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how Black birdwatchers are finding a community | Birds | The Guardian

Black Birders Week brings attention to the exclusion of Black people from both natural and academic spaces.

Black Birders Week - National Audubon Society

This year, the official Black Birders Week merch includes the Blue Jay, the American Crow, and the Black-billed Magpie. These three species were chosen to be ...

Birding Is Booming. So Where Are the Black Birders? - YES! Magazine

Raising the profile of Black birders could help foster a healthy connection between Black communities and the natural world.

How to make birding more inclusive / accessible to people of color?

But in other areas, a prime birding spot may be located in or near a white area where black or latino or non white people are treated with ...

Colorful World of Birding Has Conspicuous Lack of People of Color

The meetings have covered a range of reasons why minorities may find it hard to embrace birding, including concerns about how onlookers might ...

The realities of being a black birdwatcher - CNN

Several black birdwatchers said that Christian Cooper's experience in Central Park was an extreme example of a common situation in which ...

Black Excellence in Local Birding Communities Is Creating Change ...

... community garden scene, the Academy continues to find ways to be involved in unique, diverse communities who are as passionate about the ...

Wings of Justice: Birding While Black - YouTube

... Black experience in STEM, the outdoors, and the birding community. https://www.blackafinstem.com/ The National Audubon Society is a non ...

Building Community for BIPOC Birders - BirdNote

In this episode, Herrera shares with our host Deja Perkins why spaces for Black and brown birders are important to have for both safety and ...

What you should know about Black birders - The Conversation

Birdwatching is also a racialized hobby, where whiteness and white privilege work together to keep it non-Black. What this means is that the ...

'Birds Are Here For Everyone': Black Birdwatchers Finding A ...

"In a 2011 study by the Fish and Wildlife Service, 93% of birders surveyed were white while just 4% were Black".

Birding While Black | Sierra Club

One of the main promoters behind #BlackBirdersWeek is Jason Ward, a thirtysomething African American birder in Atlanta who in recent years has ...

Reflections from Black Birders Week: Birding, Racism, and Inclusion ...

With online conversations, panel discussions, and community building, their efforts showcased their love and knowledge of birds and the ...

At Events Like Ours: Five Years of Black Birders Week [Essay]

We want these events to be opportunities for Black birders of all levels to share their experiences in community with each other, without being ...

'Black Birders Week' Promotes Diversity and Takes on Racism in the ...

The second goal is to educate the birding and broader outdoor-loving community about the challenges Black birders specifically face. Black ...

Black birders are taking flight in L.A. Here's how to join them

Black birders have found community in Los Angeles because of online movements to change America's perception of who spends leisure time ...

A Black Birder's Ramble Through the Thicket of Opinion on Social ...

... Black birders being harder to find than Black Rails. Enter Black Birders Week (BBW). Millennials and Z-er's blew on the embers with ...

Building a Black birding community in Detroit

The National Audubon Society itself is named after a slaveholding birder who contributed to white supremacist ideology and worked against ...

Black Birders Call Out Racism, Say Nature Should Be for Everyone

Several of them shared their own experiences in a group chat, and economist Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman suggested finding a way to celebrate black ...

What you need to know about Indiana's first-ever Black Birders Week

Black Birders Week launched in 2020 in response to an incident in Central Park, New York, where Black Birder, Christian Cooper, was subjected to ...