I was a week into my trip to the Peloponnese, in south-west Greece, and my bird list had stagnated on 40 species. So one...

We are birders. All of us are, or we wouldn’t be meeting here on 10,000 Birds quite so frequently. Birds rule our world. The...

May has long been my favourite month of the year. The days are longer and warmer, flowers fill the meadows, and the birds are...

Monarchs. They’re practically honorary birds – beloved, much written about, rather visible and charismatic in their stripey larval form and spectacularly so as vivid...

How do you solve a problem like the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB)? With all due respect to Maria von Trapp, combating the greatest infestation...

Mike photographed this Unmarked Dagger (Acronicta innotata) at his family’s annual “Chicken Inferno” in 2009. Wonder what he’ll find this year! Are you a birder who...

While exploring the grounds of Wildsumaco Lodge on the east slope of the Andes in Ecuador I came across a rather large bug lying...

When I was a child, we called them locusts. They appeared sometime between when we started to worry about the water level in the...