10,000 Birds has just launched a fan page on Facebook!  This is in addition to our Networked Blogs page on the ubiquitous social networking...

This past Sunday was the Queens County Christmas Bird Count, my second living in the borough and doing the count.  We originally were scheduled...

I have seen Desert Finches exactly once.  They were in Kazakhstan, where they belong.  Desert Finches have never been reported anywhere in the western...

New Year’s Day birding is always so much fun.  Every bird is a new bird on the year list and the year seems wide...

Over two years ago, when I was doing a New York State Big Year, one of the birds that I tried to see but...

What was your first bird of 2010?  Let us know in the comments…and, if you wrote a blog post or have a picture of...

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...

…over Common Peafowl.  Seems that Longboat Key, Florida, has way too many of the gorgeous gregarious birds and has to continually cull the flock. ...