Carara National Park isn’t just any old protected area. It’s one of the top birding hotspots in Costa Rica and Central America. Actually, it’s...

Leaf peeping carries a special connotation for those of us more interested in what is flying amidst the foliage. But many parts of the...

It’s been a head-scratcher for quite some time.  What’s with the yellow-shafted Northern Flickers in the eastern U.S. bearing some orange feathers? (As in the photo above,...

In the most of Europe, Brown Bear is a mythical creature that lives only in mediaeval tapestries and folk tales. It has become extinct,...

I recently wrote a short story here on 10,000 Birds about one of our endemic species, the Belding’s Yellowthroat, Geothlypis belding beldingi. and its...

I’m back! Back to the site, and back from 6 weeks in Africa (with four weeks gloriously cut off from any news of an...

It was odd to realize that with a temperature of 85 degrees F and a breeze, I felt like “fall” had begun in Northwest...

One downside to birding in autumn–certainly not the only one–is how almost everything you see heading south is something you caught earlier in the...