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 [...]

Welcome to 10,000 Birds! With so many new visitors arriving every day, we felt an overview of the site might be in order. After all, we wouldn’t be very gracious hosts if you showed up here and we didn’t take the time to give you a tour, would we?
First, a bit of history. [...]

Bird watchers of the world, your t-shirts have arrived! Well, at least some of them have. We are excited to announce the first run, collector’s edition, ever so stylish 10,000 Birds t-shirts.

Charlie’s motto, “Sleep can wait… I’m going birding!” is undoubtedly shared by many of you. Let the world know that you have your [...]

August 2007 was another action-packed month here at 10,000 Birds! Shorebirds seemed to be the flavor of the month as Corey and I visited Montezuma NWR (here and here) and Jamaica Bay WR (here, here, and here) among other places, while Charlie shared images of tasty water birds from the deserts of Oman. Even better, [...]

Congresha of Earth House Hold has tagged us with his Birding Meme. While we try to refrain from excessive meme-blogging, this one is well within our collective wheelhouse. Let’s have at it!
1. What is the coolest bird you have seen from your home?
Mike - Most definitely the occasional Bald Eagle visiting NYC from its wintering [...]

Amidst all the frenzy of our recent summer activity, mostly work related, I neglected to observe a most auspicious date. On August 11, 10,000 Birds turned 4 years old!
That’s right, this blog has been kicking around for four fabulous years, which in blog years seems like four decades. And, if I may be so bold, [...]

July 2007 was another amazing month on 10,000 Birds. The big news was not that I hosted the fifth Carnival of Colors (though that was fun) but rather that I hosted the 2nd anniversary edition of I and the Bird! Two years of collaborating with the finest nature bloggers in the world deserves at least [...]

Lorelle VanFossen is a font of inspiration for bloggers everywhere, particularly those who work in WordPress. I like her because she’s creative, logical, fond of traveling, and wont to link to 10,000 Birds every now and again. Her latest link to this humble blog was the setup for one of her beloved Blog Challenges, which [...]

Since both Charlie and Mike have weighed in on different aspects of this whole transition from individual blogs to group blogging on 10,000 Birds I figured it was time I threw in a couple pennies worth myself. It’s great to be blogging here!
When I started my blog way back in February I was mostly [...]

Like everyone else with a blog, we’ve been tagged with the insidious Eight Random Things meme. Snail, Patrick and Amy are to blame. The rules, as if you don’t already know them, are as follows:

Players write a post with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
At the end of that post, they “tag” eight bloggers to write [...]

Mike’s post of a couple of days ago, Three Reasons why Group Blogging is Great, drew an interesting comment from Birdfreak’s Eddie Callaway who suggested that one drawback to group blogging may be that it “could possibly hurt an individuals identity“.
As one of two ‘former individuals’ to have joined 10,000 Birds I thought it [...]

Now that 10,000 Birds has over a week of group blogging under its proverbial belt, I’d like to comment on what I see as the three most significant advantages to the collective structure. Don’t worry, you’ll get a chance to weigh in later…
1. More Content
The week after we switched from a single author site to [...]