At last, it’s spring in the northern half of the world. Birds are singing and migrating, freshets are running, and trees are budding –...

Birders deal with the summer doldrums in a number of different ways – some turn to herping, and others to dragonflies; some travel, and...

When I was a kid, and couldn’t travel, I thought patch birding sounded dreadfully boring. Now that I can travel, I have perversely discovered...

Way back in February when I was enjoying a family-and-friends vacation on New Providence in the Bahamas I wisely hired the best – and...

North of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Queens is a middle class neighborhood, predominantly Italian-American, known as Howard Beach. Named for William J. Howard,...

This is not the week for a xenophobic birder. Here at 10,000 Birds we are going to dedicate the coming week, from today until Saturday,...

We birders are very particular about the birds that we count. We can, of course, count wild, native, species. We can count vagrant species...

I was at the Blue Heron Wetlands in Titusville, Florida, during the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival hoping to connect with a Purple...