Sometimes a species just stops you in your tracks.  So it was with a superlative, breeding-plumaged, male Scarlet Tanager today at Jamaica Bay.  Now...

As regular readers of 10,000 Birds already know, I am enamored of my Queens list. So when a Red-headed Woodpecker was reported on Thursday...

In North America there is really only one duck that could even come close to competing with the Wood Duck for the title of...

Things you may not know, but should: 1.) There is an International Festival of Owls. 2.) They give out a “Champion of Owls” award....

If I see either of two things I officially declare that spring has sprung. One of them, my first migratory Eastern Phoebe of the...

In my first trip to the West Indies, I learned that the Bahamas boast an impressive array of wild native doves including the Caribbean...

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...

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...