Welcome Wednesday is that special day of the week where we invite you to share your insight, excitement, and angst about issues pertaining to wild birds and birding. If you’ve got something to share about conservation, birds, or birding, feel free to contact us about writing a Welcome Wednesday post.

The following article, written by Monica Engebretson, author and senior program associate at Born Free USA, appeared on Opposing Views (http://www.opposingviews.com/) earlier this month and provoked a fire-storm of comments. Should we be re-posting it here? The article is well-written and discusses some very important issues concerning avian welfare; Monica is a well-informed, committed conservationist [...]

As we wrote the last time Chrissy Guarino provided a guest post, she is our “most prolific guest blogger” and with blog posts like these, well, we’re glad about that!  This is the second time Chrissy has written about banding Northern Saw-whet Owls on 10,000 Birds but this time she is focusing more on the [...]

“Malta’s War against Birds”
Written by Andy Gibb (http://pokerbird.blogspot.com/)
23 September 2009
 
 
Malta’s War Against Birds
 
What you won’t see in any travel brochure: “Watch magnificent birds of prey that have flown the length of Europe blasted out of the sky. See those that only have their legs blown away die slowly from being unable to land. Marvel at [...]

Suzie Gilbert is a wildlife rehabilitator in the Hudson Valley of New York State.  She is also the author of Flyaway: How a Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings, an excellent read that we reviewed and recommended.  To make a long story short, in Flyaway there are several incidents described in which [...]

A week or so ago (time is flying by so fast these days it may have been months ago or yesterday I’m no longer sure) we were contacted by Duncan Wright, a Wikipedia editor asking us if we’d post an article on 10,000 Birds on the merits of Wikipedia as a birding resource - too [...]

Chrissy Guarino is our most prolific guest blogger, having shared one story after another with the readership of 10,000 Birds.  In this post she shares her experiences trying to identify birds off the coast of Peru and while hiking to Machu Picchu (without an expert bird guide) from the 14th to the 24th of July.  [...]

Shai Mitra is a birder-extraordinaire, a wonderfully patient teacher, a member of the New York State Avian Records Committee, and editor of The Kingbird, the peer-reviewed publication of the New York State Ornithological Association.  He was also nice enough to give directions to good birds in Suffolk County when a pair of bird bloggers headed [...]

This report on The Razorbills’ day at the World Series of Birding was submitted by Hope Batcheller, the impetus behind the New York State Young Birders Club.  In it she details the day’s efforts, efforts that were hopefully supported by at least some 10,000 Birds readers (you can still support the team for more info [...]

There are many wonderful things that happen when you join the world-wide community of nature bloggers, but one of the most valuable is that you get to share thoughts and discuss ideas with other bloggers - people who invariably have skills and knowledge that you yourself don’t. ‘Puerto Rico Month’ is proving that to [...]

Whilst the posts in our ‘Puerto Rico Month‘ theme have so far concentrated entirely on the islands’ avifauna, our intention right from the planning stages has always been to cover as much of Puerto Rico’s bio-diversity as possible. The archipelago is home to a huge range of important and threatened animals and plants, and we’re [...]

This guest post is written by Hope Batcheller, a young dynamo in the New York State birding scene.  In it, she asks for support for The Razorbills, a team of five keen teenage birders (who probably don’t want to be referred to as “keen”).  Please support them, because, well, teenagers who are not mugging little [...]

Mesoamerican Month at 10,000 Birds has been better for all of us thanks to the photos of my friend from Guatemala, Renato Fernández Ravelo. Renato, a distinguished naturalist, photographer, and author of Birds: Guatemala’s Feathers, has already contributed stellar shots of a Steller’s Jay and Resplendent Quetzal. When I recently received a brief but poignant [...]

In January 10,000 Birds held a ‘Parrot Month’ theme (http://10000birds.com/tag/parrot-month), and I’m ashamed to admit one of the posts I didn’t get around to formatting - not because it wasn’t any good but because it was so long - was written by Nick Sly, erudite and learned author of the Biological Ramblings blog, who has [...]

Chrissy Guarino is an ace upstate New York birder who has written guest posts for 10,000 Birds before.  Whether she is writing about the coming spring, chasing an elusive Ross’s Gull or helping to band Northern Saw-whet Owls she knows how to tell a tale.  This one is no different…
I bought my dad a 10,000 [...]

We’ve been talking quite a bit about parrots and Guyana lately. One woman with a passion for both and a fascination with the natural world rivaled only by her eloquence in sharing it with others is Julie Zickefoose. You probably know Julie through her artwork, her NPR commentary, or maybe even the heavenly Letters From [...]

When we started organising Parrot Month we wondered (a little anxiously) how it would be recieved by our fellow bloggers: month-long, organised themes might not be seen as a “blog thing” (we think it is obviously, but not everyone might agree). Turns out we needn’t have worried. We’ve been truly inspired by the generosity of [...]

We’ve never been this close to having an official National Football League Bird Bowl, meaning a Super Bowl played between two teams named for birds. With three of the four teams battling it out in the playoffs this weekend, we’ll never have a more auspicious opportunity for the following post by Nick Lund. I’ve been [...]

Some months ago we here at 10,000 Birds learnt about Charleen Turner, and her amazingly patient (and loving) documentation of a pair of Mute Swans and their cygnets that she’d been watching through the summer. Charleen had a gift for telling a story and had taken hundreds of photos too - a combination that seemed [...]

It’s Saturday.  That means it’s time for the answer to last Wednesday’s “A Doozy of a Just For Fun Avian ID Quiz“.
This last quiz was a bit different from previous quizzes.  I hope you enjoyed it.
First of all, thanks and congratulations to the following folks who either answered correctly or agreed with those that did: Rob, Mike [...]

It’s Saturday.  That means it’s time for the answer to Wednesday’s “Just For Fun Avian Quiz“.
Here are the clues again…
Five things you probably didn’t know about this species:
* Many thousands pass through the James Bay area Canada in late summer.
* May migrate up to 5,000 miles non-stop (that’s longer than most commercial flights ).
* Surprisingly, [...]