Traveling back home from a California Burrowing Owl Consortium meeting last week, I stopped at the Colusa National Wildlife...

The Muscovy Duck (Cairina moschata) attracts more attention than most ducks, at least in North America. When this native...

or, in this case, a neophobic Blue Tit in a cage is also a neophobic Blue Tit in the...

Endemism is special. Patriotic birders from every corner of the globe proudly declare the number of endemics of their...

We here at 10,000 Birds believe that every bird is beautiful and, moreover, that every part of every bird...

Everyone likes to see ducklings and almost everywhere in the world the ducklings that people are most likely to...

Mallards can be dirty ducks.  Very, very, dirty ducks.  And while ducks in general are known for their hybridizing...

Years ago, Charlie Moores coined the colorful term “manky mallard” to describe the motley menagerie of feral and domestic mallards...