This is Bird Note.

Molly Adams founded the feminist bird club to try to make birding safer and more inclusive.

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 co-authors Sidney Golden Anderson, Molly wrote a book, white people do not. And our goal is to reduce these obstacles.

Along with co-author 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.

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.

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.

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.org.

I'm Jonies Franklin.