This is Bird Note.

In 2019, several coworkers 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 Galbatrosses.

While finding a big list of female birds wasn't easy,

the team impressed many other birders,

says Galbatross member Per Purbita Saha.

It actually raised a lot of excitement among even the like 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 Galbatrosses have led events about IDing 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 Galbatross 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,

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,

Bird Note.org. I'm Connor Gereen.