Write for the Birdability Blog

Share your experiences with us! We love uplifting the stories and experiences of birders who have disabilities and other health concerns, and people working to make birding and the outdoors more inclusive and accessible.

We hope other birders (and potential future birders!) with similar accessibility challenges will learn from you, and feel more empowered to go birding. We also hope birders who are able-bodied/sighted/hearing/neurotypical will learn from your story how they can be more welcoming and inclusive, or what accessibility features are important for different birders.

If you’d like to submit to the Birdability Blog, please send us:

• 300-1000 words in the form of a blog post, with a title!

• A photo of you (ideally taken while you’re birding!) we can use on social media to help share about your blog post.

• A brief bio of you (two or three sentences) including where you live and what kind of accessibility challenge you have.

• Photos (if possible) related to what you write about, to help illustrate your guest blog post.

Ideas for your blog post

It helps readers if you can keep to one or two main themes for a blog post, so if you have more to share, try to separate them into different blog posts. If you have a lot to share about, don’t worry! You can write for the Birdability Blog more than once!

• A story about one experience you’ve had birding (good or bad) that’s related to your accessibility challenge.

• Educating readers about a particular thing (for example, why closed captioning is important to you, and how to add them to videos) that enables you to participate in the birding community or the outdoors.

• Adaptive birding equipment you use, why you find it helpful, and how others can buy it or build it themselves.

• What’s the most difficult situation you encounter when you’re birding? Why? What do you do?

• Tell us (and show us with photos, if you can!) your most successful challenging birding situation and how you managed.

• Introduce your inclusive and accessible bird programming, what you do, why you do it, how you set it up, and the feedback and engagement you’ve had as a result. We hope that by sharing your program through our Birdability Blog, other people will be inspired to replicate a similar program in their local community.

  Please note: we may need to do some slight editing for clarity.

If you’d like to write for us, please send your submission and photo/s to info@birdability.org We look forward to hearing from you!