10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

Happy New Year, 10,000 Birds readers and writers! Everyone is looking back on their best birds of 2019, so I thought it would be a good idea to look at a book that looks back a little further: Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City , by P. The Bronx also has a special place in birding history.

New York City 144

New York City New York Birds Breeding 144

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2012

One of the more exciting birds this summer in this little corner of North Carolina is undoubtedly the King Rail s that have been regularly reported in a still-water back-arm of Jordan Lake in Chatham County, just south of where I live. For me, King Rail resides in life bird limbo.

North Carolina 165

North Carolina Jordan Broker Woodpeckers 165

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2019

I can’t tell you exactly how I brokered this meeting between these titans of industry and a team from the AOS, either. I brushed the screen of my tablet and the image of a small bird, bold in black and gray and chestnut, filled the screen behind me. “So you seriously propose to let us name birds like we name stadiums?”

Branding 152

Branding Falcons California Condor Broker 152