17 May 2026 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am PDT
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IN-PERSON PROGRAM
Join our Birding with Me program! Get to know our local feathered friends during the Greater Vancouver Bird Celebration while in community outdoors. Led by local birder Syd Burstein, this program will guide participants through encounters with the birds found in Stanley Park. Keep your eyes and ears tuned for hummingbirds, the first migratory warblers, colourful ducks, and more! No experience necessary, and participants will be able to borrow binoculars.
This event is reserved specifically for 2SLGBTQ+ individuals, in order to provide a safe and inclusive space to explore birding and nature.
This event is part of the Greater Vancouver Bird Celebration!
LEADER BIO
Sydney (or Syd!) is the founder behind Vancouver Queer Birders (VQB) and a lifelong fan of noticing things. For her, birding is a way to situate yourself in the world. It’s an opportunity notice the ebb and flow of the world around you, and feel yourself become a part of it.
Vancouver Queer Birders has been an opportunity to share this feeling with the 2SLGBTQ+ community; to provide small, monthly moments of community, joy, and awe can be so important in a world that can feel so heavy, especially for queer folks. Syd and her partner Ashley have worked to make VQB a welcoming space for diverse people to come together, share knowledge, and celebrate the beauty and diversity of birds. If she’s not actively birding, you can find her drawing birds, quilting birds, reading about birds, and overall really needing to expand her circle of interests.
ABOUT THE GREATER VANCOUVER BIRD CELEBRATION
Get more familiar with the birds around us during the Greater Vancouver Bird Celebration! Organized by a collection of non-profits, artists, and other institutions, the Celebration is a two-week series of events to appreciate the bird species of Greater Vancouver. Events are open to all and most are free, with programs including bird-related workshops, walks, talks, exhibitions, and lectures. Check out all the events here: https://vancouverbirdcelebration.ca/
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.
PROGRAM DETAILS
Accessibility notes: This program will move at a gentle-moderate pace on a mostly level path around Lost Lagoon on concrete, gravel, and dirt trails with a few moderate inclines. If you have any questions or input about accessibility, please email publiced@stanleyparkecology.ca
This program will meet at the Nature House on Lost Lagoon (located near the intersection of Alberni and Chilco Street, underneath the viewing platform). Please arrive 5 minutes early to sign in.
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”.