Unlike cavity nesting ducklings which hatch precocial (eyes open, covered with down and ready to go), most cavity nesting birds hatch altricial. They are...

Snail Kites photo by Corey There’s something for everyone in this week’s bird news—gotta get ’em all! First off, does your injured bird need...

Every time I travel into a new area, I try to do my due diligence and have a pretty good idea of what bird...

When I was a kid, I used to spend all summer on Kennebago Lake in Maine. My siblings and I would swim, hike, read,...

The dog days of summer are upon us though here at 10,000 Birds we call them bird days. This despite the heat and humidity...

On our recent camping trip away that saw us going as far south as Burra Rock Conservation Reserve we travelled the highway south from...

The irony of birding in tropical forest is that although there are literally hundreds of bird species, a pretty high percentage of them are...

Amy Evrard has a PhD in social anthropology from Harvard University and loves to write about human relationships with nature. But that makes her...