Special Bird Service Society

Special Bird Service Society Providing access to education, recreation & stewardship opportunities for our Global Majority & Q***r communities🍥

At the Special Bird Service Society we exist to hold space for one another, provide educational resources and challenge stereotypes by elevating the various diaspora of BIPOC & 2SLGBTQ+ community’s histories, voices and values, in nature. Through a decolonizing, anti-racism centred approach, we base our society’s actions on our commonly held principles of; ecological stewardship, mental health adv

ocacy, equitable access to education, as well as food justice and security advocacy. Through connection-forming, relationship building and generational knowledge transfer, we aim to normalize marginalized communities use of the great outdoors through providing access and education. Thereby reclaiming our connection and access to nature, as a recreational healing space, by offering organised bird watching walks, hikes, outdoor adventures and community, connection-building events.

06/13/2026

Do you think they’re gonna know? - this heron probably

Morning Blues 📍White Lake,Syilx Territory 📸
06/06/2026

Morning Blues 📍White Lake,
Syilx Territory



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last minute call out! to all Global Majority (Black, Indigenous & People of Colour) community members in the so-called v...
06/05/2026

last minute call out! to all Global Majority (Black, Indigenous & People of Colour) community members in the so-called victoria area

join us at 10am at Mt Tolmie tomorrow morning for a free community birding walk, bring a dish, take a plate style pic nic (bring a bowl & utensil) & hangout. DM us for meet location! open to self identifying racialized folks only at this time, thank you😊

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06/02/2026

choose your optics! Nocs Provisions

Our newest SBS Member Roman, showing us how it’s done🕺🏾

ever seen a (YHBL) yellow-headed blackbird before? come hang with the bird gang this sunday, may 31st at iona beach on h...
05/29/2026

ever seen a (YHBL) yellow-headed blackbird before? come hang with the bird gang this sunday, may 31st at iona beach on hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speaking peoples territory. say goodbye to spring and hello to summer, from 10am-1pm, join us in our search for the yellow-headed black birds that frequent the parking lot and picnic tables. no experience or binoculars necessary, and all welcome at this free community birding walk in so called richmond. sign up link & more info available in bio🔗🎫



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You’ve seen her babies! Now get a look at mama kestrel, what a beautiful bird! We can’t wait to see her little fluff bal...
05/25/2026

You’ve seen her babies! Now get a look at mama kestrel, what a beautiful bird! We can’t wait to see her little fluff balls grow up in the coming weeks, months & beyond🐦

all kestrels handled under applicable provincial & federal permits 📄

want to get involved with future iterations of the project? join the AMKE community science project led by 🫱🏼‍🫲🏾



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05/19/2026

Submissions from last weekends Scream Like a Gull Competition organized by & MC’d by in celebration of World Migratory Bird Day at míqen, lək̓ʷəŋən territory

& on the road this week on Syilx Territory, in the Okanagan for tour open to all🐦Join us at Sun-Oka Provincial Park, ...
05/12/2026

& on the road this week on Syilx Territory, in the Okanagan for tour open to all🐦

Join us at Sun-Oka Provincial Park, May 18th for a half day - Intro to Birding workshop, as always event links available through the link in our bio🔗🎫

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05/07/2026

Have you met W̱SÁNEĆ Land Steward SNEMIŦIYE Dominique James yet?

Come to our Mother’s Day walk Sunday May 10th at Summit Hill in so called Victoria for a Global Majority, community birding & plant walk. This walk is open to self identifying BIPOC folks, & their loved ones only at this time. Link available to signup in our bio - Looking forward to seeing you outside this weekend!

Dominique is fundraising for camas camp on Whidby Island next weekend, mutual aid request donate directly to SNEMIŦIYE by etransfering: [email protected] 100% of proceeds go directly to getting Dominique & her family to this amazing cultural & traditional knowledge exchange

HÍSW̱ḴE SIÁM for sharing with us, it’s always a pleasure learning from & with you, SNEMIŦIYE. We come away with so much...
05/04/2026

HÍSW̱ḴE SIÁM for sharing with us, it’s always a pleasure learning from & with you, SNEMIŦIYE. We come away with so much knowledge imparted, from language to plants, to natural history to food & anything in between. We can’t thank you enough for your sharing with us & our members last month especially about ḰȽO¸EL (Camas) & its importance to you, your communities & Indigenous Peoples from near to very far.

As part of our community work at SBS, we’re helping organizer another fundraiser for Dominique & her family to attend cultural knowledge exchange program focused on ḰȽO¸EL on Whidby Island with her relatives. It’s important that as a community that engages a wide range of facilitators including Indigenous Knowledge Holders like Dominique, that we also support their opportunities to learn & be facilitated for, especially in inter-generational, culturally relevant, informed & safe spaces like the one is attending.

We’ve got a video coming shortly to explain the fundraiser in full, in the meantime - you can donate directly to & 100% of donations are going to her & her families costs in attending a Camas Culture Camp this month, in the states including travel, food & lodging. E-transfer: [email protected]

photos by from earlier this spring’s Camas Meadow Medley facilitated by Dominique

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