Archive - eyy i'm walkin here

why would someone go birdwatching at a landfill?

a visit to ushuaia's infamous dump

May 28 • ryan mandelbirder

April 2026

how to find birds: a subjective guide

based solely on experience

Apr 27 • ryan mandelbirder

March 2026

documenting the world's rarest butterflies from an office chair

a q+a with prolific inaturalist user and butterfly expert aaron soh

Mar 16 • ryan mandelbirder

February 2026

a bit of buddhism while browsing for bird art

you call it luck, i call it dependent origination

Feb 8 • ryan mandelbirder

January 2026

that time we rediscovered endangered snails for fun

you're welcome, michigan

Jan 12 • ryan mandelbirder

November 2025

potatoes have descended on new york city

Nov 20, 2025 • ryan mandelbirder

October 2025

we should talk to animals more

an essay on what i really mean when i call them "little guys"

Oct 14, 2025 • ryan mandelbirder

September 2025

these butterflies have a head for a butt

a good old fashioned blog post

Sep 2, 2025 • ryan mandelbirder

August 2025

a few nature zines from my nature journaling class

chelsea is better at drawing than me

Aug 7, 2025 • ryan mandelbirder

July 2025

new yorkers have taken over antarctica (and vice versa)

the most common bird you've never heard of (ok, some of you have heard of it)

Jul 30, 2025 • ryan mandelbirder

pingquest: a wild plant chase

to the tune of the funiculì, funiculà: pinguiculi pinguicula

Jul 10, 2025 • ryan mandelbirder

June 2025

what's it like to do wildlife biology new york city?

q+a with ellen pehek, wildlife biologist and research ecologist retired from nyc parks' natural resources group

Jun 23, 2025 • ryan mandelbirder