Etta Cosey is a birder in the Seattle-area that has built a community of senior birders.  She is an avid learner and brave enough to work on gulls!

Learn more about her here:
Birding is for Everyone: Etta Cosey's Liberating Birding (Seattle Audubon)

Learn more about McKay's Bunting here: Identifying McKay's Bunting (ABA)

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McKay's Bunting
Ingredients
8 oz Hot Chocolate (I used Swiss Miss and Milk)
1 oz Bailey's Irish Cream
1 oz Coffee Liqueur
Toasted Marshmallow

(Mocktail adaptation: use Irish cream flavored syrup and coffee instead of the liqueurs)

Directions
1. Make the hot chocolate
2. Stir in liqueurs
3. Garnish with the toasted marshmallow

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Ana Amable works with the Jacamar Club to create opportunities to empower women birders in Peru and beyond.

Check out some of her work here:
Jacamar Club - Women Birders
Ana's website

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Torrent Duck
Ingredients
1 ½ oz Pisco
.25 oz Lime Juice
2 oz Mango Juice
Ginger Beer
Ice

(Mocktail adaptation: leave out the Pisco)

Directions
1. Fill glass with ice.
2. Pour in the Pisco, lime juice, mango juice, and fill with ginger beer.
3. Gently stir.
4. Enjoy!

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Orietta Estrada is a writer, content creator, and fierce advocate for equity and inclusivity in the birding community. 

Check out some of her work here:
Black & Latinx Birders Scholarship Fund
Orietta's Twitter

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American Woodcock
Ingredients
1 oz Vodka
1 oz hazelnut liqueur
1 oz coffee liqueur
1 oz half and half
Caramel sauce
ice

(Mocktail adaptation: not sure of an adequate replacement for vodka or these liqueurs)

Directions
1.    Prepare an old-fashioned glass by drizzling with caramel sauce, fill with ice.
2.    In a shaker, mix together vodka, hazelnut liqueur, coffee liqueur, and half and half with ice.
3.    Shake shake shake
4.    Pour into prepared glass and top with caramel sauce, garnish with a gummy worm, if you like

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Stephanie Lopez is a passionate naturalist from the Rio Grande Valley. 

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Ingredients
1 oz light rum
1 oz vodka
½ oz cream of coconut
1 oz half and half
Handful of chocolate chips
ice

(Mocktail adaptation: not sure of an adequate replacement for rum or vodka)

Directions
1.    Pour ingredients into a shaker
2.    Shake, shake, shake
3.    Strain into a glass 

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Chidi Paige is a STEM educator and advocate for youth engagement and community building.  She uses games and activities to connect others with birds and wildlife.

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Other notes:
Chidi Paige
Birdwiser
Fledging Birders
Hannah and Erik Go Birding - The Birding Co-op Episode
The Birding Co-op

Ingredients
1 oz Light Rum
1 oz Dark Rum
¼ oz Galliano
2 oz Orange Juice
1 oz Pineapple Juice
Juice from ½ lime
Ice

(Mocktail adaptation: leave out the rums and galliano, add a dash anise flavoring and vanilla to your fruit juices)

Directions
1.    Squeeze lime into a shaker
2.    Add juices, rums, and galliano
3.    Shake well
4.    Strain into a glass with ice

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Cheryl Hogue is a passionate woman birder who advocates for others online and in person.  Her positively and insight is invaluable and is an inspiration to do better and create a diverse community.

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Kowa Women In Steppe
Global Birding

Ingredients
½ cup lemonade
¼ cup ginger beer
1 oz rum
splash Blue Curacao
1 Tb Grenadine
Ice
lemon

(Mocktail adaptation: leave out the rum, use Monin Blue Curacao which is non-alcoholic)

Directions
1. Fill rocks glass with ice
2. Pour in lemonade, blue curacao, and ginger beer
3. Carefully pour in grenadine so it sinks to the bottom
4. Garnish with a lemon slice

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Kate Dolamore is a watercolor artist that uses tiny paintbrushes and fine details to bring her fabulous critters to life on the page.  She is inspired by nature and started painting as a way to become a better birder!

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Ingredients
1 cup of coffee
Preferred amount of ½ and ½ 
1 oz Fernet
½ oz simple syrup
1 squirt lemon juice

(Mocktail adaptation: leave out the fernet, I am not sure of an adequate non-alcoholic substitute that will have a similar flavor.)

Directions
1. Brew a cup of coffee.
2. Pour in the ½ and ½ to your liking, fernet, simple syrup, and a squirt of lemon juice.
3. Stir and enjoy

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Megan Shersby works with the BBC Wildlife Magazine, a wonderful publication that brings readers stories and information about wildlife all over the world.  Megan is a writer and general nature lover that works to bring us these incredible stories about wildlife from English backyards to the tropical rainforests.

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Ingredients
1 shot rum
½ cup guava juice
½ cup orange juice
1 tb grenadine
Juice from ½ lime
Mint leaves
Ice

(Mocktail adaptation: leave out the rum)

Directions
1. Muddle mint leaves in the bottom of a glass.  
2. Fill glass with ice. 
3. Pour in guava and orange juice, rum, grenadine, and juice the lime.  
4. Give it a stir and garnish with an orange slice and mint sprig 

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Bridget Butler, the Birding Diva, is an advocate for outdoor appreciation and conservation through education.  She offers classes in the field and online, talks, and guiding.  Check out the work she has been doing: Bird Diva

Original Indigo Bunting Research

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Ingredients
1 shot cranberry juice cocktail
1 shot blue curacao
Fill champagne/sparkling wine

(Mocktail adaptation: not available for this one)

Directions
1. Mix together the cranberry juice and blue curacao into a cocktail shaker with ice 
2. Strain into a champagne flute
3. Top off with champagne

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Marisa Oliva works in environmental education in the Rio Grande Valley, but has experience sharing a love of the outdoors, recreation, and wildlife with others around the world.  She uses tools and educational games, like Project WILD,  to engage with others.

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Ingredients
1 oz vodka
1 oz lemon juice
8 oz club soda
Juice from half a peach (or ¼ cup peach nectar)
Ice

(Mocktail adaptation: leave out the vodka)

Directions
1. Fill a glass with ice.
2. Add vodka and lemon juice, then top with soda water.
3. Juice a peach into the glass
4. Stir gently and serve.

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