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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 [...]

The idea that tiny songbirds that weigh far less than the change found in the average pocket manage to migrate 600 miles across the Gulf of Mexico was long considered fanciful.  It was assumed that a few, at most, might make such flights, but most birds were thought to be circum-gulf migrants rather than trans-gulf [...]

There are penguins and then there are penguins.  This particular penguin, a Gentoo Penguin Pygoscelis papua, is one heck of a brave (or foolhardy) penguin.  Watch as it literally jumps onto a sea lion seal, a sea lion seal that is none too happy about being used as a trampoline, I might add.  I know [...]

Jeff Bouton has shared a great video on the behavior of a pair of Eastern Screech Owls in his yard.  It is well worth watching the entire five minutes. …

Via Kim, The Curious Birder, who posted this great video on Facebook.  If this doesn’t make you laugh or at least grin, well, 10,000 Birds will give you your money back… Have a nice weekend…hope it goes better than the kayaker’s goose encounter did!

Dale Forbes, with whom I was lucky enough to travel to Kazakhstan this past May (that’s him in the sunset picture in the linked post), now works directly for Swarovski Optik.  As part of his job duties he has a series of videos up on YouTube in which he gives digiscoping tips (I know, I [...]

Back in September 2004, I reviewed what has remained my favorite instructional birding video of all time, Watching Warblers by filmmakers Michael Male and Judy Fieth. This extravaganza of eastern North American wood-warblers included a preview of its sequel, Watching Warblers WEST. Unfortunately, Male and Fieth hadn’t concluded production of that video in 2004. It [...]

I just heard from filmmaker Penny Lane about her fascinating new video about European Starlings. That’s right, I said starlings. Sure, the European Starling ranks up there as one of the most obnoxious exotic avians to invade North America. Sure, they’re a blight on crops and offensive to anyone unfortunate enough to park beneath a [...]

This planet of ours is impossibly vast, as those eager to bird the length and width of it might attest. Watching birds in a new territory can be a tense affair; if you don’t spot and identify that tody-flycatcher during your brief stay in a distant land, YOU MAY NEVER GET ANOTHER CHANCE! There are [...]

The world loves a warbler. This is only natural, as the recipe for attraction calls for equal parts beauty and elusiveness. Wood-warblers are certainly brilliant specimens of passerine pulchritude. The 53 North American species of the family Parulidae present a riot of colors and patterns: rich golds and subtle blues, eye stripes and wing bars, [...]

The first holiday Sara and I came out as certified birders, we received a myriad of birding accessories. Of all the gift we received that year, the one we enjoyed most, the one that we go back to years later, has to be the DVD box set of The Life of Birds by Sir David [...]