Understanding how birding improves well-being can help us plan activities that promote wellness and connectedness.
Experiences of awe and social connection can help us feel more open, collaborative, and interconnected.during the height of the Covid pandemic, I discovered birding and have continued to grow my interest and enjoyment since 2020. Besides noticing mental health and mood benefits myself, others have regularly shared articles with me about the benefits of birding.
As Peterson and colleagues note, demonstrating that birding enhances mental health does not tell us why birding has this effect—and determining the underlying reasons could help us identify ways to interact with birds that can heighten this positive impact. The authors refer to environmental psychologist Melissa Marselle and colleagues’ of how biodiversity may benefit human health to identify potential explanations for their findings.
So, is there something you can do in the next week to reduce your stress, enhance your attention, elicit a sense of awe, or promote social connection? Perhaps take a walk and look for birds!Peterson,M.N., Larson, L.R., Hipp, A., Beall, J.M., Lerose, C., Desrochers, H., Lauder, S.,Torres, S., Tarr, N.A., Stukes, K., Stevenson, K., & Martin, K. L. .
Marselle, M.R., Hartig, T., Cox, D.T.C., de Bell, S., Knapp, S., Lindley, S., Triguero-Mas,M., Böhning-Gaese, K., Braubach, M., Cook, P.A., de Vries, S., Heintz-Buschart, A., Hofmann, M., Irvine, K.N., Kabisch, N., Kolek, F., Kraemer, K., Markevych, I., Martens, D., ... Bonn, A. . Pathways linking biodiversity to human health: A conceptual framework.
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