Izabela Dłużyk
When Izabela Dłużyk was only 12 years old, she started recording bird noises on her cassette recorder. She was born without sight, and trained her hearing to focus on sounds many of us might ignore, eventually embarking on a career as a nature sound recordist that would culminate in 2023 with a BBC documentary that detailed her process and philosophy. That same year, she was the only Polish woman to appear on the BBC's 100 Women list, acknowledged for her in-depth observations of birds like whooper swans, cranes and cormorants.
