Friends, birders, countrymen (and women)– lend me your ears. I come not to praise winter, but to bury it. Those of us occupying the...
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Change is in the air, isn’t it? All around the world, satisfaction subsides as an inevitable restlessness sets in on a cellular level. If...
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To twitch or not to twitch… that is the question facing many listers in the northeastern United States this weekend. The directionally-challenged Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch that...
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Nick Lund, formerly at birdDC and then the Birdist, should be no stranger to readers of 10,000 Birds. He’s previously shared his surprisingly strong feelings about the...
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Some weekends are sublime and others mundane. Obviously, we cannot survive one transcendent weekend after another, but this stretch of late winter seems to require...
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Late winter, or second winter, or whatever you want to call it, continues its slow march into March. A week ago, a classmate eagerly...
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Feel the damp scent of spring (or the spicy tang of autumn for those of you on the austral side of the Earth) in...
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I’ve been traveling for the last little while, a trip down south on business followed by another throughout Nunavut. The logistics of traveling in...
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