I wish that this quiz were difficult enough to call it diabolical but I am afraid that you 10,000 Birds readers will be unimpressed...

There are foods that are not easy for the uninitiated to eat.  Pomegranate is one, especially if you don’t realize that the seeds are...

Summer, by which I mean practical summer as opposed to natural summer,  is just about half-over. I hate to remind you, my teaching friends,...

Well, maybe not forgotten, but certainly over-looked. Outside of hardcore twitchers looking for specialty birds and after speaking to thousands and thousands of birders,...

One of the things I do to earn a living is bird surveys, some for the federal government, some for private companies that want...

The IOC World Bird list proposed a number of unconventional bird names, most notably the Great Northern Loon (Gavia immer) and the Roughleg (Buteo...

My dad says he can call a Fish Crow from an American Crow on sight.  I’m not entirely inclined to disbelieve him, but I’ve...

Quiz 1 Hint: This bird is larger than a Least Sandpiper. The Great Ornithologist Felonious Jive. Perhaps you have heard of me? I am, in...