Back when we used to run the 10,000 Birds ID Clinic (as opposed to just answering lots of e-mails about bird identification!), we received...

The Great Egret is a great bird.  With a dagger attached to a head that has glaring eyes and distance from body as its...

Yellow-crowned Night Herons have a presence about them when they are hunting that reminds me of Buddhist monks.  If “The greatest prayer is patience,”...

    This is all you usually see of a shitepoke. They’re shy.   My father had stories he’d tell, time and time again,...

It is not every day that one gets to explore Central Park with a friend, birder, and first-time visitor to the Big Apple.  It...

Last week the most amazing thing happened-a Striated Heron Butorides straita came into our garden! Now we don’t live far from the coast, especially...

Here at 10,000 Birds we have already reviewed Watching Sparrows, Watching Warblers, and Watching Warblers West.  Somehow, we never got around to reviewing Watching Waders,...

During a family holiday this week, my wife suggested that other road users and pedestrians may take my erratic driving and sudden stops as incompetence behind...