10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
My wife and I had the privilege of visiting Mexican friends in Jordan in early October. As it turns out, birding can also be slightly delicate in this country. Even upon our departure from Jordan, I was informed that my ever-so-dangerous binoculars could not go in my carry-on bag. So, would I go back to Jordan just to bird?
10,000 Birds
MARCH 5, 2023
I recently received a kind letter from a 10,000 Birds friend, who was worried that my recent irregularity in contributing to this website might indicate that something was wrong. First, we had our five-week trip to Spain, Turkey and Jordan in September and October. I assured him then, and assure you now, that I am fine.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
If birders say they love birds ostensibly because they can fly and we cannot, then there must be no more beloved group of birds than the swallows. These aerial acrobats are among the most impressive flyers in the bird world, darting this way and that over open country in pursuit of flying insects. Til next year.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 15, 2023
And since I suspect there may be others out there who, like I, feel something of a personal connection with 10,000 Birds’ regular writers, I feel the need to explain my absence. Now, all of this should not have kept me from seeing, and reporting on, some cool Mediterranean birds. In fact, I have not formally gone birding, at all.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 22, 2013
And now we enter into a family of birds more or less unknown to non-birders. To know a grebe is to take your bird awareness to another level. To cast your eyes to the cattails on the edges of the pond or the raft of birds at the lake’s center and to know what you are likely to find. Not enough for you?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2013
There are few birds in the sprawl of suburbia or the sylvan ideal of semi-rural existence as appreciated as wrens. The name wren first entered language to refer to that bouncy bird we now call the Eurasian Wren in the 8th Century as the Old English wraenna. like a snake through grass. Carolina Wren, photo by Nate Swick.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 25, 2022
Our relatively-recent trip to Spain and the Middle East was, as expected, a great opportunity to see new birds. In the end, it gave me 44 lifers: 10 from Turkey and 8 from Jordan, which I had not visited before, and 26 from Spain, which I had visited previously, but in which we spent much more time.
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