Some months ago we here at 10,000 Birds learnt about Charleen Turner, and her amazingly patient (and loving) documentation of a pair of Mute...

Do you feel it in the air? The last whispers of summer are slipping away. Many of us grow wistful this time of year,...

Chapter 1 of Birdtopia can be found here, in which the narrator, George, finds and identifies a dead chickadee, reveals his crush on Lisa,...

The morning sun shone through the sticker-laden kitchen window and warmed me as I prepared my breakfast.  The burner on the electric range, powered...

Roger Tory Peterson commands respect. His legacy is not simply that he made the world a better place but that his works changed, and...

It’s hardly a secret that we love coots around here (the birds, not senile old men!) We love them in their magnificent diversity from...

Wednesday was my birthday, one that has deposited me on the yawning precipice of the big 4-0. This year’s observance was low-key but Sara...

Emily Dickinson is one of the first poets I can remember admiring. I’m not sure whether it was her near rhymes, her life story,...