Translate the secret language of nature together.
Tails Talk Birds began with a simple desire to understand what the birds in my own backyard were saying and the realization that nature becomes infinitely more meaningful when shared.
I'm devoted to creating nature experiences that inspire connection, conversation and conservation.
Share a ready-to-deliver nature experience with your group: Available now: The Hummingbird
Sign up for The Naturalist Table, a weekly listening experience exploring the amazing phenomena happening in our natural world, all around us, all the time.
Enjoy 3 minute bird decodes every Wednesday on YouTube.
Thank you for landing here and welcome to the flock!
~Liz
From the Flock
About Liz, Naturalist Educator & Nature Experience Designer
Liz Austin holds a master's degree in Linguistics and Adult Education and is a certified mindfulness practitioner and bird communication researcher. Over a 20-year career designing curriculum for global organizations — including Disney, the Olympics, and University College London — she developed a deep understanding of how adults learn, connect, and find meaning through well-crafted facilitated experiences.
Through her Tails Talk birding platform and Tails Talk Birds YouTube channel, she brings together her training in linguistics, music, mindful engagement, and bird communication to create programs that are thoroughly researched and built from a genuine love of birds and the natural world.
Ready-to-deliver nature experiences you can share instantly
This Season: The Hummingbird
Share an engaging nature experience with your group designed to spark wonder, conversation and shared connection around nature.
Every hour-long event is researched, written and designed by Liz with full script so anyone can deliver a nature program with confidence - no prior knowledge of the nature subject matter needed.
This season's experience centers around the Ruby-throated hummingbird.
Group members are invited into the remarkable story of this creature for an informative, unhurried, and genuinely enjoyable hour that resonates long after your event concludes.
Inside the hummingbird experience
• A fully scripted 55–60 minute facilitator guide with pacing notes throughout
• A beautifully designed participant packet for each group member including field guide, trivia and reflection guide
• Conversation prompts that encourage curiosity, reminiscence, and shared discovery
• Reflection activities and optional extension ideas
• Integrated adaptations for memory care and mixed-ability groups
Every element has been thoughtfully crafted for sharing a meaningful experience together around an extraordinary bird.
Created for
• Assisted & Independent Living Communities
• Memory Care
• Senior Centres
• Nature Centres
• Libraries
• Adult Education & Lifelong Learning Programs
• Community & Wellness Groups
A resource you can return to again and again
Differing from a one-time event, this experience becomes part of your ongoing resources—ready to deliver any time you need it.
Share it this week, next month or as part of a nature or birding series.
It's yours to keep.
Join the Naturalist Table
A weekly listening experience exploring amazing things in our natural world.
Join Liz every Monday for a new 20 minute audio exploring something extraordinary in nature.
From the awe-inspiring journey of the monarch butterfly to the underground communication between trees, each listening experience reveals a hidden wonder happening just outside your window.
Get to know the trees in your backyard and around the world.
What Tree is That?
Visit Liz's new channel on YouTube @whattreeisthat
Uncover the stories they carry.
Discover the wildlife that live there.
Learn how to identify them on your next hike.
Share a custom-made nature experience with your community
Trees, birds, butterflies? No topic is too wild. Fill out the form below and share what your group is interested in.
Liz will design a nature experience for your group, ready-to-deliver.
