So excited to be a finalist for a Degroot Foundation Courage to Write Grant! degrootfoundation.org/julia-zarankin/

my friend is at the Os game and there’s a Virginia rail just sitting on the field as the game is occurring

Birds are, literally, astonishing.

PRESS RELEASE: Studies reveal MegaSpa is the wrong project in the context of our climate emergency mailchi.mp/9b3612642fa6/p… #topoli #onpoli #Earthday2024 #ClimateEmergency #EarthDay

Happy Earth Day! In another 15 days my next book, The Birds That Audubon Missed, will be published by Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster on May 7. I'm grateful to the renowned artist/ornithologist David Sibley for his generous and insightful comments about the book.

It’s National Go Birding Day! Tools like eBird & Merlin Bird ID make finding and identifying birds easier than ever. There’s never been a better time to be a birder. Here’s my story on falling in love with birds in the golden age of birding for Scientific American scientificamerican.com/article/we-are…

Researchers at Western University's Advanced Facility for Avian Research explore how much songbirds’ bodies can change to fly higher when migrating. Read the full story by Julia Zarankin here🐦: canadiangeographic.ca/articles/study…

I love the Amer. Birding Assoc. podast & what a surprise to hear a shoutout for my book! Thrilling to be in the fine company of @ThebirderBob, Rachel Carson, Trevor Herriot & Louise de Kiriline Lawrence!

#topoli Bryant Park, but really in parks & squares all over Manhattan: lots and lots & lots of folding chairs & tables. If you put them out, people will come & spend time in public space. It’s fascinating & depressing that the City of Toronto is unable to do something so simple.

The TTC is falling apart. It doesn't matter how many new lines we build if existing service levels stink and fares are too high. Maintenance is spotty leading to unplanned system shutdowns and it is overwhelmingly, consistently dirty. Operations matter. The TTC used to at least

Congratulations Cathy!! This is fantastic news :)

WOWEEE! I'm in such great company! Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that my book would be part of OFO's annual birding quiz! What a thrill! ZEISS Birding Douglas & McIntyre

This is the destruction of the 800+ trees at Ontario Place that Ontario Place for Everyone and Doug Ford don't want you to see. It's happening right now.

A historic landscape Ontario Place with 800 trees is being destroyed right now. They began work in the cover of darkness. A shameful moment in the history of Toronto and of Canada. Doug Ford is responsible, with the collaboration of Urban Strategies Diamond Schmitt STUDIO tla

Ontario Place West Island has been obliterated, photos taken today by Kurtis Chen. #topoli #onpoli

The $30 million to kill the lease is likely about the same as what moving the sewage outlet to a worse place will cost. Spend the $30 million wisely and kill the MegaSpa lease! thestar.com/news/the-absol… #topoli #onpoli

This was so much fun to write!! Raptors really are rapturous.

I fell in love with grassland birds in Carden Alvar, not far from Toronto. And these birds need our help and protection now more than ever! Such a pleasure to write about my birding adventures there for ZEISS Birding: blogs.zeiss.com/sports-optics/…