in World News Birdwatcher Calls RSPB Poster ‘Sexist’ for Showing Female Birds as Smaller than Males
by Dylan Gwinn
A teenage birdwatching influencer has taken aim at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) for a poster depicting female members of bird species as smaller than males.
Mya-Rose Craig, 19, known to many as ‘Birdgirl,’ took to Twitter to blast a poster showing different-sized birds as an example of “sexism in birding.”
“If you aren’t into nature, you won’t know that when you go into #birdwatching hides there are often posters up to help you with bird ID,” Craig wrote.
“But why should female birds always be shown as a smaller picture insert?? #Sexisminbirding?”
If you aren’t into nature, you won’t know that when you go into #birdwatching hides there are often posters up yo help you with bird ID. But why should female birds always be shown as a smaller picture insert?? #Sexisminbirding? We need a revolution 😂@Natures_Voice @WWTworldwide pic.twitter.com/3bPTNxdNlG
— Dr Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig (@BirdgirlUK) May 14, 2021