Seagull Steve writes of his exploits at Bourbon, Bastards and Birds.

Larry Jordan is or should be well-known to 10,000 Birds readers as a bird blogger who is deeply committed to conservation.  His blog, The Birder’s Report, is, like 10,000 Birds, a BirdLife International Species Champion.  Larry is the West Coast beat writer here and his posts  appear on alternating Wednesdays.

Larry Jordan was introduced to birding after moving to northern California where he was overwhelmed by the local wildlife, forcing him to buy his first field guide just to be able to identify all the species visiting his yard. Building birdhouses and putting up feeders brought the avian fauna even closer and he was hooked. Larry wanted to share his passion for birds and conservation and hatched The Birder’s Report in September of 2007. His recent focus is on bringing the Western Burrowing Owl back to life in California where he also monitors several Bluebird trails. He is a BirdLife Species Champion and contributes to several other conservation efforts, being the webmaster for Wintu Audubon Society and most recently, the habitat manager for the Burrowing Owl Conservation Network.

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Clare Kines, who has a wonderful blog with beautiful photographs, The House and other Arctic musings, that everyone who has ever wanted to visit the far northern latitudes should read, is the Arctic Canada beat writer.  His posts appear every month on the fourth Sunday.

Clare Kines is a retired Mountie and a failed businessman, which apparently qualifies him to be the Economic Development Officer for Arctic Bay Nunavut.  Raised in Manitoba, Clare has lived in three provinces and two territories, managing to get kicked out of all them except this last one. So far.  He has had a lifelong love of nature, never growing out a child’s curiosity. Given a Peterson’s guide by his grandfather, he made birds a big part of that love. He’s led tours to the high Arctic and Cuba, and writes probably the most northerly blog in the world, The House and other Arctic musings.  He considers himself the luckiest man alive, having found great love twice in his life. His first wife, Janice, passed away in 1996. After moving north he met and fell for Leah. They have two fantastic children. He lives in an incredibly beautiful, magical part of the world – a place few people get to know.

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Walter Kitundu first came to our attention on 10,000 Birds when he made a comment here.  Are we ever glad he did!  He is an excellent photographer and his blog, Bird Light Wind, is well worth a visit.  Walter manages to see and photograph so many great birds that we felt it would be unfair to limit him to one specific beat so he is the Beat on Assignment, and will blog on the same topic for several consecutive posts before moving on to another topic.  You can find his work on alternating Fridays.

Walter Kitundu is an artist and designer, instrument builder and bird photographer. As an artist he has created hand built record players powered by the wind and rain, fire and earthquakes, birds, light, and the force of ocean waves. Walter has performed and been in residence at art centers and science museums internationally. He has performed with the renowned Kronos Quartet, bassist Meshell Ndegeocello, the electronic music duo Matmos, and the legendary Marshall Allen – in venues from Carnegie Hall to a high school library in Egilstaadir, Iceland. In 2008 Walter became a MacArthur Fellow. Walter loves photographing birds and is an ongoing volunteer with the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory. He was hooked when a Red-tailed Hawk landed at his side, ate a caterpillar, then refused to leave. He is a Senior Design Developer for the Studio Gallery at the Exploratorium in San Francisco where he designs and builds environments for learning. You can see more of his work on his blog, Bird Light Wind.

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Carrie Laben, known for her penchant for the extinct penguins of the north, fills the role of beat writer for the Interior West of the United States.  You can catch her excellent and thoughtful writing every Friday.

Carrie Laben, after years of writing and birding in New York State, moved to Montana to pursue her two great passions more effectively. She is now working on her MFA in Creative Nonfiction at the University of Montana in Missoula. When she is not cranking out essays and specific stories, or wandering around on mountains failing to see the birds she is looking for, she is likely to be drinking one of the many fine local microbrews or attending a potluck with something from the local farmer’s market in hand. Or, to be perfectly honest, playing games on Facebook, but let’s not talk about that. You can read more of Carrie’s work at Great Auk – or Greatest Auk?

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Greg Laden, who is familiar to anyone who pays attention to nature blogs because of his perch near the pinnacle of the Nature Blog Network.  Greg brings a lot of great traits to the table and his posts on the third Thursday every month on Bird Evolutionary Biology will be the highlight of your month.  His brief bio is below and the non-sequitur of a final sentence should give you some idea of how well he fits in here at 10,000 Birds.

Greg Laden has been watching birds since they were still dinosaurs, but has remained the consummate amateur. This is probably because he needs better binoculars. Based in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, Greg is a biological anthropologist and Africanist, who writes and teaches about Evolution, especially of humans. He also blogs at Scienceblogs.com. Greg‘s beat is bird evolutionary biology. One could say that knowing the science of birds can make the birds more interesting. But really, knowing about the birds that go with the science is more likely to make the science more interesting. And thus, birding and Neo Darwinian Theory go hand in hand. Darwin was, after all, a pretty serious birder. Greg has seen a bird eat a monkey in the wild.

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Clare Morton is familiar to those of you who read her guest posts here on 10,000 Birds about the shorebirds that she monitors and protects at Roebuck Bay in Broome, the world-famous shorebird site in Australia, before she became a beat writer.  She writes weekly on Sundays  about her Western Australia beat.

Clare and her husband Grant have lived permanently in Broome, Western Australia since 1999 after living in various outback locations around Western Australia and Darwin. Her childhood was spent in the UAE and Kuwait (before the wars) with flamingos being the highlight close to the Iraq border in the early 80’s. 1985 and 1986 were spent working in Maine and Florida before moving to Australia. In the late 80’s she traveled with her husband birding and working throughout Europe and the USA for 2 years. She currently does full time voluntary work for the local Australasian Wader Study Group, which aims to understand and analyze the factors determining shorebird numbers in a rapidly changing world. She is actively involved in fieldwork and maintaining the database. This involves the sighting of these birds both here and overseas resulting in some incredible life stories. She also monitors Pied Oystercatchers breeding along a 23km stretch of beach by bicycle and on foot. She hopes to spread the word about the dangers the shorebirds face as they migrate north each year and the changing bird seasons experienced throughout the year.

The International Birder of Mystery who blogs here as Redgannet is a world-traveling birder who prefers to blog under a veil of anonymity.  His beat is International Birding and he might even be birding your local patch right now.  Redgannet’s blog posts appear once a fortnight on Saturdays.

The nom de blog was adopted to add an air of mystery and make himself more attractive to women.  He has been working for over 25 years as a crew member/flight attendant.   Experiences of too many people for too long in confined and uncomfortable conditions lead him to seek out quiet, open, well-ventilated places, where no-one asks him difficult questions.  His father first whetted Redguga’s appetite for all things natural by buying him his first pair of 7x35s and a copy of Thorburn’s Birds. Having no mentor beyond an indulgent parent, he spent the first season hoping for an Egyptian Vulture to visit the bird table in his English garden. His most memorable birding moment is seeing an Egyptian Vulture with those same binoculars 26 years later.  Redgannet (the blog) fledged in February 2009 and the 100th post was published as he was invited to become a beat writer for 10,000 Birds.  Redgannet is married to Canon, but his heart and half of his house belongs to Helen and their son Joseph.  He is looking forward to communicating with people who don’t ask if he is searching for the “feathered variety” of bird.

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Adam Riley takes awe-inspring picture of wild birds and animals.  We are seriously fortunate to have him writing on the African Birding Beat here on 10,000 Birds on the second Tuesday of each month.

Adam has had a lifelong interest in wildlife since childhood, which evolved into a particular fascination with birds. Raised in a rural region of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Adam qualified as a Chartered Accountant but in 1998 his career path took an alternative route when he founded Rockjumper Birding Tours with his friend Jonathan Rossouw. Since 2000 Adam has been the sole owner and managing director of Rockjumper and has also founded Indri – Ultimate Mammal Voyages and Oryx – Worldwide Photographic Safaris. Adam has traveled extensively to all 7 continents, leading tours to numerous countries ranging from Colombia to Egypt, Angola to Papua New Guinea and Antarctica to Alaska. He is one of Africa’s most experienced birders, having seen over 2,000 species on the continent as well as 7,000 species worldwide.

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David J. Ringer has been blogging about birds for quite some time and is therefore one of the best in the genre. His blog, Search and Serendipity, is a must-read for bird blogging aficionados. He posts monthly on the 12th on his 10,000 Birds beat, Taxonomy and Systematics.

David says he’s exploring the world one bird at a time. His fascination with birds and nature began at the age of four or five, and he now works full time in conservation of Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi River birds and ecosystems with the National Audubon Society. He is a writer and communicator whose day jobs have taken him to six continents and more than 25 countries, including Papua New Guinea – where he lived for nearly a year and became fell in love with subject of island biogeography – Vanuatu, Kenya, and Cameroon.

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Jochen Roeder’s Bell Tower Birding is a unique place in the bird blogosphere and when he moved back to Germany from the United States several bloggers contemplated following him there and dragging him back to the states.  Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed, and while we may have to poke Jochen with a sharp stick on occasion to make sure he posts in a timely way he blogs every month on the 10th on a dual Central Europe and Bird Names beat.

Jochen Roeder was born in Germany and raised to be a birder. He also spent a number of years abroad, just so he could see more birds. One of his most astounding achievements is the comprehension that Yellow-crowned Night-herons do not exist, as he failed to see any despite birding in North America for more than two years. He currently lives near Heidelberg, one of the most boring places for a birder to live, a fact about which he likes to whinge a lot. When he is not birding or trying to convince his young son that patiently scanning some fields for migrants is more fun than working the jungle gym of a playground, he enjoys contemplating the reasoning behind the common names of birds.

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Donna Lynn Schulman was one of the kind Queens birders who helped Corey find his way around his adopted borough when he moved to New York City. A librarian by trade, she is the ideal person to have the Book Review Beat on 10,000 Birds.

Having been attached to books all her life, Donna is thrilled to be engaged in a passion that requires fealty to an information artifact called a “field guide.” Donna divides her birding time between Queens, NY, where she grew up, and central New Jersey, where she is on the faculty of a very large public university, and a volunteer with the Sandy Hook Bird Observatory of New Jersey Audubon. She was a Library Journal book reviewer for 15 years, reviewing over 100 titles, and has also reviewed birding books for the Queens County Bird Club’s News & Notes, which she formerly edited. When she is not birding or photographing dragonflies, or going to the theatre with her wonderful daughter, Donna travels to Florida where she attempts to turn her young nephews into birders, and contemplates writing an article for her blog, Queensgirl.

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Sharon Stiteler needs no introduction to anyone with even a passing familiarity with the bird blogosphere.

Her ebullient personality is matched only by her digiscoping skills, which are mad.  Sharon writes a double beat, on both the Upper Midwest and Bird Feeding, and her posts appear every other week on Wednesdays.

Sharon Stiteler was given a Peterson Field Guide to Birds when she was seven years old and snapped.  She loves birds – it’s just the way she’s wired.  Since 1997, she has made it her goal to get paid to go birding. She runs the popular birding blog, Birdchick.com, and has been in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and on NBC Nightly News as well as making regular appearances on Twin Cities’ TV and radio stations.  She’s a professional speaker and story-teller and her writing can be found in several publications including WildBird Magazine, Outdoor News, and Birding Business. She wrote the books Disapproving Rabbits and City Birds/Country Birds.  When she’s not digiscoping, tweeting or banding birds, she’s a part-time park ranger and award-winning beekeeper.

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Nate Swick, the man who has recently challenged the birding world to get its collective act together, has his chicken scratchings appear every other Tuesday.  He will also have two beats – the Southeastern United States and the American Birding World.

Nate Swick is a birder.  He grew up in the midwest but currently makes his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with his wife and 1 year old son, who is not yet aware that he is a birder too.  He has a soft spot for Piping Plovers and loves pelagics even when his stomach doesn’t, which makes him the quintessential Carolina birder. When he’s not looking for birds, which is not often, he enjoy music with banjos in it, disc golf, good beer, progressive politics and the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team and he’s not particularly shy about sharing his opinion on any of those things.  Nate is also a member of the Nature Blog Network Blog team, helps lead trips for the Wake County Audubon’s Young Naturalist’s Club and he’s the eBird reviewer for the state of North Carolina.  He writes about birds and birding at The Drinking Bird.

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Alan Tilmouth should be familiar to every bird-blog reader out there on the interwebs.  If you haven’t read his blog – alan tilmouth: birds words nature images – you don’t know what you are missing.  Though Alan’s monthly beat is UK Birding we see that as more of a jumping-off point for all that entails in the 21st century.  So expect to see posts about the technology, the occasional bright idea about birding business and conservation, and how it all hangs together (or not) with four kids in tow on the second Sunday of every month.

With a high flying career in business management Alan Tilmouth was once described as an irruptive birder. With the arrival of twins to add to his existing two kids in 2007 he grabbed the opportunity to bring some life changes.  Business sold, he is now a full-time dad, birder, and blogger. Alan lives in Northumberland England’s most northerly county, works part-time as part of the birdguides news team, tinkers with freelance writing and tries to figure out how his DSLR works.

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Duncan Wright is well-respected here at 10,000 Birds for his tireless and thankless work making sure that Wikipedia’s bird entries are accurate and up-to-date and his even more thankless willingness to comment on our blog posts here on 10,000 Birds.  He posts every single Wednesday here as the New Zealand beat writer.

Duncan Wright is a Wellington-based ornithologist working on the evolution of New Zealand’s birds. He’s previously worked on seabirds in California and Hawaii, monkey behaviour in Uganda, sharks in the Bahamas and grasshopper genetics in Namibia. He came into birds rather later in life, and could quit any time he wants to.

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Julie Zickefoose, who could hardly need an introduction to anyone who pays attention to nature in the United States, has the unique beat of Zickefoosean Observation.  Her observations appear here on 10,000 Birds on the third Sunday of each month.

Julie Zickefoose is an artist, naturalist and writer specializing in natural history. Her writing is based on keen observation of animal and human behavior, and she likes to interweave solid natural history information with larger philosophical themes to challenge and inspire the reader. Julie contributes three-minute natural history commentaries to National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. She illustrates her books and magazine articles with her own sketches and watercolor paintings. Letters from Eden(Houghton Mifflin, 2006) will soon be followed by a memoir about the birds she has raised, healed, studied and followed throughout her life. She lives at Indigo Hill, an 80-acre wildlife sanctuary in Appalachian Ohio with her husband, Bill Thompson III, their children Phoebe and Liam, and their Boston terrier, Chet Baker.

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Beat Writer Posting Calender

Sunday

• 7 AM          Clare Morton
• 1 PM           1st Jochen Roeder, 2nd Alan Tilmouth, 3rd Julie Zickefoose, 4th Clare Kines

Monday

All you get on Mondays are Mike and Corey.  You poor, suffering reader you.

Tuesday

• 7 AM         James Currie (1st and 3rd Tuesdays), Adam Riley (2nd Tuesdays) Felonious Jive (4th Tuesdays)
• 1 PM           Nate Swick  or Dale Forbes

Wednesday

• 7 AM          Duncan Wright
• 1 PM           Larry Jordan or Sharon Stiteler

Thursday

• 7 AM         Donna Schulman (1st Thursdays), David Ringer (2nd Thursdays), Greg Laden (3rd Thursdays)

Friday

• 7 AM          Walter Kitundu or Suzie Gilbert
• 1 PM           Carrie Laben

Saturday

• 7 AM          Renato Espinosa or Redgannet
• 1 PM           Dean Eades (every other)

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