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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 blogworthy. Turns out we needn’t have worried. We’ve been truly inspired by the generosity of some top-class bird bloggers who’ve handed reams of text and some world-class [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]

Nick Sly is an ornithologist, recently graduated from Cornell and cast into the real world. He is currently located in Venezuela, in his first field job out of school, helping a Cornell PhD student, Karl, with his dissertation on vocal communication in Green-rumped Parrotlets. This population of parrotlets is located on one of the many [...]

Debra Ross is the publisher of KidsOutAndAbout.com, a web site for parents based in western New York State. She’s also the proud winner of one of our exciting book (and iPod) giveaways! She recently wrote about the acquisition of a new field guide has affected her and her two daughters, aged 7 and 8, for [...]

Stacy Mote of Phenix City, Alabama is an environmental consultant that gets to bird for a living (lucky!) but she spends time off-duty as a weekend warrior scouting out local birding hotspots. As a birder, she tells us, you can never stop learning! Here, she shares photos of her first dramatic sighting of a gorgeous [...]

Jean M. Loscalzo is a resident of Queens and has been kind enough to not only show Corey around Forest Park a bit (and give Corey and Charlie a ride not so long ago) but she has also agreed to share this article with the 10,000 Birds readership. The article first appeared in the newsletter [...]

“Visions of cloud forests with limited visibility, rain forests with dripping trees, snakes, slippery trails, mosquitoes, and spectacular birds. Take all the birds in North America and place them in a country the size of West Virginia, and you have some idea of the density of the birdlife in Costa Rica.” Guest author Jack Cole [...]

Steve West is an English birder who has lived in Catalonia, Spain for the last 20 years, dedicating much of that time to finding the birds of this biodiverse region and showing them to others. Steve is the author of the website, BirdingInSpain.com which offers free itineraries, checklists, and other resources and has written two [...]

By now, Christine Guarino, a regular Welcome Wednesday contributor, needs no introduction. If you don’t know who she is, you can get an idea by reading her previous contribution about banding owls and her tale of chasing an elusive gull. And we 10,000 Birds bloggers think her phrase “unambiguous amphibious” is pretty freaking cool. When [...]

Curt McDermott is a birder in Orange County, New York. He has an amazing array of feeders up in his small suburban yard that attracted an amazing bird and flocks of birders this winter. As of this posting the bird is still being seen daily. Curt has been a gracious host to the birding hordes [...]

Alison Kent, also known as Pica, works as a designer, writer, and editor at the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center. She has been posting a sketch of a bird (almost) every day since August 2007 on Bird by Bird. She also has another blog which she shares with her partner Allan, also known as Numenius, [...]