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Where Are You Birding This Fourth Weekend of January 2010?

January 21, 2010 by Mike 15 Comments

I’d love to wax philosophic about January and weekends and nature, but I’m too busy packing. So let’s cut to the chase… I can’t...

I and the Bird

I and the Bird #117

by Mike No Comments

Blog carnivals traditionally place the emphasis squarely on the contributors. The role of the host is to respectfully curate the contributions, adding sufficient panache...

News

Today Is Penguin Awareness Day

by Corey 2 Comments

We here at 10,000 Birds are unsure how today became Penguin Awareness Day (though some jingoists think it’s National Penguin Awareness Day) but here...

Birds

Benevolent ID Challenge: Black Bird of Mystery

January 20, 2010 by Mike 5 Comments

I give up! Readers of this blog are simply TOO gifted in the arena of avian identification. Corey can continue to try to stump...

Trips

New York Pelagic

by Corey 12 Comments

Though it may sound like Dick Cheney’s fondest dream – putting fifty-plus fanatics on a boat for eight hours in the Atlantic Ocean in...

Inspiration

Robert Frost’s “The Oven Bird”

January 19, 2010 by Corey 4 Comments

Robert Frost, the four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, was able to find meaning in the most minor of topics in his poetry. Whether one...

Birding

Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of January 2010)

January 18, 2010 by Mike 20 Comments

How was your weekend? Did you have a better one that the Arizona Cardinals or Baltimore Ravens, both of whom washed out of the NFL playoffs?...

Birds

Diabolical ID Challenge: A Shadow of a Chance

January 17, 2010 by Mike 8 Comments

You lords and ladies of armchair avian identification really feasted on our last ID challenge, didn’t you? Apparently, that duck wasn’t as tricky as...

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