ryan

nyc nature person
(they/them/opinions mine)
buy my book wild nyc (pinned tweet)

[ryan @RyanFMandelbaum]

https://t.co/dRoNQqWMO7

[Murray Coombe @murraycoombe]

Tapping the sign again

[ryan @RyanFMandelbaum]

sign this petition to help save nyc's black-crowned night herons!!! these herons are historically the most abundant wading bird in the nyc harbor but their population has fallen 55% in 22 years, and projections say they'll be gone from the city by 2037 :( https://t.co/uhvuEeQsVu

[ryan @RyanFMandelbaum]

herring gull :)

[fag daughter🐦‍⬛𓅨 @fag_daughter]

question for birders: if you had to be a bird, which bird would you be?

[katiebakes @katiebakes]

tapping the sign*

*2009 Paste Magazine spread

[ryan @RyanFMandelbaum]

@chrisstIawrence :)

[ryan @RyanFMandelbaum]

he looks like he's saying "aw shucks" after i'd just paid him a lovely compliment. and i did pay him a lovely compliment. i told him he was the most beautiful boy at the sewage treatment plant

[ryan @RyanFMandelbaum]

this is a hudsonian godwit, a rare and threatened shorebird that breeds at just a few sites in the arctic and winters at just a few sites in southern south america. it's most often encountered on migration on the US great plains in the spring and atlantic coast in fall.

[david 🫍 @daviddadummy]

like what are we doing here

[ryan @RyanFMandelbaum]

i present to you the dolphin gull, a horrible, wonderful bird found only in the southern cone of south america and the falkland islands

[Tina Quillen Photography @aHeartSoFull]

Today's Photo Challenge is SEAGULLS.

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Did you know that there are roughly 50 to 55 species of gulls worldwide? In the birding community, the term "seagull" is a catch-all nickname, as they are simply classified as "gulls" with no specific species carrying the official name "seagull".

[ryan @RyanFMandelbaum]

@birdwarehouse_ very very excited for you!!!!!

[ryan @RyanFMandelbaum]

(evilly, seeing that my favorite pizza places are not listed) yes!!!! great list!!!! please keep going to all of these places and nowhere else!!!!! there are no other good pizza places in nyc!!!!

[Consensus Media @ConsensusGurus]

If you try to tell me this is a bad NYC pizza list, I will kindly ask you to delete your account and head over to Blue Sky

[ryan @RyanFMandelbaum]

@guttenbirder22 @frogkenny Also the iphone 17 pro camera is reeeeally good. the 40x zoom is good enough that i'm sometimes using the phone itself as binoculars

[BillBowBaggins @baggins_bow]

Episode 7 - Ryan Mandelbaum @RyanFMandelbaum

Personal highlight: Talking about the history of NYC's green spaces.

https://t.co/SP2pq1xrim

[ryan @RyanFMandelbaum]

there are places in nyc that look like this

[Birch Brother 🪓 @BjorkBrodern]

Post an image of the outside to freak out Americans (No you can't use AI).

[ryan @RyanFMandelbaum]

@mrpavopeacock it was amazing! at this point i'm most interested in new places versus new birds anyway. always excited about a different park or trail or something since access can be dicey. i had to make several phone calls to get permission to bird places

[ryan @RyanFMandelbaum]

went to a park in fargo and there were tennessee warblers in every apple tree

[ryan @RyanFMandelbaum]

@mrpavopeacock sweet! i haven't been but it's on my list. this was my first time visiting in the spring and it was pretty epic https://t.co/4UuZJjPRDv

[ryan @RyanFMandelbaum]

@mrpavopeacock yes! my brother in law was showing me around, it's
his patch! we also birded MB johnson in moorhead. we had a great time, lots of new ND birds for me

[ryan @RyanFMandelbaum]

@EastRiverHeron come to green-wood cemetery tomorrow! there were dozens of cedar waxwings there today

[ryan @RyanFMandelbaum]

you could probably see 200 bird species if you spent the first two weeks of may here

[Jack Raines @Jack_Raines]

You just won a 2-week, all-expenses-paid vacation to New York. But there’s a catch: you have to stay within one region the whole time. What are you picking?

[ryan @RyanFMandelbaum]

@EfranOctavio1 @nvolpewild @OtorongoLodge oh yeah, every time i visit central or south america i find something that has 0 inat records (or something that hasn't been described)! the key is to just photograph the stuff other people aren't — moths, snailes, small suff, etc