It is said that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.  This March 10,000 Birds both came in and went out like a lion: we broke our records for most visits and page views in a month!  Big news this month included Charlie getting well over the halfway point of [...]

Since I started blogging, my relationship with the many magazines in my life has become a lot more complicated. Sometimes I’ll finish reading one with the thought that I could find much better content, perhaps even presentation, online whereas other publications inspire admiration bordering on envy. Blogs and magazines are different animals, this is true, [...]

This leap-year twenty-nine-day month has been a marvelous one for the 10,000 Birds bloggers. We got together for an historic first-ever day of birding as a group. And it snowed. And sleeted. It was fun nonetheless. We gave away two copies of Audubon Backyard Birdwatch for the Great Backyard Bird [...]

Holy cow! I’ve been blogging for a year and a day! Last Valentine’s Day during a major snowstorm I sat down and created lovely dark and deep which I cruelly abandoned when Mike asked me to join 10,000 Birds. I even deleted my first blog post which was about how I wished [...]

Up until today Mike has always written our month in review posts. He has done an excellent job. For some reason, maybe it was the threatened beatings, maybe it was the promised beers, I have agreed to shoulder the load of summarizing our month in bird blogging for your reading pleasure. So, [...]

Anyone who has browsed around our site has probably noticed the bright badges promoting Bird Top 100 and Fatbirder 500. These sites, called toplists or topsites, are designed to rank members based on pageviews or other metrics. The badges themselves record site stats for the toplists while at the same time advertising them to [...]

‘Twas the great Oscar Wilde (not that rogue Oscar Wildlife) who opined, “But what is the difference between literature and journalism? …Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.” One wonders what scathing indictment Wilde would have levied on blogs. And yet I’m sure I’m not alone in feeling extremely privileged to [...]

Just two short weeks ago, I proudly announced that one of Charlie’s posts was selected for inclusion in the anthology of the best science blogging of 2007. After a frenzied fortnight of proofing and formatting, the braintrust behind this effort have brought forth a beautiful baby book. Presenting The Open Laboratory 2007…

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In the beginning of 2007, the indefatigable Bora Zivkovic compiled a collection of 50 selected blog posts showcasing the quality and diversity of writing on science blogs in 2006. This volume, The Open Laboratory: The Best Writing on Science Blogs 2006, was not only an outstanding representation of how exceptional science blogging can be but [...]

In the last hours of 2007, as December and the year as a whole wind to a close, one can only marvel at what a month we’ve had at 10,000 Birds! One of the highlights of the month was definitely the continuation and conclusion of our BIRD: The Definitive Visual Guide Giveaway. Readers had to [...]

If you haven’t been dipping into the deep pool of 10,000 Birds archives lately you might not have noticed that all of the posts that were transferred over from my old blog, lovely dark and deep, are missing their pictures. This is because I finally felt it was time to put the poor old [...]

November 2007 has been a blast here at 10,000 Birds. One of the major catalysts has been the big, beautiful BIRD: The Definitive Visual Guide. First, I reviewed this magnum opus of avifauna. Next, we started giving copies away. In the process, readers delivered a boatload of brilliant bird limericks and some excellent recommendations for [...]

While I like to think that we at 10,000 Birds carry ourselves with a certain level of worldly maturity, our worldly wisdom is usually tempered by a certain youthful exuberance. Still, we must be making a particular impression as we were just collectively included on an all-star list of 40 Bloggers Over 40. The tastemakers [...]

Welcome to the 11th edition of Oekologie, the blog carnival devoted to the best ecology and environmental science posts of the month from all across the blogosphere. In my time and trials blogging on topics related to birding, nature, and whatever else catches my metaphorical eye, I’ve encountered countless blogs touching on issues of ecology. [...]

The carny life has been good to us at 10,000 Birds of late. In just the past few days, we’ve been included in an urban carnival (Carnival of Cities), a literary carnival (The Writer’s Block Carnival), an oceanic carnival (Carnival of the Blue #6), and, of course, the uber-science carnival itself (a fun, Halloween-themed [...]

October 2007 has been a phenomenal month for 10,000 Birds. Can you believe some (brilliant) computer science students at Carnegie Mellon identified this site as one of the top 100 most informative blogs in the world? Me neither!
Another highlight was the creation of our new photo galleries page, affectionately entitled 10,000 Clicks. If you haven’t [...]

As I mentioned earlier, my favorite part of Cape May Autumn Weekend was undoubtedly meeting so many fantastic birders. I suspect this would have been the case even if the weather wasn’t so rotten! The Birds and Beers soirée on Friday night was quite possibly the social event of the season or more [...]

Some enterprising grad students in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University just released a tasty little tidbit entitled “Cost-effective Outbreak Detection in Networks.” The authors pose a simple question: Which blogs should one read to be most up to date, i.e., to quickly know about important stories that propagate over the [...]

Nature, in all its myriad forms and illimitable glory, makes for a mighty enticing blogging topic. In a sense, blogs have become extensions of personal field notes, nodes for naturalist networking. The burgeoning swell of sites devoted not just to birds and bugs but to flora and fauna of every stripe speak to the endless [...]

Will September 2007 be remembered as the month 10,000 Birds introduced Welcome Wednesday, the soapbox from which our blogless readers can expound on issues related to birding, nature, and conservation? The three guest posts this month, When the Blackbirds Returned, Born Again as a Birder, and The Unseen, Nocturnal River of Birds respectively, were all [...]