We here at 10,000 Birds are firmly on the side of those who want to keep cats indoors. The American Bird Conservancy has been...

Tubenose. No, it’s not part of a Shakespearean insult. Tubenoses are seabirds that belong to an order called Procellariiformes (from a Latin word for...

Jeff Gordon is now just over one year into his reign as the President of the American Birding Association. We here at 10,000 Birds...

Snowy Egret (Egretta thula) photos by Larry Jordan (click for full sized images) While visiting Arcata Marsh a couple of weeks ago, I had...

I’ve never hid my disdain for how the Duck Stamp skews perceptions of who uses and supports public refuges in the United States. Thankfully,...

One common feature of the relationship between early explorers and colonists and the birds of the New Worlds was the tendency of said explorers to name birds after familiar...

Now that there are 7 billi0n of us on this planet, it seems appropriate to look at and appreciate other great big collections of...

Paging through a fieldguide, it’s always with a sense of dismay and sadness that I come across reference to an extinct species. This is...