This post was originally published on February 07, 2016. It is republished in our “From the Archives” series, featuring...

Each year, about this time, I feel the need to take up once again the matter of what our...

One of the many pleasures of birdwatching is encountering the unexpected, as I was reminded last week when out...

Experienced birders know that birding is as much about listening as it is about seeing. While 10,000 Birds has...

I know it is not a particularly sophisticated observation, but scientific species names that are just the same word...

Have you ever wondered what birds think and say about birders? Here are ten representative statements I overheard in...

Hundreds of years ago, there was talk of “semimythical islands” that existed somewhere west of Europe. To get to...

This is a more interesting question than it may first seem. For most birds, molting into new feathers is...