Birders know why Alaska is known as The Last Frontier. Because when you’ve painstakingly built your life list over the years, visiting the corners...

The 19-teens were not a good time for North American birdlife. Not more than four years following the final breath of the last living...

Rightly or wrongly, there’s an hierarchy of extinct birds in North America, in the United States in particular.  Each offers a portrait of a...

There’s no species of bird more associated with the North American desert than Greater Roadrunner.  Just mention the bizarre giant ground cuckoo and you...

Way back in January, my wife and I welcomed our second child into our family. Savvy readers of 10,000 Birds and mostly defunct (but...

For a community that prides itself on rising early, it’s never been easy for me to roll out of bed earlier than 7. So...

There’s no doubt about it, we North American birders have it easy. Our warblers are impossibly colored. Our chat is big and weird. Our...

I saw my first Swainson’s Warbler in eastern North Carolina, along the Roanoke River near the town of Weldon. The story is etched into...