Finding Your Hobby: Birding

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 28, 2024

In this membership-drive mini-series, we get to know about hobbies and building skills and finding communities for fun. Today, Kate Hinds, long-time birding enthusiast and senior producer at All Of It, shares her passion for birding.

  • Kate's list of organizations with information, and gatherings, for birders:

NYC Audubon

American Littoral Society – they work at Sandy Hook, Jamaica Bay, Barnegat Bay

NYC Parks Department  

Urban Park Rangers offers Feminist Bird Club (has chapters in NYC and Jersey City) 

Brooklyn Bird Club

Queens County Bird Club

Jamaica Bay National Wildlife Refuge

Shirley Chisholm State Park

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