What qualifies a bird to be included in the top-5? My first criterion was that I observed it only once during the year 2018....

Happy New Year, 10,000 Birds readers and writers, listers and photographers, friends and fellow travelers near and far! Writing a post scheduled for January...

It is always very hard to choose a “best bird of the year” and often I have resorted to several “best birds”. We have...

The end of another year is nigh. In Costa Rica, we know it by way of windy nights with clear skies, slightly cooler temperatures,...

I screamed “UralOwlUralOwlUralOwl!!!”, all the time pointing with my right hand while holding the steering wheel with my left, and the hardest thing, keeping...

Well, another New Year crept up on us once again and once again I will commit to listing on the website! This all started...

And so it begins! What I am referring to my “Little Big Year”. Let me be quite clear here, my 2018 will not really...

I had an amazing birding year in 2017 with tons of travel, lots of amazing birds, and some truly memorable experiences. But 2018 is...