How highly do you value a three-day weekend? For me, time of year exerts a significant impact on the worth of extra days off....

Tubenose. No, it’s not part of a Shakespearean insult. Tubenoses are seabirds that belong to an order called Procellariiformes (from a Latin word for...

Jeff Gordon is now just over one year into his reign as the President of the American Birding Association. We here at 10,000 Birds...

Snowy Egret (Egretta thula) photos by Larry Jordan (click for full sized images) While visiting Arcata Marsh a couple of weeks ago, I had...

One common feature of the relationship between early explorers and colonists and the birds of the New Worlds was the tendency of said explorers to name birds after familiar...

Now that there are 7 billi0n of us on this planet, it seems appropriate to look at and appreciate other great big collections of...

Most birders, myself included, hope to find a rarity or two on every birding outing. This does not happen, of course, because rarities are,...

The odd climate patterns lately have conspired with my already suspect grasp of phenology to completely baffle my sense of season. As I’m sure...