Just the other day, a middle-aged lady approached me in the supermarket, near the organic vegetable section. “Aren’t you that beat writer on 10000birds?...

It’s easy to explain why birders find owls such as fascinating group: no other family of birds presents such a challenge to the observer....

It’s a sometimes-painful fact of life that some fruits are easier to cope with as food than others. This condition applies to making fermented...

It’s Christmas Bird Count season, and if you know Christmas Bird Counts you have probably heard the tale of how Frank Chapman invented this...

Christmas morning I looked out my window and saw something I had only seen once before in my backyard, a Phainopepla! I watched as...

How many species have I observed this year? The malicious eBird answers: only 186! Yuck! Yes, I know, I’ll reach 190, but 200? No...

(All respectable publications should have their holiday traditions. This evergreen post, first written in 2004, has become a 10,000 Birds staple. Merry Christmas!) Everybody...

The broadbills are always a family* that birders visiting South East Asia want to see, and who could blame them? They usually take up...