The last time I visited the San Diego Wild Animal Park, which is the breeding facility affiliated with the San Diego Zoo and a...

Over recent weeks we have been out to check on the local ephemeral lakes. These lakes vary from year to year depending on how...

Happy Christmas to all the readers and writers on the good ship 10000 Birds. Having survived the Triumvirate’s cat o’ nine tails thrashing during...

Christmas Eve Eve dawned cold and relatively clear.  It also dawned windy, with steady winds from the northwest around twenty miles per hour and...

This year’s Christmas Bird Count in Queens was a very different experience for me than the last two.  I was in a completely different...

Driving down Rupert Road you will undoubtedly see lots of birds as you make your way toward the Anderson River Park entrance. As you...

Hummingbirds are just way too cool.  And Ecuador just has way too many of them.  It is almost unfair that one country should be...

On a recent scouting trip to the Ecuadorian Amazon we were searching for conservation projects where bird watching tours could be offered.  We did...