Is Sandy Komito’s record 745 species or 748? And how is it tabulated?   There is a fascinating (to obsessive listers) discussion on the...

10,000 Birds now has 4,000 posts in the archives.  Go on, explore them!

The breeding grounds of the Blackthroat Luscinia obscura have been discovered in the Qinlang mountains of China’s Shaanxi Province. The seven singing males were...

Sickos and poor shots, rejoice!  The Pennsylvania House of Representatives, in all of its infinite wisdom, has shot down a bill to ban “pigeon...

Or is it that they just love corporate money so much? Either way, this session of the 112th Congress has seen the House of...

Now this is a bird worth seeing!  Get yourself to Hiwassee Wildlife Refuge in Meigs County, Tennessee!

Hey, fishermen (and fisherwomen)! Please, please, please properly dispose of your fishing line, hooks, lures, and sinkers.  If you don’t you are helping kill...

More than 4,000 migrating Eared Grebes came to ground in Utah with calamitous consequences, apparently mistaking large parking lots for bodies of water. Thousands...