“Lighthearted and filled with stories of exotic birds, risky adventures and colorful birding companions.”
-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, EDITOR’S CHOICE
Noah Strycker is a 35-year-old writer, photographer, and bird man based in Oregon. Full Bio
Noah welcomes correspondence at noah.strycker@gmail.com
His books include:
BIRDS OF THE PHOTO ARK
With images by National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore and text by Noah Strycker, this elegant book features hundreds of studio portraits of birds around the world, paired with essays about evolution, behavior, and conservation.
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Upcoming Adventures
Wildlife of Spitsbergen
Returning to Spitsbergen (Svalbard) for his seventh season in the Norwegian Arctic, Noah will be joining several expeditions in 2022. Spitsbergen is most famous for its polar bears, but the birds are spectacular, too: Ivory Gulls, Atlantic Puffins, King Eiders… and hundreds of thousands of nesting seabirds.
Multiple departures in May-August, 2022 | Itinerary and Details
Speaking Engagements
Noah is especially known for the humor, lively stories, and thoughtful reflections in his presentations, which celebrate the ways that birds unite and inspire us.
Past Appearances:
“Noah’s presentation was a big hit for our capacity audience!”
-Andrew Rubenfeld, Linnaean Society of New York
Videos
Disappearing Penguins, 2021 (15 minutes)
This documentary, produced by Greenpeace International, features Noah conducting field work on Elephant Island, Antarctica, during his graduate studies of Chinstrap Penguins. The video was awarded Best Children’s Film at the 2021 Wild & Scenic Film Festival.
TEDxSalem, 2018 (15 minutes)
Noah recounts his Big Year for TEDx in Salem, Oregon, with a few laughs along the way. In this talk, Noah runs into trouble in Peru, faces his worst fear in Asia, considers a piece of below-the-belt body art, makes unexpected friends, and discovers how birds can—no joke—unite the world.
Birding Without Borders, 2015 (5 minutes)
At the end of his round-the-world trip in 2015, during a long flight home from India, Noah cut together this whirlwind tour of all 41 countries he’d visited in the previous 12 months. This video shows birds, people, and some of the most spectacular (and obscure) places on Earth.