I’ve been reading Bernd Heinrich’s Summer World lately and was struck by his description of the song of the Red-winged Blackbird as “oog-la-ee.” For...

The New York Times has the story of this most improbable of discoveries.

At the tail end of my birding expedition today I was fortunate enough to have a close encounter with an extremely confiding, cooperative, and...

Short, sweet, and to the point.

This is a nice short article about the Short-tailed Shearwater and its connection to Australia, Alaska, and the Aboriginal community of Boonwurrung.

We here at 10,000 Birds are grateful to those companies that buy advertising on 10,000 Birds. While no one at 10,000 Birds is getting...

Disbelief probably seems like the proper response to the idea that there are woodpeckers in New York City.  After all, woodpeckers peck on trees,...

I recently took a walk off-trail at Papscanee Island in Rensselaer County, New York, taking advantage of deer trails to find my way through...