The answer to this week’s quiz is one of my favorite shorebirds … “Sanderling”.  Someone once told me that it plays tag with the waves, which is the thing that most attracts me to them. The following quotes were the clues.  I’ve included the references. 1. No subspecies recognized. “The Shorebird Guide”, by , O’brien, [...]

A bit of history … the idea for this quiz started a few years ago when Corey, Mike, Will and I participated in the annual Muckrace, held in upstate New York.  While having breakfast, the day after the race, I started browsing through Mike’s various field guides.  Having some fun, I started reading sentences or [...]

QUIZ ANSWER Too many zeros.  I cannot count. You write, you edit, and you edit, and you edit.  And still something gets through that is an error.  I have now learned to respect journalists a great deal more.  Writing on deadline, with many facts.  Kudos to them, a Bronx cheer for me. And so, I [...]

Given the holiday season, I imagine that birders aren’t sitting by their computers taking difficult quizzes.  We’re out birding and partying. And returning those non-birding presents so we can purchase that glossy new bird guide for that trip we so very much want to go on.  And recovering from a late New Year’s Eve, followed [...]

First of all … repeat after me:  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20.  There, was that so hard?  It was too hard for me too!  I cheated, copying the entire post into Word and did a FIND.  And to think I [...]

I guess I should apologize for this quiz up front.  Special note to Corey, Charlie and Mike … I request that you do not strip the “quizmaster” epaulettes from my decorative 10,000 Birds jacket for posting this quiz. A few years ago I flew on Southwest Airlines from my hometown near Albany NY to a [...]

Congratulations to all who participated in this quiz.  Some great answers.  Here are the clues and a bit of an explanation. 1.    No clue.  If you read the words BEFORE the clues, you will see: “working up my appetite”.  This could be better written as “whetting my appetite” perhaps? A “smallish” quiz. 2.    “A kleptomaniac’s [...]

Hello again 10,000 Birders … it’s GREAT to be back! It has been nearly two years since my last quiz.  A major house flood, two graduations, much travel and insufficient birding for me since that last post in Feb 2009.  I trust you have all been doing much more birding than me. And I know [...]

This will be the last Jory-written quiz for awhile while he and his family recover from a horrendous flood that destroyed the interior of their home.  Hopefully, the legions of fans he has accumulated while serving as the 10,000 Birds’ Quizmaster will be patient and keep visiting, and, once he is ready to write some [...]

As always, the “Just for Fun Avian ID Quiz” is brought to you by Jory Langner, our esteemed Avian Quizmaster, who is being a bit lazy this week… Turn the table on the quizmaster.  This week’s quiz is short. Make up a quiz question and post it in the comments. If you see a quiz [...]

As always, the “Just for Fun Avian ID Quiz” is brought to you by Jory Langner, our esteemed Avian Quizmaster. Boy oh boy, what a quiz.  As soon as I sent it to Corey for processing (thanks Corey!), out comes an email from the CayugaBirds listserv with the same exact question.  I guess Cayugans read [...]

As always, the “Just for Fun Avian ID Quiz” is brought to you by Jory Langner, our esteemed Avian Quizmaster. Sometimes you learn some avian trivia from non-birders.  The information on this week’s quiz comes from my wife Hope, who is a non-birder.  She pointed out this term to me while she was reading Sunday’s [...]

As always, the “Just for Fun Avian ID Quiz” is brought to you by Jory Langner, our esteemed Avian Quizmaster. On a personal note, this year I’m conducting a “Little Year”.  No snickering please.  I consider it a hybrid, half Big Year (seeing as many species as possible) and half small carbon footprint (local to [...]

As always, the “Just for Fun Avian ID Quiz” is brought to you by Jory Langner, our esteemed Avian Quizmaster. Brrrr.  It’s cold out there.  It’s winter in North America now, no time for long quizzes, no lounging around in the park or on your back porch.  It just cold and time to be quick [...]

It’s Friday.  That means it’s time for the answer to Wednesday’s Just For Fun Avian ID Quiz #12: A Tale. Happy New Year from the Quizmaster!   And that’s just one more clue to this quiz.  Can you get the answer now? A quick review.  The question was to determine what these three phrases meant: – [...]

As always, the “Just for Fun Avian ID Quiz” is brought to you by Jory Langner, our esteemed Avian Quizmaster.  Though, to be honest, after this quiz we aren’t sure how much longer he will be the quizmaster (we think he might have lost it, though we do appreciate the sentiments in the first paragraph [...]

As always, the “Just for Fun Avian ID Quiz” is brought to you by Jory Langner, our esteemed Avian Quizmaster.  This quiz will not have an answer post, because, well, it really doesn’t need one. And if you don’t know what bird Jory is describing here, well, go back through the last week of posts [...]

The answers to the Just For Avian ID Quiz #10 are, as always, provided by 10,000 Birds’ own Avian Quizmaster, Jory Langner. It’s Saturday.  That means it’s time for the answer to Wednesday’s “Just For Fun Avian ID Quiz #10″. The quiz name should have been “Coolest Quiz Yet”.  It has the most startling information [...]

As always, the “Just for Fun Avian ID Quiz” is brought to you by Jory Langner, our esteemed Avian Quizmaster.  And don’t expect help from the rest of us at 10,000 Birds on this quiz: we are surely as confused as you! This quiz is quite different and is fully obfuscated.  I’d suggest relaxing, getting [...]

As always, the “Just for Fun Avian ID Quiz” is brought to you by Jory Langner, our esteemed Avian Quizmaster. It’s Saturday.  That means it’s time for the answer to Wednesday’s “Just For Fun Avian ID Quiz #9″. Congratulations to all who attempted and answered this quiz.  It seems that everyone had the correct species [...]