Birders Week News Today

Black Birders Week 2024 is featuring a series of virtual and in-person events throughout the country to allow folks to engage with Black leaders and experts in the birding community

The Academy of Natural Sciences at Drexel University is hosting a black-tie gala to celebrate Black Birders Week, featuring Christian Cooper.

Black Birders Week

Birding experts offer tips for new bird-watchers, from the best birding gear and apps to how to find your way into the bird-watching community.

Birding is the act of observing and identifying birds in the wild as a form of recreation and citizen science.

Author and expert Chris Cooper talks about his new Nat Geo show and why more Black people should start looking at the birds.

A cluster of around 20 people stood silently in Keach Park on Saturday morning for a “listening moment.” They dropped their binoculars and attempted to focus on the tweeting sounds that came from above them.“The diversity of wildlife in this park is...

“For far too long, Black people in the United States have been shown that outdoor exploration activities are not for us,” Corina Newsome, who studies Seaside Sparrows, said in a video posted on Twitter. “Whether it be the way the media chooses to present who is the ‘outdoorsy’ type, or the racism Black people experience when we do explore the outdoors, as we saw recently in Central Park. Well, we’ve decided to change that narrative.” By Tamara Shiloh Birdwatching is the observation...

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

On this episode of Take Note, we talked with Tykee James, National Audubon Society Government Affairs Coordinator on congressional bird lobbying, co-organizing Black Birders Week, and the connections between racial equity and birding.