ryan
@ryanfm.bsky.social
bird enjoyer
ryanmandelbirder.substack.com
please order my book about nyc nature thank you
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ryan-mandelbaum/wild-nyc/9781643263281/?lens=timber-press
they/them
ryanmandelbirder.substack.com
please order my book about nyc nature thank you
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ryan-mandelbaum/wild-nyc/9781643263281/?lens=timber-press
they/them
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I had so much fun talking to @ryanfm.bsky.social about their book and birds and much more on my latest podcast episode. Give it a listen and don't forget to buy a copy of Wild NYC!
Pod 🎧 billbowbaggins.substack.com/p/ten-birdin...
Book 📕 bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
Pod 🎧 billbowbaggins.substack.com/p/ten-birdin...
Book 📕 bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
Ten Birding Questions, with Ryan Mandelbaum
The Birding with BillBow Podcast, Episode 7
billbowbaggins.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I had so much fun talking to @ryanfm.bsky.social about their book and birds and much more on my latest podcast episode. Give it a listen and don't forget to buy a copy of Wild NYC!
Pod 🎧 billbowbaggins.substack.com/p/ten-birdin...
Book 📕 bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
Pod 🎧 billbowbaggins.substack.com/p/ten-birdin...
Book 📕 bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
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One of my favorite things about working on Alcatraz was watching the resident raven pair "teach" their kids to fly. It always included a session on barrel rolls. It was even more special bc the mgmt plan incl oiling their eggs to make them unviable & the ravens knew & would always lay another clutch
sitting at lunch in midtown manhattan and just watched a raven do a barrel roll, presumably for no reason
November 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
One of my favorite things about working on Alcatraz was watching the resident raven pair "teach" their kids to fly. It always included a session on barrel rolls. It was even more special bc the mgmt plan incl oiling their eggs to make them unviable & the ravens knew & would always lay another clutch
sitting at lunch in midtown manhattan and just watched a raven do a barrel roll, presumably for no reason
November 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
sitting at lunch in midtown manhattan and just watched a raven do a barrel roll, presumably for no reason
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Some personal news: I’m writing a book!
I’ve signed with Holt to write a full-length history of birds and people in America. Birds have always been central to our economy, divisions, culture, and identity. If you want to understand America, you‘ve got to understand its birds.
I’ve signed with Holt to write a full-length history of birds and people in America. Birds have always been central to our economy, divisions, culture, and identity. If you want to understand America, you‘ve got to understand its birds.
November 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Some personal news: I’m writing a book!
I’ve signed with Holt to write a full-length history of birds and people in America. Birds have always been central to our economy, divisions, culture, and identity. If you want to understand America, you‘ve got to understand its birds.
I’ve signed with Holt to write a full-length history of birds and people in America. Birds have always been central to our economy, divisions, culture, and identity. If you want to understand America, you‘ve got to understand its birds.
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
send this post to your friends who love cocks open.substack.com/pub/ryanmand...
potatoes have descended on new york city
peent
open.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
send this post to your friends who love cocks open.substack.com/pub/ryanmand...
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If you’re thinking to yourself
“How can I get more 🐦 on my 🎄 this year”
I have some good news.
You can use this little tool to design a feathery ❄️ from 🐦 data and make a one of a kind ornament.
ofafeather.binstobins.com
“How can I get more 🐦 on my 🎄 this year”
I have some good news.
You can use this little tool to design a feathery ❄️ from 🐦 data and make a one of a kind ornament.
ofafeather.binstobins.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
If you’re thinking to yourself
“How can I get more 🐦 on my 🎄 this year”
I have some good news.
You can use this little tool to design a feathery ❄️ from 🐦 data and make a one of a kind ornament.
ofafeather.binstobins.com
“How can I get more 🐦 on my 🎄 this year”
I have some good news.
You can use this little tool to design a feathery ❄️ from 🐦 data and make a one of a kind ornament.
ofafeather.binstobins.com
also sprach zara-thrush-tra
November 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
also sprach zara-thrush-tra
somehow stumbled into the fact that suntory (the japanese whisky company) runs an online encyclopedia about the birds of japan www.suntory.co.jp/eco/birds/en...
www.suntory.co.jp
November 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
somehow stumbled into the fact that suntory (the japanese whisky company) runs an online encyclopedia about the birds of japan www.suntory.co.jp/eco/birds/en...
for me the vomit-like smell of ginkgo fruit is the nostalgic smell of fall, much in the way that rotting garbage and piss is the somewhat less nostalgic smell of summer
October 31, 2025 at 12:36 PM
for me the vomit-like smell of ginkgo fruit is the nostalgic smell of fall, much in the way that rotting garbage and piss is the somewhat less nostalgic smell of summer
i was so lucky that i got to chase this common cuckoo - only the second ever in the lower 48 - in ny state last week. having never seen a eurasian or african cuckoo species before, i couldn't believe how big and conspicuous it was—cuckoos are mostly shy and hard-to-see in the western hemisphere.
October 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
i was so lucky that i got to chase this common cuckoo - only the second ever in the lower 48 - in ny state last week. having never seen a eurasian or african cuckoo species before, i couldn't believe how big and conspicuous it was—cuckoos are mostly shy and hard-to-see in the western hemisphere.
it is objectively true that there are no good billionaires. but it's also true that if *i* ended up with a billion dollars, i would be a very good billionaire
October 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
it is objectively true that there are no good billionaires. but it's also true that if *i* ended up with a billion dollars, i would be a very good billionaire
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Good news from @ryanfm.bsky.social 🪶https://www.audubon.org/magazine/buckle-birders-winter-looking-finchy
Buckle Up, Birders—This Winter Is Looking Finchy
Good numbers of siskins, grosbeaks, and other favorites could be headed your way, according to the latest edition of the annual Winter Finch Forecast.
www.audubon.org
October 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Good news from @ryanfm.bsky.social 🪶https://www.audubon.org/magazine/buckle-birders-winter-looking-finchy
up at 4:00am stewing because one time twelve years ago an entire room full of midwesterners laughed at me, a new yorker, for pronouncing drawer "drawa"
October 18, 2025 at 8:43 AM
up at 4:00am stewing because one time twelve years ago an entire room full of midwesterners laughed at me, a new yorker, for pronouncing drawer "drawa"
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Here is an ant-mimicking spider from the Amazon rainforest. I was heading down a trail back to our boat and saw it and got a few shots. It's one of 3 observations of the species on @inaturalist.bsky.social
(Myrmecium deladanta) Cuyabeno Reserve, Ecuador 2022
#Arachtober
(Myrmecium deladanta) Cuyabeno Reserve, Ecuador 2022
#Arachtober
October 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Here is an ant-mimicking spider from the Amazon rainforest. I was heading down a trail back to our boat and saw it and got a few shots. It's one of 3 observations of the species on @inaturalist.bsky.social
(Myrmecium deladanta) Cuyabeno Reserve, Ecuador 2022
#Arachtober
(Myrmecium deladanta) Cuyabeno Reserve, Ecuador 2022
#Arachtober
very big little guy behavior in orlando last week watching this purple gallinule pulling a lily pad over and folding it over to get better footing and feed on the flower underneath
purple gallinule, orlando wetlands
YouTube video by Ryan Mandelbaum
www.youtube.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
very big little guy behavior in orlando last week watching this purple gallinule pulling a lily pad over and folding it over to get better footing and feed on the flower underneath
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I'm 100% with Ryan on this (and not just because I was on the same trip)!! Anthropomorphizing can of course go too far, but I've seen over and over again in my outreach work that a little bit can really help people connect to nature more!
maybe a little different from my usual newsletter posts. but also, we should talk to animals more.
ryanmandelbirder.substack.com/p/we-should-...
ryanmandelbirder.substack.com/p/we-should-...
we should talk to animals more
an essay on what i really mean when i call them "little guys"
ryanmandelbirder.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I'm 100% with Ryan on this (and not just because I was on the same trip)!! Anthropomorphizing can of course go too far, but I've seen over and over again in my outreach work that a little bit can really help people connect to nature more!
maybe a little different from my usual newsletter posts. but also, we should talk to animals more.
ryanmandelbirder.substack.com/p/we-should-...
ryanmandelbirder.substack.com/p/we-should-...
we should talk to animals more
an essay on what i really mean when i call them "little guys"
ryanmandelbirder.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
maybe a little different from my usual newsletter posts. but also, we should talk to animals more.
ryanmandelbirder.substack.com/p/we-should-...
ryanmandelbirder.substack.com/p/we-should-...
had a work trip to orlando so i went a few days early to see what all the fuss was about. i had an amazing time and figured i'd share the full trip report here!
ebird.org/tripreport/4...
ebird.org/tripreport/4...
Florida! - eBird Trip Report
04 Oct, 2025 – 09 Oct, 2025. Created by Ryan Mandelbaum
ebird.org
October 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
had a work trip to orlando so i went a few days early to see what all the fuss was about. i had an amazing time and figured i'd share the full trip report here!
ebird.org/tripreport/4...
ebird.org/tripreport/4...
new blog from google
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In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:
New library catalogue website.
New library catalogue website.
October 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
new blog from google
something i loved about florida was realizing it's as if someone tried to recreate the tropics using north american flora and fauna. i loved seeing epiphyte-covered red maples in tropical hammocks, or pileated woodpeckers flying between grassland palms like crimson-crested woodpeckers on the llanos
October 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
something i loved about florida was realizing it's as if someone tried to recreate the tropics using north american flora and fauna. i loved seeing epiphyte-covered red maples in tropical hammocks, or pileated woodpeckers flying between grassland palms like crimson-crested woodpeckers on the llanos
i knew that the birdwatching was good in florida but i wasn't ready for just how many and how present the birds would be - birds that i expected to be in pristine habitat would just be in parking lots, street trees, roadside ditches, and vacant lots 🦉
October 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
i knew that the birdwatching was good in florida but i wasn't ready for just how many and how present the birds would be - birds that i expected to be in pristine habitat would just be in parking lots, street trees, roadside ditches, and vacant lots 🦉
it is actually bonkers that florida is called the sunshine state, i have never been to a rainier place in my life
October 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
it is actually bonkers that florida is called the sunshine state, i have never been to a rainier place in my life
what it felt like to be given laughing gas for dental surgery when i was 13
October 6, 2025 at 10:36 AM
what it felt like to be given laughing gas for dental surgery when i was 13