Are you ready for the Great Backyard Bird Count? It starts tomorrow, 18 February, and runs through 21 February. Get ready to count!
Readers of 10,000 Birds are probably uniquely qualified to understand that sometimes life gets in the way of birding. During the twenty odd years...
Birding at the eastern end of Long Island in the depths of winter, especially a winter like we have had in New York this...
According to my Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, the Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) is “fairly common” but the Barrow’s Goldeneye (Bucephala...
After admiring the gannets of Cape Kidnappers and the wine of Hawke’s Bay Nicole and I took a few days to reach the next...
If any of this ever gets accepted by a checklist committee I am going to quit. Seriously. Hat-tip to Rick Wright.
Waxwings are among the most beautiful of passerines and when one gets good looks at any of the three species that occur worldwide those...
“The most outstanding binoculars I have ever seen” and “unexpectedly comfortable and stable”. I cannot tell you how many times I have heard this...
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