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As we embrace the 2025 theme, "Grounded in Community," we recognize that true belonging means creating spaces where everyone can bird freely -- without fear, without limits.

In solidarity, today and always.
The Black AF in STEM Collective
#PRIDE2025 #PrideMonth #BlackBirdersWeek2025

#BlackBirdersWeek #BirdOfTheDay #SongSparrow

📸 Share your Song Sparrow stories or photos! Have you heard their melodies in your neighborhood? Let’s celebrate how birds and people thrive when we uplift each other’s voices.

#BlackBirdersWeek #BirdOfTheDay #SongSparrow #blacksky #environmentaljustice #birds #birding #ornithology #nature

🐦Every voice has purpose: Their melodies, expressed through the fun mnemonic "Maids! Maids! Put on your tea-kettle-ettle!", stitch together the soundscape of wetlands, backyards, and urban parks, just as Black voices enrich the tapestry of conservation.

Song Sparrows remind us that:
🐦Diversity strengthens the chorus: Each bird sings 10+ unique song variations, with regional "accents" from Alaska to Mexico.

🐦Persistence matters: They sing year-round, even in winter, echoing the enduring spirit of Black birders, scientists, and nature lovers.

A feathered embodiment of resilience, regional pride, and the power of many voices coming together. The Song Sparrow is one of North America’s most talented and persistent singers!

#conservation #blackbirders #scicomm #sciart #science #biology

✅ Celebrate Black joy in nature
✅ Observe the birds around you (Be sure to tag us in your photos!)
✅ Reflect on how you’ll carry this work forward

#BlackBirdersWeek2025 #GroundedInCommunity

Today marks the last day of Black Birders Week 2025, but the spirit of this movement lives on every day. We encourage everyone to get outside, whether in a city park, your backyard, or a trail to:

Harmonize your passion with the flock! Call out barriers, pass down wisdom, and amplify our symphony of Black joy in nature. The chorus is now, and the future’s listening.

THOUGHTFUL PERSPECTIVE...We can observe House Sparrows with:
🐦Compassion – They didn’t choose to be invasive
🐦Responsibility – Their spread reflects human decisions, not the birds’ fault
🐦Wisdom – Their story reminds us to consider how future introductions might affect ecosystems

📸 Have you noticed these little characters in your neighborhood? Share your House Sparrow stories below!

READ MORE:
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House Sparrows thrived not through malice, but through human disruption of existing ecosystems. They filled an ecological niche created by urbanization and agriculture, displacing some native birds not because they’re "bad," but because they’re tragically well-adapted to human-altered landscapes.

These resourceful birds hitched rides with European settlers in the 1850s, becoming one of the first invasive bird species in the New World.

House Sparrows are master adaptors:
• Some urban populations have developed genetic resistance to heavy metal pollution (Learn more -- LINKS IN BIO)
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