Birdability Birders: Conversations about Birding with Access Challenges. Episode 5: Day Scott.

Birdability and American Bird Conservancy (ABC) are co-hosting an online interview series aiming to promote accessibility, inclusion, and representation within the birding community.

Throughout the series, interviewees will discuss their experience with birding, what everyday life is like living with their disability or other health concern, and what they need from the birding community and birding locations for them to feel welcome, included, and able to access birding locations.

The fifth episode will feature Day Scott. Day Scott (she/her) is a certified California and Wyoming naturalist, wildlife photographer, writer, and environmental educator. Her passion in ornithology has led to amazing opportunities including her work being featured on Discovery and BBC America in addition to teaching a bird photography workshop at The Biggest Week in American Birding festival. Though still navigating through her traumatic brain injury (TBI) recovery and adjusting to a lifestyle with disabilities, she’s discovering her voice for storytelling, an affinity for birds and the bravery to stand out and dare greatly through it all. Day continues to find joy through her connection with nature.

Closed captions and an American Sign Language interpreter will be provided. The series is free to attend, but registration is required. Register to attend the fifth episode here.

New interviews will be held live online on the first Tuesday of every month, 6-7.30pm Eastern, from October 2021 to March 2022. You can read more about the series, upcoming guests and access recorded interviews here.