I don’t know about you, but one of my favorite features on 10,000 Birds, one you can’t appreciate through our rss feed, is actually the header. Specifically, I love our randomly rotating triptych of bird photographs. Each one links to a cherished trip report or photo gallery. If you haven’t indulged yourself yet, waste enjoy [...]

10,000 Birds has just launched a fan page on Facebook!  This is in addition to our Networked Blogs page on the ubiquitous social networking site.  So, how do you become a fan of ours on Facebook?  Simple: just join Facebook (if you haven’t already) and click on the grossly-enlarged badge below.  Or just search for [...]

I spent an excellent day yesterday at Portland Bird Observatory and Radipole Lake RSPB Reserve with old friend from way back Richard Crossley, ex-pat Brit, Cape May resident and co-author of the The Shorebird Guide and now well on his way to finishing what could be North America’s best ID guide (more of all of [...]

I just had to post an email which dropped into my inbox earlier today: the latest variation on the well-known Advance Fee Fraud or ‘Nigerian’ 419 scam email - you know, the one where someone offers to share or send you 20million dollars in return for a small deposit, a small fee, and all your [...]

The Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper Eurynorhynchus pygmeus is one of East Asia’s most enigmatic and threatened shorebirds. Breeding only on the Chutotsk Peninsula of eastern Russia southwards to the isthmus of the Kamchatka peninsula, staging on the tidal flats of the Yellow Sea, and wintering in south-east Asia the species was probably never abundant because [...]

Some of you who regularly read this blog will recall my recent outing with Patrick after which I surmised that New Jersey birders coming to bird in New York were cursed.  You may also recall that in that same post I mentioned that we would have a chance to break the dreaded Jersey Curse in [...]

So here we are, we bird bloggers, four years after the inaugural I and the Bird (well, four years and one month…we seem to have forgotten to celebrate on time).  Four years is a long time in the real world: in the blogosphere it is an eternity!  Like many of the folks who contributed a [...]

I was sent an email last week by a visitor to the blog who’d found one of the posts I’d written for Puerto Rico Month and wondered how he could find related posts. The simple answer - and one that many bloggers would give - is to use the supplied ‘tags’. I emailed my new [...]

Our recent mini-debate on hunting and conservation (eg Mike’s post on Duck Stamps at Time to buy a Duck Stamp…or not, mine on Dove Hunts in Argentina at Fur and Feather Shoot, and a general post about Birdwatchers and the American Economy) has naturally enough stirred up the emotions and brought forth some interesting comments. [...]

One of the dilemmas of having a popular blog (in bird blog terms anyway - Arianna if you ever feel like rubbing some of your magic off on 10,000 Birds let me know) is that you reach a point where - to an extent - the blog has gone beyond just being somewhere to record [...]

We posted a link today (in the Asides section) to an ‘e-petition’ run by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) which calls for the halting of uranium mining close to the Grand Canyon. We post quite a few of these links and I have no idea at all whether anyone follows them or not, or [...]

May was ‘Puerto Rico Month‘ on 10,000 Birds and - hopefully - we managed to provide some quality and interesting content (we certainly tried anyway). I guess we’d probably be fooling ourselves though if we didn’t admit that the most exciting feature of ‘PR Month’ was the offer of a FREE ‘Endemic Dash’ holiday on [...]

Okay, we’ve had unborn babies and re-united twins on 10,000 Birds in the last few weeks - and now we’re doing houses…yes, it’s another non-birdy post, but I hope readers will forgive me because I woke up in a Wiltshire paradise today, and after the stresses of moving (box after box after box after box [...]

I not sure how interested anyone will be in this - but as Corey’s lovely post of his unborn birder-to-be was greeted with the delight and congrats it deserved, I’ve decided to press ahead…

Regular readers will have noted that I’ve been a touch quieter than usual on the blog. The reasons? I’m in the middle [...]

When we put out the call for the first 10,000 Birds Summer Intern, many of you assumed by my usual flippancy that we were less than serious about the idea. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The three of us are eager to impart some of the lessons we’ve learned during our tenure as [...]

Almost a year ago I began a post describing a visit to the UK by one of the best bird bloggers on the net (the wonderful Carrie Laben of Great Auk - or Greatest Auk?) with the words. “If I visit a blogger somewhere and they don’t write about it within a few days I [...]

Birding guru Kenn Kaufman left a very interesting comment on our post about Richard Crossley’s upcoming new book (which I very deliberately titled ‘Could this be North America’s best ID Guide‘ as perhaps it could be if the text - which I’ve not seen - matches the excellence of the plates) in which he [...]

Our Puerto Rico Month is almost over (having said that we’ll probably keep it going for a while yet as I’m really enjoying writing about an island I knew virtually nothing about and which turns out be so darn interesting!), and I’m extremely grateful to Mike aka Noflickster, author of the wonderful The Feather and [...]

Pity the plight of the blogger! Blogging, particularly nature blogging, is a tough business. The challenge of standing out among the countless other blogs in your niche can be daunting. Even if you do develop a following, you’ll have to contend with stagnant readership, limited comments, technical troubles, and content doldrums. The truth is that [...]

I think we could be talking about clones here, because having just posted about next September’s “Blue Planet Film Festival“, which is conceived, developed, written, produced, and directed by the inexhaustible Mira Tweti (my favourite environmental activist ‘du jour’), word comes from Tweti HQ that she - or someone who looks and sounds exactly like [...]