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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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...
Bringing chance into conservation
On a warm late September day, I leaned against a low fence near a tiny creek in Prospect Park and entered a birder’s dream. Birds that often stick to the treetops came down to bathe on the other side of the fence—a scarlet tanager, rose-bre...
Thoughts on a book launch
I wish I could share some new writing today—more of that will be coming, I promise—but since Bird City was published two weeks ago it’s been hard to find much calm to sit down and write. After spending the last four years working on the boo...
Pub Day
This is a short post. Today is pub day for Bird City, the end of a process that began four years ago when I first started thinking about writing this book. Hardly a day has gone by since then where I haven’t thought about it. Thank you to e...
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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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