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Birdability is a nonprofit working to make birding and the outdoors accessible and inclusive for everyone, especially those with disabilities!
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Our third video celebrating Birdability Week 2022 features Birdability Captain Ann Marie Geiger who says the first step toward inclusion is awareness. Thanks Ann Marie for your advocacy. Please take a moment to watch her powerful video message and consider supporting Ann Marie and Birdability at out bio link. [Picture Description: Thumbnail photo is of a Scarlet Tanager, brilliant red with black wings and tail, perched on a thin branch.] #BirdabilityWeek2022 #bw2022 #Birdability #DisabledBirders #DisabilityPride by @birdability
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Day two of Birdability Week, and we are so proud of having Jerry Berrier as one of our Birdability Captains. Jerry birds entirely by ear, and in this video, he offers a rare perspective on how he connects with the birds around him. Birdability is dedicated to making natural areas inclusive no matter your disability. We have a wealth of information on how you and your organization can support this important cause and start living your values. Visit our bio link today! [Image Description: Jerry Berrier walking towards camera, wearing a blue jacket, surrounded by other birders.] #BirdabilityWeek2022 #bw2022 #Birdability #DisabledBirders #DisabilityPride by @birdability
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BRIEF BUT SPECTACULAR PRESENTS: IMMERSED WITH VIRGINIA ROSE We tried something new with this one and, boy, did it pay off. Steve, Maria, and Elizabeth traveled to Austin Texas to spend some time with Virginia Rose, founder of Birdability. For our first ever immersive episode, we followed Virginia on Lake Creek Trail to learn about her life, using a wheelchair, independence as a disabled person, and much more. Check it out!! Video description: Virginia, a woman with a kind and enthusiastic disposition, either speaks directly to camera or uses her wheelchair along Lake Creek Trail. She uses binoculars and excitedly calls out the names of various birds as she recognizes their calls. by @birdability
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Birdability Week Is Almost Here! And wow, have you all been busy. In the days ahead, over 150 Birdability Week outings and events are happening in communities across the U.S., in Canada, and all the way to Thailand. There are Big Sits and Little Sits. Slow birding and mindful birding. Accessible trail walks and stationary birding. Programs created with blind and visually impaired birders, d/Deaf and hard of hearing birders, neurodivergent birders, wheelchair users, people with aphasia, people with energy-limiting conditions, and birders with many different disabilities and other health concerns in mind. There is bird bingo in Florida. An owl sit in Chicago and an owl prowl nearby. ASL-interpreted birding in Maryland and Vermont. Birding with Friends of Aphasia in Tucson. Stationary birding with Shepherd Center in Atlanta. A Birdability Site Review Party in California. A birdy fashion show in Maryland. Bird sits at Biosphere 2 and along the Maine coast. Accessible outings from Vermont to Texas, Washington to North Carolina, Rhode Island to Arizona, and so many places in between. And some communities have planned events throughout the entire week. This is what Birdability Week can look like: communities creating more ways to participate, more ways to connect, and more ways to bird where you are. Birdability Week officially begins Monday, October 19, but community events start THIS WEEKEND. Find something happening near you, invite somebody to come along, or choose your own way to bird. All the events are on our webpage https://www.birdability.org/birdability-week October 19–25, 2026 Birdability Week 2026 : Bird Where You Are Image description in comments due to space #BirdabilityWeek #AccessibleAndInclusiveBirding #BirdWhereYouAre #BirdabilityYourWay by @birdability
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North Branch Nature Center is celebrating @Birdability Week with a day of accessible birding on Saturday, October 24! Birdability Week (October 19 - 25) is a celebration of birders with disabilities and other health concerns, and an opportunity to share resources and ideas to help the birding community become accessible, inclusive, and welcoming to everybody. The event at NBNC will include guided bird outings along the Universal Access Trail and meadow trail, and a guided stationary bird watch (a little “Big Sit”). Inside the Nature Center building, check out the bird feeders and learn more about NBNC, @VermontLandTrust, Birdability, @fbc.nvt, and other organizations providing accessible outings and trails and advocating for inclusive birding. Binoculars will also be available for birdwatching, and snacks and cider will be available thanks to a donation by Hunger Mountain Co-op! ♿Accessibility info: The NBNC library will be reserved as a quiet space. Masking is welcomed and extra masks will be available at the door. There will be additional accessible parking spaces for this event. ASL interpretation for bird walks and the Big Sit provided by @vancroiis and donated by @vtcil. Please let us know if you have any accessibility needs we can help accommodate! 🎟️This event is free and open to the public, but please register to let us know you’re coming!. 📆Saturday, October 24 | 1 - 4 pm 🔗https://northbranchnaturecenter.org/event/birdability-event-2026 by @birdability
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October 15 is White Cane Safety Day. White canes create access. They are tools of navigation, information, independence, and identity for many blind and low-vision people. When we talk about making birding accessible to blind and low-vision birders, we need to think beyond whether someone can physically get down a trail. Real access can also include safe and predictable routes, clear information about changes in terrain and obstacles, transportation, useful verbal descriptions, nonvisual information, and people who understand that the cane user gets to decide what assistance they want or need. Seeing someone using a white cane is not an invitation to grab their arm, move their cane, or begin guiding them. Ask before helping. Listen to the answer. Follow their lead. The same principle belongs in accessible birding more broadly: disabled people are the experts in our own access. We know that birding itself has never belonged to only one sense. Birds can be experienced through sound or through movement and vibration. Through tactile tools, technology, memory, description, and shared attention or through sitting quietly and listening to a place come alive (check out our November book club on Birdsong Through the Seasons for that distilled into a book!). As we get ready for Birdability Week, October 19–25, White Cane Safety Day is another opportunity to ask not only, “Can someone get here?” but also, “Have we created meaningful ways for them to participate once they do?” Birdability Week: https://www.birdability.org/birdability-week #WhiteCaneSafetyDay #WhiteCaneDay #BlindBirders #BlindBirding #LowVision #AccessibleBirding #Birdability #BirdabilityWeek2026 #DisabilityInclusion #Accessibility Image description: A seven-slide Birdability “Did You Know?” carousel for White Cane Safety Day. Each slide has a teal-blue background with the white Birdability logo at the top left and a lightbulb graphic with the words “Did You Know?” at the top right. The main text appears inside a large white rounded rectangle. The remaining slide descriptions are in comments due to space limitations. by @birdability
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Fall migration is happening all around us and Birdability Week starts Monday. From October 19–25, Birdability Week celebrates disabled birders and birders with other health concerns and invites all of us to think bigger about access, belonging, and who gets to be part of the birding community. This year’s theme is Bird Where You Are. From bed. From a window or backyard. From your car. From a bench. On an accessible trail. With friends, or on your own. For five minutes or five hours. There is still time to register for our free virtual programs, with ASL interpretation and CART live captioning throughout the week, find an accessible event near you, or make plans for Bird(ability) Your Way Weekend. The birds are moving. Meet them where you are and tell us who you observe during Birdability Week! Learn more and register: https://www.birdability.org/birdability-week ( link in bio! ) #BirdabilityWeek2026 #BirdWhereYouAre #AccessibleBirding #InclusiveBirding #Birdability Image description: Square Birdability Week 2026 graphic on a deep blue background with white and bright blue starburst shapes. In the upper left is the circular Birdability Week 2026 logo. Three large overlapping circles feature migrating birds: a Black-throated Blue Warbler perched on a branch near the top, a White-crowned Sparrow perched on a thin stem at right, and a Common Nighthawk in flight near the bottom. Large white text reads, “The birds are moving. Meet them where you are.” by @birdability
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Birdability Week starts in less than a week! We are so grateful to the sponsors who are helping make Birdability Week possible. Their support helps us offer free virtual programs, accessible outing map and support, resources, community-building, and so many different ways to participate including through ASL interpretation and Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) at all of our virtual panels and programs! Thank you to our 2026 Birdability Week sponsors: Belted Kingfisher Level: Utah State University, Emma Eccles Jones College of Education & Human Services, Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice Northern Cardinal Level: Bird Collective Birds of Houston Vortex Optics Eastern Bluebird Level: Aiken Audubon American Birding Association Denver Audubon Fort Worth Audubon Society Gray's Harbor Audubon Ruby-crowned Kinglet Level: Birding by Ear and Beyond Audubon Society of Rhode Island Buteo Books Collage Home & Community Rehabilitation Partners Cotton Carrier Greensprings Birders New Hampshire Audubon Presque Isle Audubon Texas Ornithological Society The Village at the Triangle Tucson Bird Alliance 2026 Organizational Sponsors: Cornell Lab of Ornithology Wild Birds Unlimited Birdability Week runs October 19–25 with free virtual events, daily virtual birding, accessible outings across the country, Bird(ability) Your Way Weekend, and more. Find all the details, register for programs, explore the events map, and learn how to join us at birdability.org/birdability-week. However and wherever you bird, we hope you will Bird Where You Are with us next week. by @birdability
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“Move at the pace of the slowest birder.” 🌿 Last week on Life in Motion, we talked to Cat Fribley, Executive Director of @birdability, about creating a birding culture where everyone feels welcome, included, and able to enjoy the outdoors. Tune into episode 274 of Life in Motion to hear how Birdability is helping make outdoor experiences more accessible for every birder. Available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. #LifeInMotion #Birdability #Birding #Accessibility #OutdoorAdventure by @birdability
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October 10th is not just World Migratory Bird Day, it’s also World Mental Health Day! Birding can offer moments of grounding, attention, connection, routine, or community. It can also happen alongside anxiety, depression, PTSD, brain injury, grief, or days when capacity is low. On World Mental Health Day, we are making room - again- for honest collective conversations about what helps and what access means when we are talking about mental health and wellness. Birding is not a cure and does not replace care, but it can certainly be one practice among many that helps some people stay connected to themselves and the world. During Birdability Week, join Finding Balance: Self-Care in Birding on October 19 and Birds and Brains on October 24. See the schedule and register : https://www.birdability.org/birdability-week #WorldMentalHealthDay #BirdabilityWeek2026 #BirdWhereYouAre Image description: A square Birdability graphic for World Mental Health Day on a dark blue background. The white Birdability logo is across the top. On the left is a light blue silhouette of a person’s head in profile, with a heart-shaped opening containing the Birdability bird logo. White text on the right has a quote from Kara, one of our panelists for Birding with Energy-Limiting Conditions during Birdability Week: “As a disabled birder myself, living with chronic pain and autoimmune disease, I know how difficult it can be to feel mindful and grounded while living in a body that can be an ongoing source of struggle. Birding offers me a way to reconnect with the joy of being, rather than doing, achieving, or even just surviving.” by @birdability
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Birdability Week is coming up soon! October 19th through the 25th. The IDRPP is sponsoring the event. Birdability Week is a virtual event where birders with a wide range of illnesses and disabilities will share how they engage with birding. @birdability Birdability Executive Director, Cat Fribley, interviewed with us to tell us more about the event. Read more about this awesome event and find resources for Birdability on our blog: https://idrpp.usu.edu/blog/2026/biddability-week-highlights-accessible-birding Birdability Executive Director Cat Fribley sits on a powered scooter on an asphalt trail. Her hand sits under her chin and she smiles. IDRPP Blog, Birdability Week Highlights Accessible Birding. by @birdability
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November’s Birdability Book Club is going to be such a good one. On November 18, 2026 at 7:00 P.M. ET, we’ll be discussing Birdsong by the Seasons: A Year of Listening to Birds by Donald Kroodsma, a book that invites us to pay close attention to birdsong across the year and to the lives unfolding all around us through sound. We are also delighted to share a beautiful new review of the book by Susan Glass, a blind birder, poet, and longtime lover of birds who has returned to this book many times over the years. Susan writes: “I’m 70 years old, and it feels to me as if I’ve loved birds for my entire life, but definitely since before I could talk.” She describes herself as a slow birder who loves bird sits, quiet, and “letting the birds speak to my ears when they are ready to do so.” That perspective makes her reflections on Kroodsma’s work especially rich. Read Susan’s full review at https://www.birdability.org/blog/birdsong-by-the-seasons-susan-glass and register via the link in our bio to join us for this last book club of 2026! And save the date for Birdability Book Club on November 18, 2026. We would love to have you join us, whether you are reading the book for the first time or returning to it again!! #BirdabilityBookClub #BirdsongByTheSeasons #BirdingByEar Image description: A Birdability Book Club graphic with the book cover for Birdsong by the Seasons: A Year of Listening to Birds by Donald Kroodsma. The cover features a bluebird perched on a flowering branch against a soft green background. A partial image of a red cardinal appears along the spine. The date o book club, November 18th, and the title of the book are below the book cover. by @birdability
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