…so here’s a post about some birds at a spring. Okay, that’s a fairly weak way to start a post. I’m sorry. Second week...

Once upon a time the average bird on Earth was a rail. Before humans spread across the oceans of the world, wiping out huge...

New Zealand has one of the direst records of extinction is modern times, second on really to Hawaii in terms of bird species lost. I’ve written...

It’s a mini-Africa Week  at the moment on 10,000 Birds, with Adam talking about spectacular bee-eaters in his post and James discussing the diminutive...

Kapiti, a predator free island near Wellington that I’ve spoken of before, came close to receiving another mammalian invader recently. Fishermen out near the island spotted a possum riding a...

As 10,000 Birds’ New Zealand beat writer, I sometimes should write about New Zealand birds, but today I thought I’d talk about a bird...

While most readers will be enjoying some measure of nice weather up north here in Wellington we are currently being lashed by one of...

Life is hard for baby birds, as the world is filled with reasons why they might not make it too adulthood. Starvation and predators...