Guiding Documents

At the core of our work is the desire to welcome, include, and respect everyone who is or wants to be part of the birding community. We are proud to partner with organizations like Feminist Bird Club, Birdability, and others who work hard to shift the way birding is done and who can be part of it. These guiding documents strongly influence our work. We continue to learn, improve our own practices, and build out this page throughout the Club’s existence.

  • Our mission: The BIPOC Birding Club of Wisconsin creates safe spaces for people of color in the outdoors through outdoor birding activities and outdoor experiences. Individuals and families of all ages and at any level of birding experience are invited and encouraged to join us.

  • BIPOC Birding Club of Wisconsin’s heartfelt and sincere Land Acknowledgement Statement

  • “Birding Field Trips for All: Recommendations for maximizing inclusiveness and accessibility outdoors” — focused on improving field trip experiences for individuals who experience vision loss, written by Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance and the Wisconsin Council of the Blind and Visually Impaired

    Cover Photo by Dexter Patterson

A comic created by Freya McGregor (Instagram: @the.ot.birder), capturing an experience members of the BIPOC Birding Club had in northern Wisconsin this summer. Our club is creating community for birders who are otherwise made felt unwelcome in the birding world.

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