He throws a blue jay up on the screen and I literally was in class and I was like,

what is that?

And everybody looked at me and was like a blue jay.

I had never I had never in my life because I'm like that's a parrot is what that is to me when I look at that.

You know what I'm saying?

All those shades of blue, the white, the black, like,

I'm like, that bird can't be out here.

Immediately after that class Shelby, I went outside and they were everywhere.

And that's what I realized, simply me not being educated and not knowing has shielded me

from seeing all of this incredible diversity and I have been chasing birds ever since.

bird watching? I didn't get it at first.

When I thought of bird watching, I pictured old dudes dressed in khaki vests, zip off pants and wide-brim hats with some binoculars dangling from their neck standing still and quiet on the side of the trail.

But Karina Newsom, she's shown me a whole different perspective.

Kreen is a 27 year old black woman from Pennsylvania

with a master's degree in ornithology which is the study of birds.

She also has a ton of style.

She's not the type to wear khaki vests in the field. I'm Shelby Stanger and this is wild ideas worth living.

Karina has been featured in National Geographic in the New Yorker magazine.

She's written articles for the National Audubon Society,

and she acts as the community outreach manager for Georgia Audubon.

She started bird watching in her early 20s and she's always been an advocate for diversifying

the field. I mean, birds are diverse, the people studying them should be too. That's why

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