Proposed Endangered Species Act Rule Changes Pose Major Risks to Birds
Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announced proposed rules that would severely weaken the Endangered Species Act (ESA), one of the most effective laws ever enacted to prevent extinctions.
The Flute
Archeological texts often list “perforated bone tubes” among artifacts unearthed from early humans’ caves and burial sites. Such artifacts may hold evidence of human minds awakening to music — signs of our ancestors turning bone and air into song and of an ancient ability to feel beauty pier...
Lasting Stewardship for Bird Reserves
ABC and our partners have been in the reserve business for more than a quarter century: Reserves are the first line of defense against bird extinctions, and they provide crucial refuges for both migratory and resident bird species, as well as scores of insects, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and pla...
Filling the Gaps in Bird Conservation
To prevent the extinction of Latin America’s most threatened birds, ABC aims to ensure that each of the species most at risk has at least one well-managed protected area that safeguards a minimal amount of habitat sufficient for survival. Accomplishing this requires asking (and answering) question...
New Book Celebrates Tropical Birds of the Andes
The photo is one of a couple of hundred taken by Deutsch that are on display in the new book Birds of the Tropical Andes, published in July by Princeton University Press. Along with the images is in-depth text and detailed photo captions written by Michael J. Parr, ABC’s President. The coffee-tabl...
Keeping Watch
“Habitat is the foundation of bird conservation — no bird can survive without the right amount of the right kind of habitat, and habitat degradation is a leading driver of the massive species declines we have seen in recent decades," said Parr. “We saw a need for a system that could tell us wh...
Rare Albatross Makes Remarkable Recovery After Swallowing Multiple Fishing Hooks
A Salvin’s Albatross, one of the least studied seabird species in the world, has returned to the wild after it successfully recovered from life-saving surgery that removed four large fishing hooks and the fishing line it ingested off the coast of South America. This latest unintended fisheries inc...
