The moment birders everywhere have been waiting for is almost here.  No, it is not an epic morning of birding full of a host...

Robert Gallardo is well-known to many readers of 10,000 Birds as an outstanding Neotropical nature guide, author, and manager of La Chorcha Lodge. He...

The verdant Appalachian Mountains, North America’s concerned forehead, stretch from the northern parts of Georgia all the way to the fir covered forests of...

A plant in South Africa, commonly called Rat’s Tail but referred to by scientists as Babiana ringens, evolved a perch for birds to use while...

Labor Day weekend has passed, the kids are back in school, and it is now (un)officially autumn in the United States no matter how...

You are wandering through a tropical rainforest. It is late morning and the humidity seems to rise with every step. Life is crawling, buzzing,...

Remember that Emperor Penguin that showed up in New Zealand?  Have you wondered what it is up to?  Wonder no longer!  You can follow...

“Purple Martins” first appeared in print in Carl Sandburg’s 1920 collection of poems, Smoke and Steel, published six years after he rose to prominence...