I asserted in a recent post on the Nature Blog Network blog that the relationships we build offline drive our online success. Do you agree? Share your most memorable meetings with other bloggers here or at the original post. Photo from the first time Corey, Charlie and I went birding together… hilarity ensued

Looking for a place to initiate discussion or share something random yet compelling related to birds, birding, nature, or conservation? You’ve found it. Welcome to our Weekly Wednesday Open Thread! Last week’s inaugural open thread was a lot of fun, but I know we all have a lot more to share! Don’t be too rude, [...]

It may surprise some of you that we could get so excited about Poo Ponds here in Australia, but they are some of the best places to observe birds! Poo Ponds you ask….what do you mean?! Well it is where all of our water goes when we flush the toilet and take a shower. Now, [...]

(One should use a new year as impetus to try new things. Here’s one I’ve been pondering for a while…) Looking for a place to initiate discussion or share something random yet compelling related to birds, birding, nature, or conservation? You’ve found it. Welcome to our first Open Thread! Don’t be too rude, crude, or commercial. Otherwise, have [...]

I am not an expert.  At anything.  But I have been bird blogging for over three years now and I would like to believe that I have learned a few tricks of the trade that are worth sharing.  This will neither be an exhaustive post covering every aspect of bird blogging nor a lecture from [...]

Hi, folks! This is the first of what will be my monthly posts on bird taxonomy and systematics. But don’t worry, I’ll do my best to make them accessible and even fun. I first encountered 10,000 Birds back in 2004, well before the world had Twitter, Google Maps, or iPhones. (I guess we just sat [...]

Though these bloggers have been reserved for our final introductory post do not think for a second that because they are last they are least.  Far from it!  In fact, we had to save this bright bunch of bird blogging luminaries for our final announcement for fear of frightening off other potential beat writers.  This [...]

I am truly honoured to be able to write for 10,000 Birds and let you all know about a very special place for birding. You really do not have to be obsessed with shorebirds to live here, though there are a few people that are….no names mentioned! I had a chuckle to myself as I [...]

Kia ora, and greetings from Aotearoa*, the Land of the Long White Cloud. As I type this on the final day of the long weekend in Wellington the high white cloud which has covered the city for the last three days shows no sign of wandering off and finding other cities to bother. But I [...]

Get your surfboards ready bird-blog aficionados!  This wave of new beat writers on 10,000 Birds might very well sweep you off your feet and who knows on what shore you might wash up.  After introducing our first wave of 10,000 Birds beat writers last week we were drowning in the positive responses, both here on [...]

We three here at 10,000 Birds are pleased to announce that new voices are being added to our blog.  After several years of just Corey, Charlie, and Mike, we figured it was time to ease up on the torture that we are inflicting upon you and let someone else apply the rhetorical hot irons on [...]

Behold the power of plant blogging at this edition of BGR hosted by the master metablogger Bora Zivcovic. The next edition of Berry Go Round will be hosted here by me so send a link to your very best plant post sometime in the next four weeks!

The online ecosystems in which nature lovers connect, congregate, and express their fascination with all manner of flora and fauna grows richer by the day. Even in this era of abundance, certain sites engage large audiences quickly by offering special features. WeLoveBirds.org is a relatively new social networking site for bird-enthusiasts that has already attracted [...]

In this guest post Clare and Grant Morton talk about Broome Bird Observatory and Roebuck Bay, a critically important site for shorebirds on the East Asian – Australasian Flyway (a huge ‘channel’ which connects non-breeding areas in the south with breeding areas in the far north and is home to over 50 million migratory waterbirds [...]

We at 10,000 Birds have accrued a couple of honors worth mentioning in the last week. The first of these is inclusion in science.newsriver.org, a new science blog aggregator written by web hero Dave Winer. I’m not sure how many of you have followed the chaos and controversy that has beset the science blogging community, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]