The October ‘22 issue of American Birding Association’s Birding magazine features my article about the emergence of demographic-specific birding trips and how they’re opening up a safe space for new participants. Sisterhood of the Traveling Birders: Birding Tours For Women is about all-women, organized birding travel, and includes the voices of birder peers who take these trips, industry experts, and professional guides. These contributors provide convincing testimony for why demographic-specific birding trips are worth talking about and planning.

I share my own observations as a media participant on the Dec. 2019 inaugural “Female Birders Flocking to Colombia” tour, a guest of Nature Colombia and ProColombia. It is the additional voices populating this story which give it weight and relevance beyond anything I could provide as one person going on one trip, however.

Read on to learn how travel with sister birders can provide a very different birding experience from that of a mixed-gender tour, and provide a new baseline for organized birding travel.