Cool Science Photos: #BlackBirdersWeek

Science by JoAnna Wendel June 6, 2020

Shutterstock The first week of June 2020 marked the first annual Black Birders Week , celebrating Black birders, scientists, and nature-lovers.

“Black people who enjoy the outdoors are actively prevented from doing so. There are systemic barriers, especially racism,” co-organizer Danielle Belleny told Inverse in a Q&A .

SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images Here are some amazing photos snapped by Black birders this week.

Bird enthusiast and photographer Darren Cook captured this photo of a Western Tanager. You can check out more bird photos on his Instagram here .

Herpetologist Earyn McGee caught a photo of three Mexican Spotted Owls while “hanging out in the Chiricahua Mountains.” Follow her on Twitter here .

Artist Walter Kitundu celebrated urban birds with a photo of a Red-Tailed Hawk. You can follow him here .

Biologist and avid birder Merlyn Nomusa Nkomo snapped this photo of a Secretary Bird while in Zimbabwe. You can follow her here .

Photographer Jerome E. Foster snapped this photo of a Red-necked Amazon parrot, one of two endemic parrots in Dominica. You can follow him here .

Ecologist Tatenda Dalu took this dramatic photo of a Martial Eagle in South Africa (an earlier version of this story misidentified the eagle). Check out his website here .

Evolutionary Biologist Janet Charray Buckner was in Kenya when she captured this photo of an Egyptian Goose. You can follow her Twitter here .

Cool Science Photos: #BlackBirdersWeek

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