Julia Zarankin
@JZarankin
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Writer, birdsplainer (@ZeissBirding Ambassador in Canada), lecturer, adult ballet aficionado, translation fellow @YiddishBookCtr.
Toronto
Joined April 2010
This was a great thing to wake up to!
FIELD NOTES FROM AN UNINTENTIONAL BIRDER, Julia Zarankin. Charming + funny memoir by a person who fell into #birding by accident. Look up! + you can do it in the backyard! https://t.co/qhZIKYLC6t
@DMPublishers @NatureCanada @BirdLife_News @audubonsociety @ABCbirds @NCC_CNC
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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 @ZEISSBirding:
blogs.zeiss.com
A spontaneous birdwatching trip to Carden Alvar reveals the beauty and diversity of grassland birds, demonstarting the magic of discovery.
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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! https://t.co/s7xRO6aBbh
#topoli #onpoli
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The plan to redirect the sewage into a shallow channel used by swimmers and rowers is drawing condemnation from locals, including a city councillor and the head of the chief
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This was so much fun to write!! Raptors really are rapturous.
During migrations, teams of seasoned counters track raptors’ passage through Ontario skies. Identifying individual #birds takes detective work and resisting the temptation to rush to judgment. Read the full story: https://t.co/SzJOjqPu8X ✍️ @JZarankin #Birding #OntarioBirds
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A historic landscape @OntarioPlace 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. @fordnation is responsible, with the collaboration of @UrbStrat @DiamondSchmitt @Studiotla
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This is the destruction of the 800+ trees at Ontario Place that @ThermeCanada and @fordnation don't want you to see. It's happening right now.
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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! @ZEISSBirding @DMPublishers
Good night for @Zeissbirding representatives at OFO's annual birding quiz last night. Two different questions featuring our books. Both answered correctly, by the way! @JZarankin @WCA_LitAgency
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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
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#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.
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I love the @ABA 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!
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Researchers at @WesternU's Advanced Facility for Avian Research explore how much songbirds’ bodies can change to fly higher when migrating. Read the full story by @JZarankin here🐦: https://t.co/WkLMCBrUNu
canadiangeographic.ca
Researchers at Western University’s Advanced Facility for Avian Research explore how much songbirds’ bodies can change to fly higher when migrating
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It’s National Go Birding Day! Tools like @Team_eBird & @MerlinBirdID 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 @sciam
scientificamerican.com
There has never been a better time to be or become a birder
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PRESS RELEASE: Studies reveal MegaSpa is the wrong project in the context of our climate emergency https://t.co/Hrp8bBecsF
#topoli #onpoli #Earthday2024 #ClimateEmergency #EarthDay
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Happy Earth Day! In another 15 days my next book, The Birds That Audubon Missed, will be published by @AvidReaderPress / @simonschuster on May 7. I'm grateful to the renowned artist/ornithologist David Sibley for his generous and insightful comments about the book.
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Birds are, literally, astonishing.
Excited to share an illustration I created for an infographic appearing in the recent issue of @CanGeo depicting some of @Catie_Ivy 's research. Article written by @JZarankin
#SciArt, #AvianAnatomy, #AnimalAnatomy, #birdmigration
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my friend is at the Os game and there’s a Virginia rail just sitting on the field as the game is occurring
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So excited to be a finalist for a Degroot Foundation Courage to Write Grant!
degrootfoundation.org
The Babushka Beauty Pageant (Novel), Toronto, CANADA
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