Ryan Goldberg's Field Notes
Ryan GoldbergDispatches from Ryan Goldberg, journalist and author of Bird City: Adventures in New York's Urban Wilds.
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Was it a good spring?
Two weeks ago, on the last migration walk I led this season, a new birder asked me if I thought it had been a good spring.
This is an age-old question among birders. I would ask the same in my early years. You want certainty in an uncertai...
25 years of service to birds
One of my primary motivations for writing a book about the birds and the birders of New York was to be able to write about Peter Dorosh. I first wrote about Peter for the Village Voice in April 2017 (“Meet the Bird Man of Prospect Park”), a...
Birding in Mexico
In February I went to Mexico for two weeks, first to Zihuatanejo, a fishing town that climbs dry slopes above the Pacific, and then over the transvolcanic belt, as it’s known, to Mexico City, a place that still feels unbelievable to me. Bir...
Bird City goes west
Last week I gave a talk about Bird City at Buteo Books in San Rafael, California. It was a personal highlight for me. Buteo Books carries the largest selection of birding books in North America, and I’ve ordered from it for years, including...
Counting season
It’s bird counting season.
Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count, one of the oldest and largest wildlife censuses, begins this Sunday and lasts until January 5. This is the 126th edition. Last year, over 83,000 people, a new record, participated...
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Journalist and author of Bird City: Adventures in New York's Urban Wilds (Algonquin), out Nov. 2025.
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