Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but what he really aspires to be is a naturalist. Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird, Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network.

Do you love your birds of summer? Enjoy them while they last; depending on where you live, they may already be on their way out. Increase the pleasure of your special bird sightings by bragging about them here. Step right up and share your best bird of the weekend.
My 4 year-old daughter motivated me to refill the bird feeder this weekend, [...]

August is here, which means that all too soon your local migratory birds will be gone, as will our long, lazy days of summer. Enjoy them — the birds and the days — while they last! What will you be doing this weekend and will you be birding? Share your plans in the comments below.
The men [...]

Do you love your birds of summer? Enjoy them while they last; depending on where you live, they’ll be departing before you know it. Increase the pleasure of your special bird sightings by bragging about them here. Step right up and share your best bird of the weekend.
Despite being out and about this weekend, I hardly saw any birds. Odd, huh? An [...]

August is here, which means that all too soon your local migratory birds will be gone. So will our long, lazy days of summer. Enjoy them — the birds and the days — while they last! What will you be doing this weekend and will you be birding? Share your plans in the comments below.
I’ll [...]

Some of the finest birding in all of North America can be enjoyed in Florida (as I and hopefully many of you can discuss at the 2011 Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival in January). Some of our finest bird bloggers reside there as well. I don’t know if Eva of The Flying Mullet is [...]

Publisher Scott & Nix recently posted an excellent interview with field guide phenom and birding luminary David Allen Sibley. Enjoy this quick but comprehensive discussion of Sibley’s many projects and interests.

Do you love your birds of summer? Enjoy them while they last; depending on where you live, they’ll be departing before you know it. Increase the pleasure of your special bird sightings by bragging about them here. Step right up and share your best bird of the weekend.
I was most pleased by the Ospreys and Great Black-backed Gulls perched proudly on the [...]

We at 10,000 Birds have accrued a couple of honors worth mentioning in the last week. The first of these is inclusion in science.newsriver.org, a new science blog aggregator written by web hero Dave Winer. I’m not sure how many of you have followed the chaos and controversy that has beset the science blogging community, [...]

With the end of July upon us, the time has come to shift your summer (or winter, depending on your relationship to the Equator) into overdrive. Make this weekend count! What are your plans this weekend and will you be birding? Please share your plans in the comments below.
My family and I had a tremendous time [...]

Every other year, a large chunk of my family (my wife’s mother’s side) rents a fancy house on a fancy beach somewhere on the East Coast. We’ve been to the Outer Banks of North Carolina and DownEast Acadia in Maine as well as New York’s Finger Lakes and the Jersey shore, but apparently we love Sandbridge, VA because [...]

Do you love your birds of summer? Enjoy them while they last; depending on where you live, they’ll be departing before you know it. Increase the pleasure of your special bird sightings by bragging about them here. Step right up and share your best bird of the weekend.
While I found the hunting Ospreys and soaring Brown Pelicans special indeed, the arrival of [...]

With the end of July drawing nigh, the time has come to shift your summer (or winter, depending on your relationship to the Equator) into overdrive. Make this weekend count! What are your plans this weekend and will you be birding? Please share your plans in the comments below.
I am lucky enough to be heading [...]

If you’ve been writing or reading blogs for the last few years, you’ve witnessed the exponential explosion of micropublishers and likely felt at least a few tremors of the Attention Crash. One might find it easy to imagine there is nothing new under the sun, that the old blogs are the best blogs. Here’s a [...]

One would think that, after twelve years, the process of meticulously crafting an enormous wooded chicken statue only to stuff it with fireworks and ritually incinerate it would get old. Believe it or not, a Chicken Inferno always feels fresh!
Yes, this third weekend of July brought friends and family from around the Northeast to my [...]

Most North American birders may not know or care but one of our national organizations, the American Birding Association, is in the midst of serious turmoil and perhaps profound change. Three of bird blogdom’s biggest thinkers — Nathan Swick, Kenn Kaufmann, and Rick Wright — have weighed in on the ABA’s past, present, and possible [...]

Do you love your birds of summer? I sure hope so because they’ll be hanging around your neighborhood for a while yet. One sure way to heighten the pleasure of a special bird sighting is to brag about it later. Step right up and share your best bird of the weekend.
While I have many excellent actual avians [...]

Now that July 4th has passed, is it too soon to observe that summer will be over before we know it? I love summer and look forward to it all year, yet now that I’m in the thick of it, fall feels far too close. Better enjoy this blistering heat while it lasts! How will you [...]

Do you love your birds of summer? I sure hope so because they’ll be hanging around your neighborhood for a while yet. One sure way to heighten the pleasure of a special bird sighting is to brag about it later. Step right up and share your best bird of the weekend.
My best birds of the weekend were [...]

Now that July 4th has passed, is it too soon to observe that summer will be over before we know it? I love summer and look forward to it all year, yet now that I’m in the thick of it, fall feels far too close. Better enjoy this blistering heat while it lasts! How [...]

This is the best part of the trip
This is the trip, the best part I really like
– Jim Morrison, The Soft Parade
Wow, has it really been five years since the very first edition of I and the Bird? Indeed it has! Even back then, we were a far-flung assemblage of international avian observers. Over the [...]