About
What's at the feeder, what's overhead, what's gone.
Roost is an independent online magazine founded in 2025 to do one thing: long-form, careful reporting on the parts of life that move too slowly to make the daily wire feeds.
Roost is a quarterly of birding, field ornithology, and the slow accounting of which species are here, which are arriving, and which we will not see again.
The magazine is run by a small editorial collective, the Roost Editorial Trust, constituted as a non-profit publisher. Decisions about coverage, accuracy, and editorial direction are taken independently of any commercial interest. We do not run display advertising.
We publish under five named contributors who together edit and write the magazine. You can read about each on the contributor pages. Pieces are commissioned, reported, edited, fact-checked, and published in roughly four-week cycles.
We hold ourselves to three standards. Our editorial policy, our style guide, our ethics statement.
Write to us at editor@roostmagazine.co.
The masthead
- EC
Edith Crale spent eighteen years at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology before founding Roost. She still counts at Sapsucker Woods on Saturdays.
- MD
Marius Doyle is an ecologist who has spent fifteen years studying single species at depth. He edits Roost's Species section.
- IK
Inara Khan works on urban wetland conservation in South Asia and edits Roost's Habitat section from a small flat in Bandra.
- PM
Pell Murphy has submitted over 4,000 eBird checklists since 2014. He edits the magazine's citizen science section.
- JW
Jasper Wynn is a bioacoustician and field recordist. He edits the Songs section and runs Roost's sound archive.