Birding While Hearing-Impaired Is No Longer Impossible

Birding is for everybody — these apps are here to help

White-eyed vireo singing. Photo by: Annalise Kaylor

I’ll never forget the first time I heard it raining outside of my house. I was eighteen years old and had just received my first pair of hearing aids. Tears ran down my face in coordination with the raindrops cascading down my windows. Much like people who put on glasses for the…