One essential way to heighten the pleasure of a special bird sighting is to brag about it later. Step right up and share your best bird of the weekend.
Of all the excellent early spring birds I saw at Montezuma NWR this weekend, my favorites were probably Snow Geese and Swamp Sparrows, though all those ducks were [...]

If one were to draw a distinction between birders and bird watchers — and I don’t necessarily agree that such a separation must be devised — a clear divide between the camps would be a love of listing. The general consensus is that birding and listing, like Snow Buntings and Horned Larks feeding on a [...]

It has been nearly a week since the Flying Feeder Birds Diabolical Quiz was posted so I offer my apologies for the slightly late posting of the answers.  Though, in my defense, not many of our usually intrepid 10,000 Birds readers dared to guess the identities of the birds in the three images provided. Oh [...]

As I described in my recent blog post about my walk across Queens, I was fortunate enough to have a male Ring-necked Pheasant Phasianus colchicus cross my path as I made my way through the Kissena Corridor Park.  It was perhaps the most cooperative pheasant ever; though Europeans mostly refer to P. colchicus as Common [...]

I don’t know about you, but one of my favorite features on 10,000 Birds, one you can’t appreciate through our rss feed, is actually the header. Specifically, I love our randomly rotating triptych of bird photographs. Each one links to a cherished trip report or photo gallery. If you haven’t indulged yourself yet, waste enjoy [...]

10,000 Birds has just launched a fan page on Facebook!  This is in addition to our Networked Blogs page on the ubiquitous social networking site.  So, how do you become a fan of ours on Facebook?  Simple: just join Facebook (if you haven’t already) and click on the grossly-enlarged badge below.  Or just search for [...]

In October last year we posted a series on the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper. Part Two of the series featured an interview with Christoph Zöckler of ArcCona Consulting in which he asked that if anyone wishing to go on a planned shorebird survey in Bangladesh should contact him.

Graham Chisholm, the Executive Director of Audubon California, [...]

Jez Bird, Alex Lee & Sayam Chowdhury are surveying in Bangladesh, Sayam has mailed the OB group to say, “I am extremely delighted to let you know that we found a minimum of 25 Spoon-billed Sandpipers last week at Sonadia Island (in addition to other rare wader species including 24 Nordmann’s Greenshanks and over 450 [...]

So, there I am, writing a post about the coming Spring, when I realise that in an unplanned but happy example of coordination with New York, Corey has gone and written about exactly the same thing from his own perspective. And he’s banging on about the weather too! Discussing the weather is a human condition [...]

Robert Frost, the four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, was able to find meaning in the most minor of topics in his poetry.  Whether one prefers “Mending Wall,” “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening,” or “The Road Not Taken” one will recognize that Frost could turn even the most mundane of events into an amazing [...]

About three years ago the announcement came that the Collins Bird Guide – universally recognised as the finest bird field-guide in Europe (and, apologies to David Sibley, in my opinion the best field-guide in the world full stop) – was to be updated and published as a second edition. No dates were given but it [...]

So how come, 10,000 Birds readers may be asking, are you reviewing a crime novel – and a crime novel that hasn’t even been published in the US yet? Well actually, that’s quite a good story (not as good as ‘Blue Lightning’ as it happens, but still worth telling).

At last year’s BirdFair I made the [...]

One of the most inspirational stories I’ve ever written about concerns an Italian researcher named Pierfrancesco Micheloni, who has devoted a great part of his adult life protecting a massive wintering swallow roost at Ebbaken Boje, a region of eastern Nigeria’s Cross River State (at 06° 17? N; 8° 55? E) close to the Afi [...]

With 2010 being the ‘International Year of Biodiversity’ and with me being just a little – er, cynical that what the world needs after Copenhagen is yet another unproductive talking-shop I thought I might look further forward than just to the end of 2010 and predict some of the environmentally-based cliches that people may be [...]

May 2009 was ’Puerto Rico Month‘ here at 10,000 Birds, the celebration of which culminated in a giveaway of a free ‘Endemic Dash’ tour courtesy of Kevin Loughlin and Wildside Nature Tours. The fortunate recipient of that holiday was longtime friend Patrick Belardo of The Hawk Owl’s Nest. Now that he’s unpacked his adventure, we’re the fortunate ones. Here, Patrick [...]

For some reason, maybe because of the heroic effort I have made of late to get our new apartment completely unpacked and set up, Daisy agreed to let me out of the house for a few hours Monday morning to take what is perhaps my favorite walk in Queens, which is through Flushing Meadow Park, [...]

In October last year we posted a series on the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper. Part Two of the series featured an interview…

It’s not every day that one has a discussion about a spate of recent Common Raven Corvus corax sightings in one’s home borough.  It…

For some reason, maybe because of the heroic effort I have made of late to get our new apartment completely unpacked and set up, Daisy agreed to let me out…

By Charlie March 15, 2010 No

In October last year we posted a series on the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper. Part Two of the series featured an interview with Christoph Zöckler of ArcCona Consulting in which he asked that if anyone wishing to go on a planned shorebird survey in Bangladesh should contact him.

Graham Chisholm, the Executive Director of Audubon California, [...]

By Charlie March 15, 2010 1 comment

Jez Bird, Alex Lee & Sayam Chowdhury are surveying in Bangladesh, Sayam has mailed the OB group to say, “I am extremely delighted to let you know that we found a minimum of 25 Spoon-billed Sandpipers last week at Sonadia Island (in addition to other rare wader species including 24 Nordmann’s Greenshanks and over 450 [...]

By Mike March 15, 2010 5

One essential way to heighten the pleasure of a special bird sighting is to brag about it later. Step right up and share your best bird of the weekend.
Of all the excellent early spring birds I saw at Montezuma NWR this weekend, my favorites were probably Snow Geese and Swamp Sparrows, though all those ducks were [...]

By Mike March 14, 2010 12

If one were to draw a distinction between birders and bird watchers — and I don’t necessarily agree that such a separation must be devised — a clear divide between the camps would be a love of listing. The general consensus is that birding and listing, like Snow Buntings and Horned Larks feeding on a [...]

By Mike March 13, 2010 6

How cool is this? Adventures with Birdman: Ecuador-Jocotoco Antpitta has been chosen as an official selection of the 2010 Going Green Film Festival, one of only 30 out of more than 500 film submissions. If you’ll be in the Beverly Hills area from April 2–4, you should consider supporting Birdman Tim Barksdale and the inclusion [...]

By Corey March 13, 2010 3

It has been nearly a week since the Flying Feeder Birds Diabolical Quiz was posted so I offer my apologies for the slightly late posting of the answers.  Though, in my defense, not many of our usually intrepid 10,000 Birds readers dared to guess the identities of the birds in the three images provided. Oh [...]

By Corey March 12, 2010 4

It was way back in 1973 that the AOU lumped together the Myrtle Warbler and Audubon’s Warbler, creating the Yellow-rumped Warbler, or, more affectionately, good ol’ Butterbutts, much to the dismay of listers everywhere who lost a species from their various and sundry lists.  Now, as Nate of The Drinking Bird reports, the lump might [...]

By Charlie March 12, 2010 15

Just last month we posted a link to a report that highlighted how the trade in wild animals (including birds of course) is emptying Asia’s forests, creating what researchers are calling ‘empty forest syndrome’. Two news items today (one a post on Singapore’s excellent ‘Bird Ecology Study Group’ blog and one a report on Action [..

Jez Bird, Alex Lee & Sayam Chowdhury are surveying in Bangladesh, Sayam has mailed the OB group to say, “I am extremely delighted to let you know that we found a minimum of 25 Spoon-billed Sandpipers last week at Sonadia Island (in addition to other rare wader species including 24 Nordmann’s Greenshanks and over 450 Great Knots). We are planning to visit several more potential SBS sites along the Bengal coast in the coming days of this month long SBS search.” The bad news is that Sonadia is threatened by a development…

How cool is this? Adventures with Birdman: Ecuador-Jocotoco Antpitta has been chosen as an official selection of the 2010 Going Green Film Festival, one of only 30 out of more than 500 film submissions. If you’ll be in the Beverly Hills area from April 2–4, you should consider supporting Birdman Tim Barksdale and the inclusion of a birding flick in the festival.

It was way back in 1973 that the AOU lumped together the Myrtle Warbler and Audubon’s Warbler, creating the Yellow-rumped Warbler, or, more affectionately, good ol’ Butterbutts, much to the dismay of listers everywhere who lost a species from their various and sundry lists.  Now, as Nate of The Drinking Bird reports, the lump might be undone – we may have a split coming!  Listers, rejoice!

The Cabo Rojo Salt Flats – a 500 ha National Wildlife Refuge within Puerto Rico’s Suroeste IBA – have been designated as the Caribbean’s first site of regional importance for shorebirds by the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network. The Salt Flats support over 5% of the Caribbean breeding population of ‘Snowy’ Plover Charadrius alexandrinus tenuirostris and 2.5% of the Caribbean’s Wilson Plovers C. wilsonia. Over 20,000 shorebirds congregate here too, including large numbers of Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla, Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes, Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus, and Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres. This designation should not only ensure more birds being seen in Puerto Rico, but more being seen in North America too.

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