'Exhausted faithful return'

After an interpretive sign at lunawanna-alonnah / Bruny Island, lutruwita / Tasmania.

May 15, 2025 • Alex Tey

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April 2025

Toward Birds, for Whom?

A review of Lili Taylor's "Turning to Birds" (2025).

Apr 30, 2025 • Alex Tey

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It’s a Bird— It’s a Plane— Oh No

A deep dive into the data behind American aviation’s grisly bird strike problem.

Apr 11, 2025 • Alex Tey

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February 2025

For Reasons Known Only to Itself

This rare hawk is back at a recycling center on the Brooklyn waterfront for the third winter in a row.

Feb 26, 2025 • Alex Tey

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November 2024

Seven sketches from iNaturalist

Online images of birds in places.

Nov 11, 2024 • Alex Tey

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May 2024

New article: Bird flu is our fault

Check out this guest essay I wrote for the newspaper.

May 15, 2024 • Alex Tey

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March 2024

The Flaco Fandom Betrayed the Owl They Loved

Flaco’s fans thought they were championing his freedom. Instead, they anthropomorphized him to death.

Mar 28, 2024 • Alex Tey

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August 2023

Split

What can I count on?

Aug 25, 2023 • Alex Tey

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June 2022

May 2022 Brooklyn, N.Y., Bicknell’s Thrush

Doing my best to give this elusive woodland songbird the respect it deserves.

Jun 3, 2022 • Alex Tey

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May 2022

Jan. 2022 Southern Ocean Prothonotary Warbler

Thoughts on a “swamp candle” at sea.

May 10, 2022 • Alex Tey

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February 2022

Modeling for Bird Collective in Prospect Park

I pretended to be birding to have my photo taken in a Bird Collective shirt, and did some actual birding while I was at it. Republished from…

Feb 22, 2022 • Alex Tey