Noah Strycker, 28, is living an adventurous life of birds.
He is Associate Editor of Birding magazine, former columnist known as “BirdBoy” in WildBird magazine, and frequent contributor to other bird-related publications. Noah’s articles have appeared in National Wildlife, Birder’s World, Bird Watcher’s Digest, Living Bird, Birds and Blooms, and Popular Birding, as well as several field guides, government documents, and other print media. His first book, Among Penguins, was released in 2011.
Noah worked this year as an on-board ornithologist and Zodiac driver on a cruise ship in Antarctica, and plans to travel with the same ship in northern Norway this summer. As a seasonal field researcher with birds, he has recently lived in Amazonian Ecuador, the Australian Outback, the Farallon Islands, and Costa Rica. He has also studied birds in Panama, Fiji, Mexico, New Zealand, Antarctica, Hawaii, Alaska, Maine, California, Michigan, and Oregon, helped Taiwan design an ecotourism program, and searched for Ivory-billed Woodpeckers in Florida, in between birding trips. Noah’s “life list” is approaching 2,500 birds on six continents – one-fifth of all the world’s species.
Noah graduated Magna Cum Laude, on full academic scholarship, from Oregon State University in 2008 with a degree in Fisheries and Wildlife, minoring in Fine Arts. He was named the American Birding Association’s “Young Birder of the Year” in 2004.
He is also a competitive tennis player, and headed the Oregon State team at #1 singles for four years. Noah has completed five marathons, spent an accumulated four months backpacking wilderness areas of the Pacific Northwest, and recently walked 64 miles in one day. He hiked the entire 2,665-mile Pacific Crest Trail, from Mexico to Canada, in summer 2011.
