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Birding for a Better World
A new book from the Feminist Bird Club
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Molly Adams founded the Feminist Bird Club to try to make birding safer and more inclusive. Along with coauthor Sydney Golden Anderson, Molly wrote a book titled Birding for a Better World that welcomes newcomers to birding and offers ways to make events more inclusive and accessible. The book debunks myths that can scare people away from birding and describes how mindful birding can help improve our world.
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Birding for a Better World
Written by Conor Gearin
This is BirdNote.
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Molly Adams founded the Feminist Bird Club to try to make birding safer and more inclusive.
Molly Adams: Birders who are black, visibly disabled, and queer are going to face challenges while birding that cisgender, able-bodied white people do not, and our goal is to reduce these obstacles.
Along with coauthor Sydney Golden Anderson, Molly wrote a book titled Birding for a Better World that welcomes newcomers to birding and offers ways to make events more inclusive and accessible.
Molly Adams: We hope that this book encourages organizers to consider what needs they might not already be meeting and find ways to accommodate them. Throughout the book, you’ll see a lot of suggestions from other birding organizations, and ways that organizers can look to their own members and other groups in their community.
The book also debunks some myths that can scare people away from birding, Sydney says.
Sydney Golden Anderson: Birding does not necessarily mean bird walk. In fact, you don't have to walk at all while birding. Birding is for all people of all ages and abilities. You don't have to have fancy equipment to begin birding, and yes, you're a birder, even if you're a beginner.
What’s more, Sydney says that birding can help improve our world.
Sydney Golden Anderson: Birding with mindfulness can be a profoundly healing practice that can help one redevelop a sense of interconnectivity with nature — how to just be there and coexist, and do so in a way that's sustainable and gentle and careful and reciprocal.
Learn more about the book on our website, BirdNote dot org. I’m Jonese Franklin.
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Senior Producer: John Kessler
Producer: Mark Bramhill
Managing Editor: Jazzi Johnson
Managing Producer: Conor Gearin
Content Director: Jonese Franklin
Bird sounds provided by The Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. ML229518 Environmental recorded by David McCartt.
BirdNote’s theme was composed and played by Nancy Rumbel and John Kessler.
© 2023 BirdNote November 2023
Narrator: Jonese Franklin
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Conor Gearin
Writer