Happy New Year, 10,000 Birds readers! For my first post of 2021, I’m going to reach back to a review originally published six years...

There are owls in New York City. Big owls: Barred Owls on Riverside Drive and down the path from Harlem Meer, a Great Horned...

Penguins! Penguins here! <pause> Do I have your attention now? There are few bird names that will elicit great big smiles and Penguin is...

A bird of prey showed up in the tiny park across the boulevard from me yesterday, setting himself down on a park bench and...

One good thing about birding during a pandemic–the forced restrictions on place and time translate into more time to observe what birds do. And...

“A stick! A stick!” With the pure energy of an almost two-year-old freed from weeks of isolation, my granddaughter was running across an empty...

“Look around, look around…” The refrain is from Hamilton, a demand and a plea to look with the brain and the heart and then...

Be careful how you Google ‘bird of paradise’! Type it in and you’ll find articles about a showy South African plant, trailers for two...