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There were many excellent entries in the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil: The Pantanal & Cerrado of Central Brazil giveaway.  As promised, one winner has been chosen at random from all entries that followed the rules and were submitted by the deadline. And the winner, determined by assigning each entrant a number and using [...]

The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds (read Corey’s review) is undeniably one of the most exciting and innovative bird guides to come along in a long time.  I for one couldn’t wait to get my hands on this book, loved it at first sight, and appreciate it even more after a month’s study. How about [...]

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it is that time again!  Time to give away a wonderful book on 10,000 Birds!  This offering is actually hard to part with: a copy of Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil: The Pantanal and Cerrado of Central Brazil signed by both John Gwynne, who managed the project, and Guy Tudor, [...]

The winner of a copy of Gulf Crossing (reviewed here) is Becky from Delaware.  Gulf Crossing will be in the mail tomorrow!  Congratulations to Becky and thanks to both Jackson Childs, who provided a copy of his movie for the giveaway and to everyone who entered.  Keep an eye out because the next 10,000 Birds [...]

Jackson Childs was kind enough to supply a copy of Gulf Crossing: An Essay on Bird Migration, the movie he wrote, produced, and narrated, to give away on 10,000 Birds.  If you have no idea what I am talking about you can read my review and then come back and enter the giveaway.  Or you can [...]

Summer really is quiet. I loved Life List: A Woman’s Quest for the World’s Most Amazing Birds, the biography of Phoebe Snetsinger written by Olivia Gentile and thought you would too. After giving Life List a glowing review, I announced a giveaway that straddled both 10,000 Birds and the Nature Blog Network. So we had [...]

While we love blathering on about life list around here, one that I wrote about last week was all about someone else’s life birds as opposed to my own. But what a life list it was! Of course, I’m talking about Life List: A Woman’s Quest for the World’s Most Amazing Birds, the biography of [...]

It was extremely difficult to decide a winner of the Corvus: A Life with Birds giveaway.  Five stellar entries were received and all are deserving of victory but there can only be one winner.  Fortunately for this overworked and underpaid blogger I got to remove a couple of the entries from competition based on technicalities [...]

It has been awhile since I reviewed Esther Woolfson’s Corvus: A Life with Birds (I liked it), but the American edition has just been published by Counterpoint Press and, fortunately for you, they have agreed to work with 10,000 Birds to give away a copy of Corvus: A Life with Birds to one of you!  [...]

Thanks to the good, generous folks at Houghton Mifflin, we had two copies of the exciting new Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America to give away. There was an easy way and a hard way to win. We already announced the winner for the former. Now let’s talk those canny, courageous souls who [...]

So you want a free copy of the Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, don’t you? Of course you do. The question is how you can get one. Well, thanks to our friends at Houghton Mifflin, we are giving away two copies of Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America. My question [...]

You’d think that a person’s centennial, even a posthumous one, would be easier. The long-awaited newly revised Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America is released to the avid masses almost 100 years to the day after the Great Man himself was born and yet, the world did not spin off its axis. Humankind [...]

I found Jonathan Rosen’s The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature so magnificent that I’ve been celebrating it for the last month. So have many of you! We’ve had a splendid string of collaborative activities starting with an inspiring photo gallery of birds in flight. We followed that with thoughtful commentary [...]

You’ve probably heard that old saw about how it’s better to give than to receive. What if you could do both? That’s what wheelers and dealers call win-win. Well, what if I told you that you could win a free copy of The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature by Jonathan [...]

D.H. Lawrence was definitely on to something when he declared that, “Birds are the life of the skies, and when they fly, they reveal the thoughts of the skies.” In sharing your photos of birds in flight, you’ve revealed of course that you’re interested in a free copy of The Life of the Skies: Birding [...]

One of the reasons I consider The Life of the Skies to be an Important Birding Book (caps to denote timeless majesty) is that Jonathan Rosen issues some thoughtful yet truly provocative statements. One really has to marvel at an author who asserts with such confidence that “Everyone is a birdwatcher” or that “Birdwatching is [...]

The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature by Jonathan Rosen is a truly remarkable book possessed of a depth and breadth well beyond the usual birdwatching fare. While we’re not in a position to put a copy of this book in the hands of everyone who would enjoy it, we can, [...]