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Thrilled to report that I’m writing a book about the ecology and human history of herring, menhaden, anchovies, sardines, and other small fish that swim in huge schools. DM’s open for all things forage fish. Tell me your sprat and sand-lance stories!

headphones died while i was in the sauna and heard my first ever gym sauna conversation. guy asked an old dude how strong his son was and then started talking about ai super intelligence and the great replacement theory. ok

huge vulture suns in new photo

i bring a sort of “that bird is actually really ill/in extreme stress” vibe to the ‘cute’ wildlife videos that people don’t really like

Your body count is the number of people you’ve gotten into birding

this is a good post i promise open.substack.com/pub/ryanmandel…

I couldn't decide, so I'll post two of them

Fun fact: there is so much cool stuff outside

extremely excited to know about zohran's very normal bagel order

hold me closer, tiny Anser

Care package from @RyanFMandelbaum! 😭 Can’t wait to dig into their new book on wildlife of NYC!

This article got lost in the chaos of book events, but I'm exceedingly proud of it.

birdwatching is the best one, no barrier to entry whatsoever. go outside, encounter a bird, watch it live its life for a little while. you can photograph it or not, identify it or not. also there are no ugly birdwatchers so

and on the seventh day god invented sweatshirt and shorts weather

every time a bird poses for me and actually lets me get nice photos i always say thank you…it’s called manners

These Yellow-legged Gulls were the first to know!!

Wake me up when they invent the METS Gala ammirite

Ok I got another one: Met gala this, Met gala that, some of you need to get to an estuary and find yourself a GAL-linule