Birding (and listing) has given a whole new meaning to New Year’s Day. I can’t wait for morning so I can start my year list,...

What was your first bird of 2015?  Hopefully it was as cool as the Short-eared Owl above, which was my first bird of 2014!...

The Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) is the third largest woodpecker in North America if you count the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. It is smaller than the...

Outlook and goals for 2015 I started year-listing three years ago, with previous listing ambitions having been limited to my life list. While it’s...

“Thus, I give up the binoculars!” – Captain Ahab’s last words (paraphrased) I have been relatively fortunate in my birding life in that I...

Talk about ambitious! Noah Strycker, author of The Thing with Feathers and Among Penguins, will be doing a world-wide Big Year in 2015. Rather...

Many readers of 10,000 Birds are more than the casual birdwatcher…they are hopeless bird junkies. Truly depraved birding addicts. It may not take long...

And that’s a wrap. The calendar year 2014 has just about run its course. It’s all over but the year bird counting, so take...