My wife and I are, in one way, very unusual Americans. While our compatriots seem only to want to visit Mexico’s touristy beach cities,...

EBird really knows how to push my buttons. I mean that in a good way: By automatically showing one’s new year list each January...

I recently received a kind letter from a 10,000 Birds friend, who was worried that my recent irregularity in contributing to this website might...

Recently, I wrote about my many and fortunate interactions with biologist friends in 2021. I mentioned taking an ornithologist friend to the nearby property...

The fall of 2022 turned out to be a good time for birding and me. But I didn’t do a very good job with...

Way back in 2014, when I saw my first Chestnut-sided Shrike-Vireo near the little town of Pino Real, and shared the sighting on a...

Our relatively-recent trip to Spain and the Middle East was, as expected, a great opportunity to see new birds. In the end, it gave...

The 10,000 Birds universe has undoubtedly been shaken to its very core recently, because it has been over two weeks since I last contributed...