This is Bird Note.

Megadepa mighty grew up in India on the outskirts of a city that still had pockets of green space

here and there, like their family's garden.

And the birds would flock to it because we'd put in a lot of fruit trees.

They started paying closer attention to one species in particular.

I started noticing that they didn't all look the same.

Some of them were darker, some of them were a bit more like olive gray.

At the time, I just felt like I see these birds every single day and I don't know anything

about them.

I didn't have anybody around me who was a birder.

With their sister, Megadepa searched the web and learned the birds were called Oriental

Magpie Robbins.

The dark black and blue birds were males and the olive gray ones were females.

This species living alongside Megadepa's family helped awaken them to the wider world

of birds.

The Bengali names for them is oil.

There's a lot of poetry and music in Bengal that incorporates nature and once you start

noticing those names in there, it just like changes your perspective.

Megadepa moved to Massachusetts where they're active in the birding community and passionate

about making birding experiences more inclusive.

They've helped create a project called the murmuration that crowdsources info about how

to access birding spots.

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