‘I had no one to bird with who wasn’t 20 years older than me’: Meet the Gen Zers who transformed grandma’s hobby into an analog craze | Fortune0

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• August 23, 2026

Ian Bell was 15 the first time he went looking for birds in Central Park alone in 2021, waking most mornings before school to walk the park with a pair of binoculars, oftentimes the only teenager doing so. “I remember starting birding and being very lonely,” Bell told Fortune. “I had no one to bird