This is Bird Note.

In 2019, several co-workers at the National Audubon Society formed a team for the World

Series of Birding that focused on identifying female birds. They sought to highlight how female

birds have been understudied and unfairly written off as quieter and less interesting,

and they had the perfect name for themselves, the Galpatrosses.

While finding a big list of female birds wasn't easy, the team impressed many other

birders, says Galpatross member Perbita Saha.

It actually raised a lot of excitement, among even the veteran world series competitors.

They were, you know, sending us texts about where we could find female owls and such.

It just really sparked this desire to go out and always look for female birds in us.

Since then, the Galpatrosses have led events about ideing female birds,

which often goes beyond simple differences in color to behavior and sounds.

And they held the first female bird day over Memorial Day weekend in 2020.

From there, the project kept growing, says Galpatross member Joanna Wu.

The effort really gained a lot more traction than I think we expected it to.

My favorite thing about this project is talking to people and having them

have like a light bulb moment of, right, this is information we're like effectively missing

half of the bird's biodiversity.

Learn how to participate in this year's female bird day this weekend on our website,

birdno.org. I'm Connor Gehran.