Who Reads 10,000 Birds?

This is a slightly self-centered post – less about birds and more about the 10,000 Birds website. You have been warned.

The site counts about 1000 unique sessions per day – in the last 30 days, on average 1006, to be exact – some days a hundred more, sometimes a hundred fewer.

Who reads 10,000 Birds? A slight majority of visits (56%) come from the USA, where 10,000 Birds was founded. Unsurprisingly, three bigger English-speaking countries come next – the UK, Canada, and Australia, followed by South Africa. China and Germany account for the largest number of visitors from non-English-speaking countries, though the Netherlands substantially punches above its weight (despite or perhaps because of the horrible photos Peter occasionally adds to his posts).

And of course, there are visitors from many other countries – 181 in total, including 3 visits from Syria within the last month (one would think they have more important things to do at the moment, but I am not complaining).

Currently, we publish one or two new posts per day – but that is nothing compared to the archives of 10,000 Birds, which by now hold more than 10,000 posts (we probably should have had some kind of celebration when reaching the number 10,000, but we forgot).

Finally, who writes for 10,000 Birds despite the nonexistent salary? Currently, our website lists 19 writers – 4 of them post weekly, 5 biweekly, 4 monthly, and another 6 whenever they have something to say (for the regular writers, this is not a concern). 6 of them are based in the USA, 3 in Germany, and 2 in the UK. Then, there is a long tail of countries with one writer each: Canada, China, Gibraltar, Mexico, The Netherlands, Panama, Serbia, and Trinidad&Tobago. 5 are female and 14 are male, a ratio probably not so different from that among birders.

I have no reason to believe that the information in this post would make anyone want to join our team of writers but if I am wrong, please contact us.