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i've been writing and rewriting this post for a long time and i think it's basically ready to send off into the world now - coming to terms with being an american ecotourist in the neotropics. enjoy! 🦉🪶🧪

ecoutourism in the wake of imperialismopen.substack.com a tropical coming-to-terms

i had a cerulean warbler visit my street tree! 🦉🪶🧪 ryanmandelbirder.substack.com/p/a-celebrit...

a celebrity visited my street treesryanmandelbirder.substack.com dozens of people came to visit my sidewalk this week to see my bird

i didn't feel comfortable sharing this on twitter where the flaco discourse can get very heated but i am pretty happy with this take so i'd like to share it somewhere 🦉🪶🧪 ryanmandelbirder.substack.com/p/flaco-is-d...

flaco is dead, long live flacoryanmandelbirder.substack.com i have a take too

hello sorry im so bad at checking this website but you should read my newest newsletter post anyway because it's cute ryanmandelbirder.substack.com/p/a-rooftop-...

a rooftop seagull romanceryanmandelbirder.substack.com happy belated valentine's day :)

when i went to costa rica back in 2022, the last stop of our trip was a walmart across from the country's biggest airport so i could see one of costa rica's most range-restricted birds. read more in my latest newsletter post: 🪶🧪🦉 ryanmandelbirder.substack.com/p/the-rare-t...

look at his little feet

rusty blackbirds are a threatened species and i rarely see more than one or two. the other day i saw 27 on long island! 🦉🪶

new newsletter entry!! this one answers the question: why are there hummingbirds in the northeast in winter? 🪶 🦉 open.substack.com/pub/ryanmand...

I'm leading a free birdwatching walk at Shirley Chisholm State Park next weekend, one of my favorite spots to look for birds in New York City. Learn more and sign up here! 🦉🪶 www.eventbrite.com/e/7597611751...

i submitted a few photos to the annual photo contest run by the island in michigan i visit each summer with my in-laws and one of them was selected as a runner up! this was my least favorite of the photos i submitted and the winner was an iphone photo. but still, yay

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one of the pleasures of the 1990s was for your parents to get a computer and brag to everyone how good their kid is at the computer, and then ask you why you like the computer so much, and tell you to get off the fucking computer every day until you moved out

cool bird thing: my friend is a guide in costa rica, and his friend found a gull - most gulls are very rare there. he sent me blurry photos, which i told him looked like lesser black-backed gull. today someone got better photos, and it was a lesser black backed, costa rica's second ever! 🦉🪶

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this letter to the editor of The Auk by the co-founder of the boy scouts Ernest Seton makes a case against eponymous names and against scientists dictating common names more generally — in 1885. seton was problematic himself, but this shows that eponyms weren't a beloved idea, even in back then. 🪶🦉

here are some good folk names that they should give to some of the eponymous birds sabine's gull: xeme couch's kingbird: whistling tyrant (tr. from spanish) clark's nutcracker: woodpecker crow brewer's blackbird: satin bird any eponymous big shearwater: muttonbird

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This is a fascinating read about conservation of a coastal plant that's important for beaches and birds

plover conservation directly helps a very cute endangered plant in the northeastern united states. but plover conservation only goes so far, and securing seabeach amaranth may require answering some tough questions about the future we want. 🧪🦉🪶 ryanmandelbirder.substack.com/p/the-secret...

the secret beneficiary of plover conservationryanmandelbirder.substack.com a cute little plant with a big job

i just read a long feature about a linguistic quirk and halfway through realized a coworker does it and i want so badly to talk to them about it but i get the sense that telling someone “hey, you speak weird, here’s why” is not appropriate workplace behavior

i checked out the southern point of the marine park southwest trail in brooklyn for the first time yesterday. it's actually a rare forest type in ny state, a forest stuck in succession because of sea spray. i was surprised to see some areas with relatively few invasive species. it was really cool! 🧪

it’s incredible to realize that you can just put a potato in the oven then serve it with butter as “the side dish.” like, 50% of a meal is allowed to be the cheapest vegetable, not altered at all, heated up. and it tastes good. remembering this obvious thing feels like uncovering ancient wizardry

brittany won’t kiss me while we’re dressed like this :/

what makes alt milks so beautiful to me isn’t the vegan part but the possibilities that come with expanding your milk palette. maple latte with regular milk pales in comparison to one with oat milk. of course i’d rather coconut milk-based piña colada ice cream. it’s just science

i think that one of the single biggest misconceptions about american birds is that golden eagles are larger than bald eagles. they are… the same size 🪶 🦉

i’ve been a professional content creator for 8 years now and today at work i realized that i have no idea what the hell content actually is

today was my annual thousand rooftop robin day and i feel like i should write about it with the drama of the tadoussac million warbler day 🪶 🦉

i saw an eastern phoebe behind my apartment, and it wasn't bobbing its tail. it was in a safe little nook - no people it could see, no birds of prey. for once in its life it was able to find a moment of peace 🪶🦉

already embarrassed knowing that my most-listened to spotify wrapped song is almost certainly going to be an awful brazilian electronic song i only listened to so much because i was trying to figure out how the heck to pronounce the ã sound

got scolded for suggesting that shinji and misato was a “couple’s costume”

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So @ryanfm.bsky.social unleashed this tiny-faced goose into the group chat and we will never be the same. ebird.org/species/andg...

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there were a bunch of pelicans in new york city this month. smells like climate change, but the story is more complex than that (though yes, there's climate change to it). read: ryanmandelbirder.substack.com/p/the-curiou... 🦉🪶

the curious case of the nyc pelicansryanmandelbirder.substack.com pelicans?? in new york city?? it's more likely than you'd think