Audubon Everglades Presents
“Birdability: because birding is for everybody and every body!”
Presented by Freya McGregor, OTR/L, CIG, Birdability Coordinator, Contributor on “Talkin Birds” Podcast and National Audubon News, and birder
Tuesday, November 1, 2022, at 7:00 PM
Zoom-Hosted Presentation (Advance registration required)
6:45-7:00 PM Social time with fellow members and presenter
About the Presentation
Birding is an activity that can bring joy and empowerment to everybody, but not every body is able to go birding easily. Learn about Birdability, which is a new non-profit, based in the US but with a global reach. Through education, outreach and advocacy, Birdability works to ensure the birding community and the outdoors are welcoming, inclusive, safe and accessible for everybody. Birdability focuses on people with mobility challenges, blindness or low vision, chronic illness, intellectual or developmental disabilities, mental illness, and those who are neurodivergent, deaf or hard of hearing or who have other health concerns. In addition to current birders, Birdability strives to introduce birding to people with disabilities and other health concerns who are not yet birders so they too can experience the joys of birding. During this presentation, AE participants will learn why this should matter to you (even if you don’t have an accessibility challenge), ways to be a more welcoming and inclusive birder, the Birdability Map (and how to submit a Birdability Site Review) and resources for birders (and potential future birders) with accessibility challenges… because birding is for everybody and every body! You can also learn more and find resources at birdability.org
About presenter Freya McGregor
Freya is the Birdability Coordinator and an occupational therapist, who works in in her spare time for the radio show and podcast Ray Brown’s Talkin’ Birds and has been a contributing writer to National Audubon. Born in Australia and birding since childhood, her ‘dodgy’ knee often creates an accessibility challenge for her. However, since moving to the US in 2016, Freya has observed 505 North America species. With a clinical background in blindness and low vision services, and a desire for enabling all birders and potential future birders to enjoy birding and nature as much as she does, Freya passionately believes that it is time we redefine birding as “the act of enjoying wild birds.”
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