It starts with a flight, then another, then another, then still, one more – to then realise that the island you’ve just landed on...

When writing about pittas, even the normally rather reserved HBW sounds more like to a teenage Taylor Swift fan than a neutral scientist: “Elusive...

Those of us who have lived long enough to see significant changes to bird populations will have personal recollections of this or that species....

Continuing our hike from the Karwendel (covered in my last post), my friends and I descended into the Isar river valley and hiked up...

One of the first birds I remember seeing was a Green Woodpecker. It had landed on our neighbours’ lawn, and I was invited round...

Two weeks ago, I wrote here about what may end up being my Bird of the Year for 2024: a Lesser Ground-Cuckoo which gave...

We are birders. All of us are, or we wouldn’t be meeting here on 10,000 Birds quite so frequently. Birds rule our world. The...

Seasoned readers of 10,000 Birds probably already know the drill: A post showing an exaggerated AI-created illustration means we are asking for new writers....