
Mission & Strategy
Our mission is to conserve wild birds and their habitats throughout the Americas.
We achieve our mission using a simple yet effective approach to conservation. Following this proven strategy, we prevent extinctions, reverse declines, reduce threats, and build the bird conservation movement.
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Once trash makes its way from land to sea, it can travel all the way around the world before washing up on land again. The same characteristics that make it easy for plastics to travel to the ocean also make it easy for coastal and marine species to ingest them — plastics are buoyant and light.

Announcing the Winners of the Kirtland’s Warbler 2026 Young Artists Contest
Eight hundred thirty-seven kindergarten–eighth grade students submitted their artwork to the 24th annual Kirtland’s Warbler Young Artists’ Contest. Their art will appear in a calendar.

From Open Ocean to Sandy Shores, Oceans are Bird Habitat
Seabirds are marine animals, every bit as ocean-dwelling as sea turtles. They spend far more of their lives at sea than on land, coming inland only for the purpose of breeding and raising young.

Conserving Marbled Murrelets
American Bird Conservancy goes where the Marbled Murrelets go, partnering with state and federal agencies, conservation organizations, and researchers to conserve the species across its life cycle, on land and at sea, from forest stands to the hallways of Congress.
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