I first remember being introduced to the field of island biogeography in a dark, empty lecture hall at Oregon State University in an advanced...

Most birders refer to some bird species as their nemesis. That is what we call a bird we probably should have seen already, but...

In the Pronojiwo area of East Java, there is an unassuming hide at the edge of a village. It hosts two species of kingfishers....

Sulawesi has two species of hornbills. Both are more or less endemic to Sulawesi (give or take a few islands nearby), and both are...

I’m sitting on the edge of the Doñana wetland in south-west Spain. The sea mists have driven into the coast but it’s mild. As...

I visited Vilanculos once with my family, mainly to do the things most people do when visiting this site – enjoying the coast, eating...

This post was originally published on September 25, 2010. It is republished in our new “From the Archives” series, by which we want to...

What kinds of posts do we have on 10,000 Birds, and when are they published? Probably not a question many of you will ask...