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Did you hear this incredible news? The Canadian Province of Ontario announced last week that it will conserve a huge swath of the province’s northern wilderness, the area we frequently reference as the Boreal Forest. The promise to permanently protect at least 225,000 square kilometers of the Canadian Boreal Forest has been universally lauded by [...]

You might want to drop in on the House Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans Oversight Hearing… The House Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans will hear from experts including American Bird Conservancy’s Vice President for International Programs Dr. George Wallace and others to further investigate the factors affecting stressed bird populations and bird habitats, [...]

If you are an American (or, heck, even if you are not) call Congress today to help keep the pressure on to pass the Clean Water Protection Act. Learn more at ilovemountains.

As the wonders of Spring migration start remember that many of those birds moving through North America are heading for the boreal forests of Canada. Currently, only 8% of the Canadian boreal forest is protected while 30% has been allocated for industry. Check out Save Our Boreal Birds for more information and to see how [...]

An article in today’s New York Times reports on the absurd indoor ski mountain proposal that would destroy what is perhaps Long Island’s finest grassland habitat. The development would cost over $1.5 billion (U.S.) and is opposed by many who care about the environment, particularly birders who want to see wintering Short-eared Owls and breeding [...]

birds of prey: A CNN report on the federal government’s crackdown on pigeon fanciers killing hawks and falcons. About time the mainstream media caught up to the blog-o-sphere!

For the birds I saw in Meadows Park in Temecula, California, to count for my Anti-Global Warming Big Year I need to offset the carbon dioxide emitted by my traveling there. Fortunately, there exists on the web a wide array of carbon calculators to figure out exactly how much carbon was produced getting me to [...]

has been released. The joint project of the National Audubon Society and the American Bird Conservancy includes 178 species in the continental U.S. and 39 from Hawaii on the list of most imperiled species.

The American Chestnut Foundation is working to bring the American Chestnut Tree back from the fungus that nearly wiped it out in the early twentieth century. The nuts produced by the tree are not only good for roasting, but for a wide variety of mammals and birds to eat.

have been re-established in Ontario, Canada. Maybe soon we’ll be able to count them in New York?

According to The Drinking Bird, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California, who you can contact via email here, hasn’t yet signed (and will probably veto) a bill to ban lead bullets, which are accidentally eaten by critically-endangered California Condors. More information at the Center for Biological Diversity.

Rats are responsible for more extinctions than any creature except humans. Biologists in Alaska are trying to extirpate rats from the soon-to-be-inaptly-named Rat Island, in the Aleutians. Good news for seabirds!

Today, we’re excited to introduce a new feature called Welcome Wednesday. Wednesday is the one day of the week where we invite you to share your insight, excitement, and angst about issues pertaining to wild birds and birding. If you’ve got something important to say, 10,000 Birds can be your soapbox. Contact us for more [...]

The dedicated biologists of Project Puffin endure being pooped on, dive-bombed, and nearly deafened in order to restore and protect breeding colonies of Atlantic Puffins on islands off the coast of Maine. Check out the pics with this article.

The Bush administration’s draft recovery plan for the Northern Spotted Owl has failed peer reviews by both the American Ornithologists’ Union and the Society for Conservation Biology because in drafting the plan all the best available science was not used (surprise).