MARTINSBURG — Students participating in the Summer Student Opportunities for Learning Engagement (SOLE) program at Eagle Intermediate School had the opportunity to learn through special LEGO STEM kits.
Murmuration is the Movement: Panelists discuss diversity in birding
CARROLL TOWNSHIP - For Carlos Ross, who was born in the Philippines in 1979 and came to the United States in 1983, the birding experience growing up felt “solitary.”
At the time, birding was viewed as a “white person’s hobby,” not something Ross saw fellow Asian children doing, and that there simply were not a lot of immigrant birder narratives from an Asian American perspective, which is changing now.
“Still, in Texas, I kind of feel like a unicorn,” Ross said.
Ross was among several panelists, all people of color within the birding community working to break down barriers to improve diversity and inclusiveness within the hobby, joining the Black Swamp Bird Observatory’s keynote talk, “Murmuration is the Movement: A Conversation with Bird Lovers and Leaders,” on Saturday as part of the Biggest Week in American Birding.