I’m writing this post a day late (sorry) from Itasca State Park, Minnesota. Over the last few days we’ve traveled from the Twin Cities...

I learned a new word today: Diel. I’m a little embarrassed that I didn’t already know that. I will now use the word in...

I was told when I first started blogging here at 10,000 Birds that I was never to use the short form, “10K.” But here...

Birds are a subset of dinosaurs (See: Honey, I Shrunk the Dinosaurs. Prior to the extinction of all of the other dinosaurs, resulting from...

What is H5N2 Avian Influenza? H5N2 is a bird influenza virus that is making news. This mainly affects domestic fowl, and in this sense...

Ecology is amazing. We see interrelationships between plants, animals, and other features of a biological system that can be very complex and in various...

I was going to have something for you this month about the dinosaur-bird thing, but I never got to it. The gallery at Analiese...

We are on the threshold, just stepping across it really, of understanding one of the most important evolutionary events that ever happened. I speak...