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As a bird blogger in these days of the social-media-heavy internet it is important to properly calibrate your blog’s social media presence. Too little material appearing on Facebook, Twitter, and Google + and your blog is likely to not get the attention it rightfully deserves.  Too many links posted all over the place and your [...]

Did you know that 10,000 Birds might, at any given moment, publish a post that could change your life?!? True, most of our commentary on birds, birding, nature, conservation, travel, and anything else on our hyperactive minds don’t qualify as truly transformative, but you’ll no doubt find it all informative, entertaining, and thought-provoking. Plus, we often feature killer [...]

I went to a place and I saw a bird.  Then I went to another place and I saw another bird and several of another species of bird.  Then I saw a really cool bird.  Then I saw some more birds.  Finally, I saw a bunch more birds and then I went home. -Way too [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Inspiration arises from the simplest of things. Who would have thought that a far-flung group of photographers sharing inspiring images of our ever-changing atmosphere would coalesce into a site that aggregates hundreds of sky shots every week? Congratulations to the entire Skywatch Friday team as well as its founder for creating and cultivating such a [...]

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 [...]

My colleague leavesnbloom over at the Nature Blog Network posted a really useful and cogent look at Copyright and Plagiarism. I learned quite a bit from it. If you’ve got a blog that you want to protect from scrapers, aggregators, and outright content thieves, you’ll want to read this ASAP!

If you’re a British birder, or a birder looking in to British birding, you could be forgiven sometimes for feeling it bears all the hallmarks of a good soap opera depending on where you surf. Every new rarity seems to elicit a storm of controversy; they (the birds) are either elaborate hoaxes organised by a [...]

To help fill the void that all of us need filling now that I and the Bird has sung its swan song I thought it might be helpful to take a look around the bird blogosphere and find the current compilations of links that everyone likes so much.  There are lots of bird and nature [...]

Many times over the last couple of days a blog reader viewed a page on 10,000 Birds.  One of those readers, whom we sadly have no way of identifying, provided 10,000 Birds with our 5,000,000th page view!  Thanks, readers!

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Pity the plight of the blogger! Blogging, particularly nature blogging, is a tough business. The challenge of standing out among the countless other blogs in your niche can be daunting. Even if you do develop a following, you’ll have to contend with stagnant readership, limited comments, technical troubles, and content doldrums. The truth is that [...]

Christopher from Picus Blog tagged me with the six random things meme awhile back and I have been very lazy in actually doing it.  And then I figured I could be lazier still by making Mike and Charlie each give me two random things and leave myself with one-third of the things to come up [...]

Seeing as this is the last month of a pretty great year here at 10,000 Birds, I thought I would celebrate December of 2008 by trying to write the month in review in verse.  This might really suck but it might be good too…but before I get into that I’d like to wish everyone a [...]

Though my ABA life list is up to 435 birds and my international list somewhat north of that (I’ve really got to get that sorted out) there are still dozens, if not hundreds or thousands of birds, I really, really want to see.  And now that Dakota has tagged me with a meme that requires [...]

Stevie Wonder delivers a dire warning in his classic, Superstition: When you believe in things that you don’t understand, then you suffer. What happens when you blog with things you don’t understand? Think about it… of the millions and millions of bloggers out there, how many can get under the hood and perform tasks more [...]

November of 2008 will go down in history as the month that the American people regained their sanity and elected a President of whom we need not be ashamed.  A minor footnote to some future history might also mention how great a month 10,000 Birds had in terms of traffic: it was our best month [...]