Lombardo

[lom-bahr-doh, luhm-]

noun

1. Guy (Albert), 1902–77, U.S. bandleader, born in Canada.

Example Sentences

Lombardo truly believes that birding is what people are meant to be doing: “In my aspirationally poetic moments, I call it a festival of noticing,” he said.

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Lombardo likes to say that birding is punk — as a joke, but one that he believes in fully.

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“The dominant culture is so screen-obsessed and superficial and into virtual realities and numbing out and chasing likes or chasing this. Birding is a practice where you are just sitting with your body in the real world — that is punk as f**k,” Lombardo said.

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Even so, Michael Lombardo, who started birding in 2019 while living in San Francisco and moved to Brooklyn in 2021, was surprised at how many birds he was seeing when he started frequenting McGolrick Park, a small park in Greenpoint.

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Lombardo began leading bird walks the weekend after quitting his tech job in 2023, and soon formed the McGolrick Bird Club with “a vibe shift in mind.”

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