Corey is a lifelong upstate New Yorker who recently took the plunge and moved to the city. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list and broke the magical 300 barrier in New York State in 2007 by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative. He lives near Forest Park in Queens with Daisy, their son, Desmond, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.

With many, many, many apologies to Wallace Stevens, who does not deserve what I am about to do to his most famous poem, here is my take on the Superbowl of birding, which has been covered almost exhaustively already by my teammates on the Bloggerhead Kingbirds, Andrew, John, Christopher, Mike, and Nate.  So, without further ado, [...]

I am not too sure how difficult this quiz is but I guess we will quickly find out.  Here is a single picture of a single bird and your job is to guess what it is in the comments.  Obviously guesses like “duck” of “goose” are not specific enough (literally: we are looking for a [...]

Of course it has been months since Patrick of The Hawk Owl’s Nest was fortunate enough to win the 10,000 Birds / Wildside Nature Tours contest for an “Endemic Dash” through Puerto Rico but it is just now that the results of that contest are really becoming apparent…

Though one would think that the recent decision by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge banning the city of Los Angeles “from subsidizing or promoting the trap-neuter-release program until environmental studies are completed” would have at least temporarily stopped the animosity between those who think domestic animals belong outside and those who think nature should [...]

Yes, the Superbowl of Birding was an absolute blast and I will be recounting in exquisite detail the day the Bloggerhead Kingbirds had in a future post, but for the moment it will be enough (I hope) to recount our day before the Superbowl of Birding, that is, this past Friday, 29 January.  After all, [...]

By the time this blog post publishes I will be in a minivan with Andrew and John heading north and east to compete in the Super Bowl of Birding!  Along the way we will likely be stopping to look for previously reported rarities so hopefully we will have lots to blog about upon our return.  [...]

The New York Times has a rather fluff-filled article on the infamous Fresh Kills Landfill in Staten Island becoming a birder’s paradise.  Here’s hoping that the park stays more wildlife refuge than picnic ground so it truly has a chance to become worthwhile grassland habitat.

This is a sentence with a link to the really good blog post.  This is a sentence in which I wish I had written the referred to really good blog post.  This is a sentence in which it is explained that the really good blog post has placed Coyote Crossing on the top of the [...]

This will be the last post using material from the pelagic trip I took over a week ago, but I think I might have saved the best for last.  Northern Gannets Morus bassanus are an amazing bird to watch, especially from a boat where one can see them up close in their element.  On the [...]

Like Jochen did in his recent struggle with an absurdly good photographer I debated whether or not to link to this post with one picture.  But, really, I felt that 10,000 Birds readers would be best served by seeing it.  Just promise to come back.  Please?

Magnificent Frigatebird Blog reports that Mark Obmascik’s The Big Year is being turned into a movie starring Owen Wilson, Dustin Hoffman, and Jack Black.  Now this could be interesting…

Did you have a nice weekend?  Did you enjoy watching the Jets and Colts, Vikings and Saints?  Looking forward to the Super Bowl showdown between the Saints and Colts?  Well, slow down for a second and tell us what your best bird of the weekend was.
Of we three 10,000 Birds bloggers Mike undoubtedly had the [...]

Despite being the borough that is home to Williamsburg, where irony goes to die, Park Slope, which obnoxious doesn’t even begin to describe, and, worst of all, the Christmas Bird Count that stole half of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge from the Queens County Christmas Bird Count, Brooklyn isn’t all that bad.  There are some top-notch [...]

Does the fact that we just lived through the second-hottest year on record and the hottest decade on record mean anything to you?  Or will you keep sticking your head in the increasingly-hot sand?  Granted, a single year’s or a single decade’s numbers aren’t solid evidence of anthropogenic global warming but please shut up about [...]

On the pelagic trip off the coast of New York this past Sunday one of the highlights of the trip was seeing the small and graceful Black-legged Kittiwakes swoop into the chum, grab food, dodge the larger gulls, and maneuver back out of the crowd, all without seeming to expend any real effort.  Rissa tridactyla [...]

…but there is a new claim of an Ivory-billed Woodpecker sighting, this one with a picture.  Unfortunately, all that has been released so far is a press release.  I guess we’ll have to wait to see what it is a picture of…

We here at 10,000 Birds are unsure how today became Penguin Awareness Day (though some jingoists think it’s National Penguin Awareness Day) but here we are, being aware of penguins.  Enjoy Charlie’s marvelous photos of Motherly Love Penguin-Style and remember the sad day when Silo and Scrappy broke up.

Though it may sound like Dick Cheney’s fondest dream - putting fifty-plus fanatics on a boat for eight hours in the Atlantic Ocean in the middle of winter with a storm coming - in this case it was not torture.  In fact, this specific group of fifty-plus fanatics not only wanted to be on a [...]

Robert Frost, the four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, was able to find meaning in the most minor of topics in his poetry.  Whether one prefers “Mending Wall,” “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening,” or “The Road Not Taken” one will recognize that Frost could turn even the most mundane of events into an amazing [...]

A recent trip to Jamaica Bay in the wind and cold was not very birdy and what birds I did see were mostly frantically feeding on whatever they could find.  A large flock of European Starlings Sturnus vulgaris was no exception and I watched and digiscoped quite a few starlings feeding on Winged Sumac Rhus [...]