New Year’s Day 2014. With binoculars around my neck, I am leaving home, wondering which will be the first species on my year list....

The Eurasian Collared-Dove, as Larry has already ably pointed out, has spread rapidly across North America since its release in the Bahamas in the...

The Eurasian Collared-Dove (Streptopelia decaocto) was first released in the New World on the island of New Providence, in the Bahamas. In the mid-1970s,...

New Zealand has a very odd biota these days. There are the endemics, which are odd in their own way, and then there introduced...

Will Raup is a birder from upstate New York who helped Corey learn a lot about birds when Corey was first starting out as...

The ranger stood on the dirt road, facing south, and the rest of us, scattered about the parked safari truck, facing north and paying...

Rick Wright is a well-known birding tour guide, author, blogger, and general wordsmith. He was a Beat Writer here on 10,000 Birds for awhile,...

The squawk is unmistakable, a harsh, high-pitched cry with undertones of bass, lasting about 2-seconds, followed by a second, then a third “Squaaawwwk.”  It’s...