About Us
The Denver & Front Range chapter of the Feminist Bird Club is a community space where birding and social justice come together. Our goal is to create a more inclusive and accessible outdoors while bringing light and support to equity and justice issues.
Join us at monthly outings to discover more about the world of birding and share your love for the outdoors, while meeting friends along the way. No experience or equipment is needed for our outings, we provide binoculars, field guides, and learn from each other on bird identification at each event.
Upcoming Events
All outings require registration unless noted otherwise.
This helps us keep a balance of leaders to participants and ensures we don't crowd the trails.
All event registration occurs on our Eventbrite Page.
Land Acknowledgement
The Denver Front Range primarily sits on the traditional homelands of the people of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, the Northern Arapaho Tribe, the Ute Mountain Tribe, the Southern Ute Tribe, and the Northern Ute Tribe. We also recognize the 48 federally recognized tribal nations and other unrecognized tribes that are historically tied to the lands that make up the state of Colorado. This was a site for trade, gathering, and healing for numerous tribes. We honor Elders of the past, present, and future. We recognize that government, academic and cultural institutions were founded upon and continue to enact exclusions and erasures of Indigenous Peoples. It is our collective responsibility to disseminate knowledge about past and present Native peoples and respect their history pre and post-colonization. May this acknowledgment demonstrate a commitment to working to dismantle ongoing legacies of oppression and inequities and recognize the current and future contributions of Indigenous communities in Colorado.
For more information on Native lands:
The purpose of a land acknowledgment is to recognize the indigenous peoples that were the original stewards of the land we live on and indigenous people that still and will continue the work of preserving Native cultures. It is important to understand the history of the land you live on and continue to learn. We must all actively know how that history has brought us here to this place and the context of your being here. You are on indigenous land. Land acknowledgments do not exist purely in historical context because colonialism is ongoing in the present and will impact the future.
Meet the Team
FBC Denver is run by three women passionate about birds, accessibility and community.
Tany Holzworth (she/her)
Favorite bird: White-breasted Nuthatch
Tany grew up feeding and watching backyard birds with her grandmother but didn't consider herself a "birder" until she was welcomed into the Feminist Bird Club community in 2024.
Tany has a background in special education and inclusive design, and loves how birding is an accessible connection to nature in almost any environment. On a personal level, Tany treats birding as a portal to presence and mindfulness - it's a joy to pay attention to the world around us!
Jane Lee (she/her)
Favorite bird: Blue Jay
Jane has always loved animals, but after a decade as a registered dietitian, healthcare burnout during the pandemic sparked a much-needed change. Everything shifted on her first birding trip: hearing the sweet, flute-like song of a Western Meadowlark (her spark bird) changed her life. She and her partner spent the following year living in a trailer, hiking the Rocky Mountains, and growing her new found passion for birds.
Managing depression and anxiety, Jane finds that birding brings instant calm to her mind and body. She loves guiding outings, info-dumping fun facts whenever she can, and building community with the Feminist Bird Club on upcoming outings!
Lexie Sierra-Martinez (she/her)
Favorite bird: Turkey vulture
Lexie has been a lifelong nature nerd, but discovered birding roughly 8 years ago after starting a career in natural resources in Colorado. Her obsession of birding quickly evolved but she had difficulty finding a like-minded community. After years of thinking there weren't many other birders like her, she heard about the Feminist Bird Club and learned there was more diversity in the birding world than she realized.
In 2020, Lexie reached out to FBC to start a Denver chapter to build a more inclusive community in the Front Range. Together, she and Andie Carillo created the Denver/Front Range chapter and quickly discovered there were many people with similar stories who were craving community -- the rest is history!
Lexie enjoys working with beginner birders and sharing her knowledge of not only birds, but plants too. Outside of birding, you can find her going to concerts, snuggling her pets, and spending time with her family.