A new year, like a fresh canvas, presents an infinity of possibilities. Birders celebrate the spirit of a new year like no other enthusiasts,...

What qualifies a bird to be included in the top-5? My first criterion was that I observed it only once during the year 2018....

Here is my list of birds for 2019:   295 species as of 7-24-2019 1 Black-bellied Whistling-Duck US-AZ 13-May-19 2 Snow Goose US-AZ 12-Jan-19...

Compiling this 2019 year list in late April, after my 3-week  birding tour of Thailand and Malaysia in February and early March (ABA/Tropical Birding),...

Happy New Year, 10,000 Birds readers and writers, listers and photographers, friends and fellow travelers near and far! Writing a post scheduled for January...

It’s 2019! Happy New Year! What was your first bird of the year? Share it, and the story, in the comment section. Hopefully, it...

Of all the ducks in the world scaup are the worst. They are unattractive, ubiquitous, and uninteresting. Whether they are Greater Scaup or Lesser...

This past year may have felt like it lasted a grueling decade or more, but 2018 only spanned 52 weeks. As usual, we each...