Birdability Week

Monday, October 20 - Sunday, October 26, 2025

Birding truly is for everybody and every body, regardless of disability or other health concerns.

Through education, outreach and advocacy, Birdability works to ensure the birding community and the outdoors are welcoming, inclusive, safe and accessible for everybody. The focus is on people with mobility challenges, blindness or low vision, chronic illness, intellectual or developmental disabilities, mental illness, and those who are neurodivergent, deaf or hard of hearing or who have other health concerns. Our hope is to introduce birding to people with disabilities and other health concerns who are not yet birders so they too can experience the joys of birding.

We need our physical environment to be accessible, and we need our social, cultural and institutional environments to be welcoming, safe and inclusive for all those potential new birders so they know they are genuinely wanted, and to make sure they come back!

You don't need a lot to start birding-just a good pair of binoculars, a desire to be outdoors, and a destination; like Connetquot!

The 5th annual Birdability Week will be held October 20-26, 2025 and we invite everyone to join us at Connetquot at 9:00 am on Sunday October 26th to do a little bit of bird watching! The hike will be on easy terrain, suitable for everyone and we'd love to have you come out for a morning of beginning birding!

Connetquot has binoculars, along with Birding Checklists and booklets to borrow to help you identify the many species commonly seen in New York State!

RSVP using the form below.