Welcome to the 10th episode of The BirdGuides Podcast. Today, David and Josh are joined by Alicia Hulland and Tasha Noble from The Birding Girlies to talk about their birdwatching community and social media movement that they created to make the hobby fun, supportive and accessible for women and girls.

In this episode

• How The Birding Girlies began.
• The early birding lifes of Alicia and Tash.
• What The Birding Girlies stands for.
• The invisible barriers that women face within birding.
• What the future holds for The Birding Girlies and how you can follow.

Episode timestamps

00:50 – Introducing The Birding Girlies

03:50 – Spark birds

08:15 – The slippery slope of twitching

13:36 – How The Birding Girlies began

25:00 – The perils of social media

30:40 – Advice for men

37:27 – What the future holds

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