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Bill Thompson III, also known as Bill of the Birds, will be leaving 10,000 Birds because he just can’t keep up with the vigor of bird blogging at the fast paced, deadline-driven environment of 10,000 Birds. Or maybe it had something to do with rasing a family, having a day job, and trying to get some books [...]

The event that I am most looking forward to at the 15th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival is the “Noon Blog” that I will have the great pleasure of facilitating. I love meeting other nature bloggers and have had the great pleasure of birding and otherwise spending time with a host of other [...]

Let’s have a warm welcome for Donna Lynn Schulman, who will start in her role as the Book Review Beat Writer tomorrow morning.  Donna’s posts will appear on the second Friday of every month.  Just make sure you stay quiet when reading her posts because she is, after all, a librarian!  Want to learn more [...]

We are sad to say that two of our beat writers, one of whom joined in the first group and the other of whom joined in the second wave of beat writers, will be leaving 10,000 Birds. Jory Langner, our excellent Avian Quizmaster, will puzzle us one last time in October before hanging up his [...]

Kudos to Andrew, a Pacific Northwest birder who has been building a mighty presence on the web over the last two years. Have you encountered Burdr on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Tumblr, or on its handsome home blog? I’m impressed!

It is one thing to read the scribblings of a birding celebrity, a field guide author, the birderati.  It is another thing entirely that is happening here, now, on 10,000 Birds.  You see, we have scored the most incredible coup ever in the history of the bird blogging world.  Ladies, keep your underwear and optics [...]

The Beat Writers at 10,000 Birds are perhaps the single greatest conglomeration of nature writers ever to be assembled in the history of the internet.  We are pleased to announce that such a stellar crew of scribes has yet another impressively talented member interpreting the natural world for the readers of 10,000 Birds.  That’s right, there is [...]

The bane of North American birders in spring is the painful malady known as “warbler neck” that is caused by spending too much time staring nearly straight up into the tree tops trying to spot the colorful creatures that we all want to see.  Fortunately we here at 10,000 Birds, after exhaustive and exhausting research, [...]

It has been almost six months since we introduced the Beat Writer concept to 10,000 Birds.  Since then there have been some major changes here at the ol’ blog and we thought it was time to update everyone as to where we are at with this grand experiment in group bird blogging.  After all, if [...]

It is with great sadness that we share the news that Charlie will be leaving 10,000 Birds. Charlie Moores has been vital to the success of 10,000 Birds over the years. While we wish he could stay, he’s moving on and will be sorely missed. Of course, you will be able to follow his adventures [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Way back in 1960, on 29 July to be exact, a time before personal computers, rap music, cell phones, fax machines, and a host of other modern distractions, Charlie Moores came into the world.  Back then Harold Macmillan was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Dwight Eisenhower was President of the United States, Dag Hammarskjöld [...]

Sunday morning, early, I left my house and made way via bus and train to Jamaica Bay, the premiere birding destination in Queens, where Mike, in from the wilds of Rochester in upstate New York, and I had agreed to meet.  The sun was shining strongly, and by the time I arrived at Jamaica Bay [...]

The birding world has celebrities, celebrities that we at 10,000 Birds like to call birderati, and sometimes one is lucky enough to meet them.  On Monday morning I received an email letting me know that one such member of the birderati, Tim Appleton, co-founder of the British Birdwatching Fair and manager of Rutland Water Nature [...]

With many, many, many apologies to Wallace Stevens, who does not deserve what I am about to do to his most famous poem, here is my take on the Superbowl of birding, which has been covered almost exhaustively already by my teammates on the Bloggerhead Kingbirds, Andrew, John, Christopher, Mike, and Nate.  So, without further ado, [...]

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 [...]

On Saturday I met up with Patrick, that nice guy from The Hawk Owl’s Nest, at Jamaica Bay for some birding.  Unfortunately, the birds seemed to have missed the memo or something, because they were not there to meet up with us.  That actually is not quite true: I am just a spoiled birder who [...]