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Mention that you’re interested in watching birds in Western New York, and someone will invariably ask you if you’ve been to Braddock Bay. The question makes sense, as Braddock Bay is synonymous with high quality ornithological research in New York west of Sapsucker Woods. Most locals have visited the Braddock Bay Raptor Research hawkwatch platform, [...]

I bet you do! I recently heard from Chris Kirkby, the Managing Director and Principal Investigator at Asociacion Fauna Forever, a Peruvian not-for-profit organisation based in Lima and Puerto Maldonado, about a series of bird-banding workshops being held this June and November in the rainforests of Tambopata in south-eastern Peru. Longtime readers of 10,000 Birds may [...]

I had a completely different post planned and tossed it out the window this morning over my coffee as I watched the birds out my window.  I have an especially interesting bird in my hipster Minneapolis neighborhood, a Cooper’s Hawk.  A Cooper’s hawk in and of itself may not be the most exciting bird on [...]

Bird banding (or ringing if you’re in the Old World) is considered one of the most effective ways of monitoring avian population, migration, and species diversity. Some authorities argue that capture, tagging, and subsequent recapture is the field biologist’s most important tool for enumerating and quantifying the status of wild populations. But is there a [...]

As we wrote the last time Chrissy Guarino provided a guest post, she is our “most prolific guest blogger” and with blog posts like these, well, we’re glad about that!  This is the second time Chrissy has written about banding Northern Saw-whet Owls on 10,000 Birds but this time she is focusing more on the [...]