<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><div><em>Please help us spread the word- </em></div></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><div dir="ltr"><p>Join us for our monthly history series. This year, we're focusing on historically Black and African American neighborhoods.</p><p>This month is the<strong> Spring 2021 Reunion</strong><strong> </strong><strong>on </strong><strong>Friday, June 25, 12 pm-1 pm</strong>. Speakers from Brookstown, The Bottom, College Heights, Merrick Moore, and East End will share more about their communities.</p></div></div></div><div><a href="https://www.durhamcommunityengagement.org/?utm_campaign=ocs_spring_2021_reunion&utm_medium=email&utm_source=durhamnis">https://www.durhamcommunityengagement.org/?utm_campaign=ocs_spring_2021_reunion&utm_medium=email&utm_source=durhamnis</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Committee of New Hope Audubon Society (NHAS) invites you to participate in our Birdability Blitz. Birdability is an organization devoted to ensuring that the birding community and outdoors are welcoming, inclusive, safe, and accessible for everyone. Even if you don't think of yourself as a "birder," birdability is helpful to anyone interested in being outdoors in public spaces. See more at </span><a href="http://birdability.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(26,115,232)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">birdability.org</span></a><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What is Birdability</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Birdability Blitz involves assessing as many local outdoor spots as possible for accessibility. Birdability.org has a map that provides accessibility information for sites but needs volunteers to upload the accessibility information. They provide an easy-to-use template on the website. You can see the map at </span><a href="https://gis.audubon.org/birdability/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(26,115,232)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://gis.audubon.org/birdability/</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, or go to Birdability.org and click on the link at the top for Birdability Map. To get started with adding information to the map, go to </span><a href="https://www.birdability.org/contribute-to-the-birdability-map" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(26,115,232)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.birdability.org/contribute-to-the-birdability-map</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How to participate</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In order to encourage folks to participate in the Blitz, we've created a spreadsheet of local outdoor sites that can be accessed at </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fxJ_SZZmiOQIcGXTjTHecFuM2p1tMzAW/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(26,115,232)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fxJ_SZZmiOQIcGXTjTHecFuM2p1tMzAW/view?usp=sharing</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We encourage you to "adopt" as many sites as you can by entering your name, email address (so we can contact you if we have questions), and the date you "claimed" a site. Some people may have difficulty getting to a site, especially if they don't have easy access to a car. For this reason, we're asking that you include a note in your assessment about whether using public transportation to get to the site is feasible. It will also help us if you would go back and enter the date you submitted the assessment(s) so we can track how we're doing. Please feel free to add sites that you’ve discovered and would like to share!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Safety in the Outdoors / Resources</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In addition to thinking about the accessibility of outdoor spaces for people with physical or health challenges, we encourage you to think about other challenges that people may experience in the outdoors. See </span><a href="https://www.birdability.org/safety-while-birding" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(26,115,232)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.birdability.org/safety-while-birding</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and </span><a href="https://www.birdability.org/blog/why-we-have-a-safety-question-in-the-new-birdability-site-review" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(26,115,232)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.birdability.org/blog/why-we-have-a-safety-question-in-the-new-birdability-site-review</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> for more about this. Birdability will be adding questions in the assessment template for information about safety. In the meantime, feel free to add comments that are relevant. Some challenges to consider: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><ul style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Women may not feel safe going to more remote areas alone, or to areas that are in town but not heavily frequented or not well-lit. Feel free to make comments about that issue in your notes.</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><ul style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">People who identify as LGBTQIA+ may not feel safe in public places, depending on the social environment.</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><ul style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Black, Indigenous, and People of Color may not feel safe going to areas where they are likely to be questioned or challenged about their presence, or where there are other concerns related to racism and the history of racism and the outdoors in this country. If you'd like to read or watch more about these issues, here are some resources:</span></p></li><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:11pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(3,3,3);background-color:rgb(249,249,249);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In this video, Delphine Sellars and Diquan Edmonds join Historic Stagville Site Manager Vera Cecelski in conversation at Horton Grove. Each speaker represents an organization that keeps and cares for land that was formerly part of the Cameron plantations: Historic Stagville State Historic Site, Catawba Trail Farm, and Triangle Land Conservancy’s Horton Grove Nature Preserve. They share the different ways each of them seeks to transform plantation land into spaces for healing, through land conservation, community agriculture, and public history. Their talk was recorded on the grounds of Horton Grove, the only surviving slave dwellings from the Bennehan and Cameron plantations.</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xopIwhlLQ6g" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(26,115,232)"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(3,3,3);background-color:rgb(249,249,249);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xopIwhlLQ6g</span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:11pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Birdwatching was seen as a White man’s hobby. These people are reclaiming it.</span><a href="https://www.thelily.com/birdwatching-was-seen-as-a-white-mans-hobby-these-people-are-reclaiming-it/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(26,115,232)"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.thelily.com/birdwatching-was-seen-as-a-white-mans-hobby-these-people-are-reclaiming-it/</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(3,3,3);background-color:rgb(249,249,249);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:11pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/25270743/273321654/393480349?ms=aud-email-advocacy_(nc)_feb_edi_email&utm_source=ea&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=advocacy_(nc)_feb_edi_email&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9UU00vVFNNQVUvMS81NzE1NSIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZCI6ICI1ZWE4OTg3Ni03OTczLWViMTEtOTg4OS0wMDE1NWQ0M2M5OTIiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXNzIjogIm1hcmNpYW1hbmRlbDFAZ21haWwuY29tIg0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=m_2qk9I4SIlcIkss_nm5_JNQCJqXgAdWujUxiMe1E2M=&emci=36fd9cf6-fd72-eb11-9889-00155d43c992&emdi=5ea89876-7973-eb11-9889-00155d43c992&ceid=34167" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(26,115,232)"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(5,131,175);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">At Francis Beidler Forest, Stories of the Formerly Enslaved Mingle with Nature</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:11pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/25270744/273321655/320657982?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9UU00vVFNNQVUvMS81NzE1NSIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZCI6ICI1ZWE4OTg3Ni03OTczLWViMTEtOTg4OS0wMDE1NWQ0M2M5OTIiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXNzIjogIm1hcmNpYW1hbmRlbDFAZ21haWwuY29tIg0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=m_2qk9I4SIlcIkss_nm5_JNQCJqXgAdWujUxiMe1E2M=&emci=36fd9cf6-fd72-eb11-9889-00155d43c992&emdi=5ea89876-7973-eb11-9889-00155d43c992&ceid=34167" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(26,115,232)"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(5,131,175);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Graduate student Corina Newsome on encouraging the Black community to engage in nature</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:11pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/23169969/266737411/-569777196?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9UU00vVFNNQVUvMS81NzE1NSIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZCI6ICJmYWMxYWFhOS0wZDRhLWViMTEtYTYwNy0wMDE1NWQ0M2M5OTIiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXNzIjogIm1hcmNpYW1hbmRlbDFAZ21haWwuY29tIg0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=SfAvL9bqsLZKHkB3jU5GevZhPzQazg5gPcBvnurILXc=&emci=a5b64a9b-f949-eb11-a607-00155d43c992&emdi=fac1aaa9-0d4a-eb11-a607-00155d43c992&ceid=34167" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(26,115,232)"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(5,131,175);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Black Birders Week discussion panel 1</span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:11pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/23169970/266737413/-2028143307?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9UU00vVFNNQVUvMS81NzE1NSIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZCI6ICJmYWMxYWFhOS0wZDRhLWViMTEtYTYwNy0wMDE1NWQ0M2M5OTIiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXNzIjogIm1hcmNpYW1hbmRlbDFAZ21haWwuY29tIg0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=SfAvL9bqsLZKHkB3jU5GevZhPzQazg5gPcBvnurILXc=&emci=a5b64a9b-f949-eb11-a607-00155d43c992&emdi=fac1aaa9-0d4a-eb11-a607-00155d43c992&ceid=34167" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(26,115,232)"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(5,131,175);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Black Birders Week discussion panel 2</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:11pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(28,30,33);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Safe In Nature - A Black Birders Week 2021 Event <a href="https://www.facebook.com/NationalAudubonSociety/videos/3815294578581855/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(26,115,232)">https://www.facebook.com/NationalAudubonSociety/videos/3815294578581855/</a></span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:11pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Black Faces, White Spaces by Carolyn Finney</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:11pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Articles by Dr. Drew Lanham, an ornithologist who writes and speaks about these issues: </span><a href="https://www.audubon.org/content/j-drew-lanham" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(26,115,232)"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.audubon.org/content/j-drew-lanham</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:11pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mapping Migraciones: a  </span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(48,78,78);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">project by Audubon and Latino Outdoors celebrating Latinidad, migration, and the stories that connect us across the globe. </span><a href="https://latinooutdoors.org/mapping-migraciones/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(26,115,232)"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoratio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