#ImABirder social media graphics and instructions

Monday October 18, 2021: Help us celebrate Birdability Week by sharing #ImABirder on social media. Birding is the act of enjoying wild birds. This means that anyone who enjoys wild birds is a birder! Help us celebrate the diversity of birders by sharing something about you as a birder using the worksheet or social media graphics, below.

Are you a birder who goes birding with your two year old, and so you need other birders to be kind and understanding when they make a lot of noise? Perhaps you’re a birder who just started birding and you’re proud that now you can identify ten birds by sight and sound! Or maybe you’re a birder who cannot stand for very long after your hip replacement, so you like birding from benches? Let’s celebrate the diversity of birders, together!

Below are printable and downloadable graphics which can be personalized to show your connection to birding! Remember to use the hashtag #ImABirder and to tag @birdability!

The possibilities are endless – there is no birder exactly like you. Be proud and show the world how everybody and every body can be a birder!  Find links to the printable document and pre-formatted digital graphic for specific social media platforms below.

1. Download the Printable #ImABirder PDF file here.

2. Print out the graphic and personalize with words, pictures, drawings or however you’d like to represent yourself as a birder.

3. Take a photo with your personalized #ImABirder page and post to social media with the #ImABirder and tag @birdability!

1. Download the #ImABirder graphic here or take a screenshot of the blank template from the @birdability Instagram post.

2. Edit the image on your phone to reflect yourself as a birder.

3. Open Instagram App.

4. Click the '+' on the top right of your screen.

5. Click 'Post'.

6. At the bottom of the screen select the 'Gallery' button.

7. Select your personalized #ImABirder graphic and post to your feed. Make sure to add the hashtag #ImABirder and tag @birdability!

1. Download graphic here, or take a screen shot from @birdability’s Story of the blank template.

2. Open Instagram and click the '+' icon in the top right.

3. Click the 'Story' button.

4. Scroll down to the bottom and click the small picture icon in the bottom left of the screen.

5. This will bring up your phone’s photo gallery which should contain your newly downloaded graphic. Click on it.

6. Use the editing features in the top right of the screen to add stickers, emojis, use the pen tool to draw or write to personalize your graphic with things that make you a birder!

7. When you are happy with your graphic click the 'Send to' button on the bottom right of your screen and select ‘Story’ to share on your Instagram Story.

8. Don't forget to include the #ImABirder #BirdabilityWeek2021 and to tag @birdability!

1. Download the #ImABirder Twitter graphic here.

2. Personalize your graphic by using your phone’s photo editing abilities to add text or using the pen tool, emojis, etc.

3. Open Twitter.

4. Click the blue circle with a plus sign located in the bottom right of your screen.

5. You will not be drafting a tweet. At the bottom of the screen you will find the most recent pictures from your gallery. Find and click your personalized graphic.

6. Add text to your tweet, add the hashtag #ImABirder and tag @birdability. Don’t forget to add alternative text so your tweet is screen reader accessible!

7. Click the 'tweet' button in the upper right corner of your screen to publish your tweet.

1. Download graphic here.

2. Open Facebook.

3. Click inside your Status Bar or click the green photo icon to the right of the Status Bar.

4. Select the #ImABirder graphic from your photo gallery.

5. Personalize your post with the editing tools found by clicking the 'edit' button in the top left corner of the photo.

6. Post to your Facebook page by clicking 'Post' button in the upper right corner.

7. Don't forget to include the hashtag #ImABirder and tag @birdabiltiy! (You can tag an organization by typing in “@birdability” and selecting Birdability from the drop down menu that appears. A faint blue highlight will appear around the word “Birdability” in your caption.)

1. Download graphic here.

2. Open Facebook and go to home page.

3. Toward the top of your screen, under the status bar, click on the ‘Add to Story’ button. (If you don't have anything in your Story it should appear as your profile picture.)

4. Select the #ImABirder graphic you downloaded in Step 1.

5. Edit the graphic with the pen tool, stickers, emojis, effects, and typed fonts to personalize the graphic

6. When you are done with your personalization click the 'Share' button on the bottom right of your screen and share with your community.

7. Don't forget to use the #ImABirder hashtag and tag @birdability!

Photo in page header taken by Freya McGregor, Proctor Road Trail, Madera Canyon, Arizona.