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12 April 2025 @ 8:30 am – 10:30 am PDT
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IN-PERSON PROGRAM
Come along to enjoy The Song of Birds with Talaysay Tours! We invite you, our LGBTQ2S+ community, to join us on a cultural walk that focuses on the birds and animals of Áx̱achu7 (Beaver Lake). Like many Indigenous groups, North America-wide, Salish, the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) & sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations see the land, birds, animals, and plants as relatives. Join us to come to connect with nature, self, and community.
Birding with Me was made possible through the financial support of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation’s National Anti-Racism Fund.
ABOUT “BIRDING WITH ME” SERIES
Come Birding with Me and learn about our local birds on free, guided bird walks that celebrate diversity in bird and human communities. Inspired by the National Audubon Society’s Let’s Go Birding Together series, Birding with Me walks welcome in experts and participants of shared identity to explore birding together and meet new people.
BIRD LEADER BIOS
Blythe Wilde: Blythe Wilde (she/they) is an avid birder, early career ornithologist (bird scientist) and multidisciplinary artist. She is based in ch’atlich (Sechelt), the homeland of the shíshálh Nation. She is always seeking to connect people to the natural world and support people in learning and engaging with places, animals and landscapes in respectful and reciprocal ways. They do this in a variety of ways by leading bird outings, tours for Talaysay Tours and creating art that engages science and bird migration. As a queer birder, she is passionate about sharing knowledge with others and creating ways to make birding more inclusive.
Trent Maynard: Trent Maynard is a writer, media artist, filmmaker, and citizen scientist, of mixed settler Canadian ancestry, including Germanic, Celtic & English. They were born and raised and currently live as a guest between shíshálh and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Nation lands. Their art practice makes relationships with Coast Salish ecosystems and our multispecies fellow citizens, using motion-sensor cameras, word art, filmmaking and storytelling collaborations. Their upcoming film Nature Girl (2024), with Talaysay Tours cofounder Candace Campo, ancestral name xets’emits’a (to always be there), spends five years documenting the surprising species living in a wetland in the shíshálh Nation swiya. Trent has a Masters of Science in Geography at the London School of Economics, looking at environmental racism in BC forestry policy. They worked in media at Channel 4 (UK) and the CBC. Their work explores the joy, grief and transformation we experience when connecting to multispecies community.
PROGRAM DETAILS
Accessibility notes: This program requires moving at a moderate pace with moderate inclines on some uneven surfaces down to Beaver Lake (such as gravel and pavement) for up to 1.5 hours. If you have any questions about accessibility, please email publiced@stanleyparkecology.ca
Your Meeting Location is here: Bus Loop (#19 Bus Stop) – Stanley Park. The guide will be ready 10-15 minutes prior to the tour start waiting at the Gazebo right in the bus loop. Please click on (map) and review in advance. This location is adjacent to the Stanley Park Pavilion and near the parking lot for Stanley Park Mini Train Parking lot. The walk will then proceed to Áx̱achu7 (Beaver Lake) and return to the bus loop at the end.
Terms and Conditions
(1) Registration required - NO DROP-INS ARE ALLOWED. This program is free! If you register and no longer can make it, please email us at publiced@stanleyparkecology.ca so we can offer the space to another participant.
(2) Weather – Our tours typically run rain or shine. Rarely, programs may be postponed or cancelled due extreme weather like high winds or extreme heat. We will alert you by email if the program needs to be rescheduled.
The land on which we gather is the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Peoples. Their stewardship and respect for this land has carried forward for thousands of years long before settlers named it “Stanley Park”.