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With patience and binoculars, Ugandan women build jobs as birders

Birding guide Abia Atukwatse (right) is a member of Uganda Women Birders, which formed to increase the number of women participating in nature guiding, a field typically dominated by men.

A slight figure stepping lightly through the rainforest, Abia Atukwatse chirrups and cheeps. Sometimes she hoots and coos. Or she whoops and whistles. Then she stops and keeps her eyes peeled.

Ms. Atukwatse is a birder. But not just any kind of birder. She belongs to the all-female Uganda Women Birders group. And in Mabira Forest’s world-renowned birders’ paradise, she says, women do bird guiding differently.

“Ladies naturally pay

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