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Monsoon Madness, Southeast Arizona

By June 9, 2010 1 comment

We’re thrilled to have Naturalist Journeys, the Small Group Birding and Natural History tour company based out of Arizona, as our newest advertiser. My fetish for travel is well-known so it should come as no surprise that I asked Peg Abbot, the head honcho at Naturalist Journeys, for a glimpse into one of her most excellent AZ [...]

Feeding Tree Swallow Fledglings

By April 14, 2010 22 comments

We here at 10,000 Birds love our Welcome Wednesday guest posts – partly (we admit) because it means that we don’t have to fire up our few remaining brain cells and write something ourselves, but mostly because readers send us some REALLY good posts and some REALLY good photos and we’re delighted to have the [...]

Patrick’s Puerto Rican Adventure

By March 10, 2010 1 comment

May 2009 was ’Puerto Rico Month‘ here at 10,000 Birds, the celebration of which culminated in a giveaway of a free ‘Endemic Dash’ tour courtesy of Kevin Loughlin and Wildside Nature Tours. The fortunate recipient of that holiday was longtime friend Patrick Belardo of The Hawk Owl’s Nest. Now that he’s unpacked his adventure, we’re the fortunate ones. Here, Patrick [...]

The Kaka Nestor meridionalis

By March 3, 2010 6 comments

Duncan Wright, who lives in Wellington, New Zealand’s capital city, has contributed a guest post before (in Aug 2009, Birding Wellington, NZ) packed with superb photos and birds that – frankly – some of us had never even heard of! When Duncan mailed me last week saying that he thought I “might enjoy showing some [...]

World Wetlands Day on the Highveld

By February 10, 2010 2 comments

Last year I was fortunate enough to visit Ursula Franke of the South African Crane Working Group (SACWG) at the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT), who took me on a fantastic tour of Chrissiesmeer, a hugely important wetland site in Mpumalanga with some 270 lakes and pans located with­in a 20 km radius of the village. [...]

Birding Kuwait

By January 13, 2010 9 comments

South African ex-pat Mike Pope is Chair of the Kuwait Ornitholigical Records Committee (KORC), runs the excellent Birding Kuwait website, is a superb photographer (genuinely, his photos are as good as most of those published by professionals – see below – and are posted on his website at 800px wide so every detail is there [...]

Should Birds be Kept as Pets?

By November 18, 2009 17 comments

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 [...]

Exodus: The Migration of Saw-whet Owls in North America

By November 11, 2009 6 comments

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 illegal hunters: an eyewitness writes…

By September 24, 2009 3 comments

“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 [...]

Wild Bird Rescue 101

By September 9, 2009 16 comments

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 [...]

Birding Wellington, New Zealand (Part One?)

By August 27, 2009 11 comments

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 [...]

Birding Peru While Not Birding Peru

By July 31, 2009 6 comments

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.  [...]

Learning the Common to Find the Rare

By July 3, 2009 7 comments

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 [...]

The Razorbills at the World Series of Birding

By May 20, 2009 4 comments

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 [...]

Filling the gap left by DeBooy’s Rail

By May 13, 2009 3 comments

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. We’re gratified that we’re getting so much input [...]

Falling Silent? The Eleutherodactylus Frogs of Puerto Rico

By May 12, 2009 6 comments

Puerto Rico is home to a huge range of important and threatened animals and plants, and we’re very grateful to Alberto López-Torres  for this excellent post on the (mostly) endemic Eleutherodactylus genus of frogs – known to every Puerto Rican as ‘coqui’.   ‘Falling Silent? The Eleutherodactylus frogs of Puerto Rico’ Alberto López-Torres Although this [...]

Razorbills at the World Series of Birding

By April 22, 2009 2 comments

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 [...]

7 Colores

By March 25, 2009 6 comments

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 [...]

Parrot Bio-geography and Evolution

By March 11, 2009 6 comments

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 [...]

10,000 Birds T-shirts Are Magic!

By February 11, 2009 5 comments

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 [...]