Name: Fort Tilden with Feminist Bird Club and the NYC Plover Project
Start: 2023-04-15T10:00:00-04:00
End: 2023-04-15T12:00:00-04:00
Location: Fort Tilden (Gateway National Recreation Area)

Fort Tilden with Feminist Bird Club and the NYC Plover Project

Founded in 2016,Feminist Bird Clubis dedicated to promoting inclusivity in birding while fundraising and providing a safe opportunity for members of the LGBTQIA+ community, BIPOC, and women to connect with the natural world. Since then, the Feminist Bird Club has expanded to chapters across North America and in the Netherlands.Our goal is two-fold: Make birding and the outdoors inclusive and affirming to people who may not have safe access to it, and leverage people’s passion for the environment and social justice to help create lasting social change. More simply put: There is no reason why we can’t celebrate birds and support our most cherished beliefs in equity and justice at the same time. For us, it’s not either/or.

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Join FBCs Jen Kepler of FBC and the NYC Plover Project to peep our favorite peeps.

Fort Tilden (Gateway National Recreation Area)

Join the Feminist Bird Club and NYC Plover Project (NYCPP) on an outing at Fort Tilden Beach on April 15th from 10am-12pm, led by Jen Kepler. We will be looking for some of our local plovers, observe their behaviors, and also observe other birds on the beach. We will also have the chance to discuss the role of NYCPP along the Gateway Beaches, how to become a volunteer, and how to share the shore as a beach-goer with our avian neighbors.Accessibility notes: The beach is soft sand and it can be difficult at times, even on foot. We will be traveling on fairly inaccessible landscape. Bathroom access is available at the Riis Beach Boardwalk, no bathrooms will be available during the outing.Fort Tilden can be reached by car (parking is free at Riis at this time) and then traveling west along the boardwalk until its and at Beach 169th street. Fort Tilden can also be reached by taking the Q35 bus and walking south along Beach 169th street until you reach the boardwalk.This outing will begin at Beach 169th street, where the boardwalk ends.The beach can be extreme in its conditions, it can be still quite cold this time of year and windy, layers are highly advised! Sunscreen is highly suggested and/or hats.Tickets are Free or by donation. If you select the donation option, that counts as a ticket, so no need to also add a free ticket unless you need more than one. *If you would like to borrow a pair of binoculars, please contact us at least 24hrs before the event. Land acknowledgement: We recognize and appreciate that Fort Tilden lies on land that has been stewarded by generations of the Canarsie and Munsee Lenape People. Today many of their descendants live in and around NYC and the Northeast.Image Description: A Piping Plover, head on. It&#x27;s a very round small shore bird with little orange legs, adorable beady eyes and a yellow beak tipped in black. It&#x27;s standing on a sandy beach.

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