In September 2021, I wrote for the first time here about one of the great birding spectacles in my region. As our summer rainy...

If reading this header you think of Gary Larson, your thinking is not unlike mine. However, this is not what this post is about...

Last weekend hosted many of the international organized bird watching festivities, but every weekend offers the opportunity for avian observation excitement. What did you...

The Great Bowerbird bowers around Broome don’t last forever despite their solid construction. We have extreme weather during our wet season with cyclonic winds...

Located about 2 hours from Xining by car, Qinghai Lake is China’s largest lake. It has some interesting characteristics – its high elevation at...

The slate of birds available to the ardent birder in a particular place is a constant cycle of regulars, not-so-regulars, visitors, rarities, and vagrants....

During my time writing for 10,000 Birds, I have made no secret of my love for salvias — especially Michoacán’s native salvias. In fact,...

It was a rainy Sunday. After a day full of house projects, my husband, toddler, and I felt jittery, desperate to be outside before...