Mike Bergin
Mike giving the Conteo de Aves Arenal 2014 a major thumbs-up, while Corey makes faces and Patrick does the actual birding.
There are approximately 10,000 bird species on this beautiful planet. Initially, this site was designed to chronicle my ongoing effort to see and enjoy every one of them. Back in August 2003, I was new to birding and eager to learn all about it. Now, I’m somewhat more knowledgeable on the subject but still have a long way to go!
While much of my time is devoted to being a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, I have a major passion for nature and birding, especially world birding. Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird, Mike has also created a number of other outstanding sites and resources, including the dearly departed Nature Blog Network.
Mike and Corey listing intently for Puerto Rican Nightjars.
My family and I are based in Rochester, NY these days, but you may find me anywhere.
If you know where this photo was taken, you’ve seen some pretty amazing birds inside a massive crater!
Good birding!
Hello Mike, Sara and Family! Lovely website; thank you for this public service. My husband and I retired one year ago from our government jobs as biologists, and now live in Atenas, Costa Rica. We are helping out some rainforest/macaw conservation organizations here in Costa Rica. One of our new projects for the Rainforest Biodiversity Group is to initiate a Christmas Bird Count in the Sarapiqui region of Costa Rica, home to the endangered Great Green Macaw and many other species. Have you any suggestions for how to entice and advertise for U.S. birders to come down and participate? Any advice appreciated……..
Lorna and Darrell Smith
Atenas, Costa Rica
hey i go to Cato Meridan high school and i am doing a project on the golden cheeked warbler, and was wondering if u had done any research on them if so please let me know on my email. thanks
I am interested in volunteering in any way to help conserve birds.
My husband and I were on trip a while ago to Montana and stopped in Boise, Idaho for a night. We went to what is known as one of the
largest birds of prey conservatory in the US. It got me started in
thinking about getting involved. How can I begin?
Debbie
Debbie,
I commend your new interest in bird conservation. Birds can use all the friends they can get! I would recommend that you contact your local Audubon Chapter and see what kind of volunteer activities are offered and how you could get involved. I have volunteered for Audubon in various capacities for many, many years and know that the National Audubon Society is very dedicated to bird conservation. By the way, my sister is a volunteer docent at the Birds of Prey Center in Boise, and you are right–they are doing fantastic things! Good Luck in your new endeavors,
Lorna
I don’t know if i’m sending this correctly, but if you can see this image, what kind of plover is this? I took this photo at Bahia Gonzaga, Baja, south of San Felipe this spring….i just thought one of you might know…I love 10,000 birds !!
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Would it be possible to use your image of the Jamaican croaking gecko in an exhibit for the Little Cayman National Trust House? Of course we would credit you. Thanks!
Hi Mike
Lots of parallels. My day job for 25 years was a career on Wall Street, but my passion has always been nature. Now retired, I am a naturalist who goes into schools teaching kids about animal skulls using my collection of 60 skulls, plate tectonics, bird beaks, and about 20 other topics. A second passion of mine is mathematics. I am taking a SAT Test prep course in two weeks so I can tutor others in it. In May I co-lead an annual birding trip to Central Park/Cape May.
I found you Googling avian specialists versus generalists doing research for an April talk that I am giving at Discovery Place’s NC Science Festival on the topic of Avian Beaks & Dietary Preference. I enjoyed your article. One of the few mammals that is expanding its range is the coyote and that is because it has learned to co-habit with humans so easily.
Regards
Christopher Baldwin
Charlotte, NC
Hi Mike!
I’ve been enjoying this site for the past few years, and I want to ask you for some help today.
I write the Bob White Birder Murder Mystery series, which is published here in Minnesota by North Star Press, and we have a very special promotion this week: we are offering the newest book in the series – A Murder of Crows – as a FREE Kindle book this week only (Oct. 8-12) at Amazon.com.
The book weaves together birding, birders, murder, mystery, humor, and the conservation topic of wind farms and their impact on avian populations. I have readers all over the US who love the series, but this week, I want to reach as many new readers as possible and give them the chance to go birding with my protagonist Bob White in this new adventure. Any mention you could make of this offer on any of your networks would be SO appreciated – I would love to see a birding novel get national attention in hopes of bringing more people out to bird!
Thanks for all you do to promote birds and our natural world!
mike ! i think you should come to Indonesia, to see various kinds of here.you,probably,don’t have yet the kind of chiken,especially,green junggle fowl and red jungle fowl.Green jungle fowl only exist in Java island,and the red jungle fowl,exist from java to sumatera,malaysia.