Decades of research, planning, and action by ABC and partners led to a big win for this little-known Hawaiian songbird. Millerbird. Photo by Robby Kohley. September 2011 was a momentous time in the history of the Millerbird, a songbird at risk of extinction and at that time found only in… Read more >>

A male Short-crested Coquette, a Critically Endangered species now protected by six reserves totaling nearly 22,000 acres in the Mexican state of Guerrero. Photo by Anthony Lujan. One of the rarest and most spectacular hummingbirds in Mexico, found only in a small area of mountainous woodlands, is the focus of… Read more >>

Brown-headed Nuthatch perches outside a nest cavity, which may be tended to not only by the parents but also by other male offspring who arrive as “helpers.” Photo by P.T. Hamilton/Shutterstock. As we observed with female birds, avian parenting styles can vary greatly. Some female birds, like hummingbirds, are solo… Read more >>

Domestic cats are the top source of direct human-caused bird mortality in the United States. Photo by forestpath/Shutterstock. Cats. It’s a four-letter word in bird conservation.  Domestic cats (Felis catus) can make wonderful pets, but their presence roaming the environment is a nightmare for birds and birders alike. Cute and… Read more >>

The Wedge-tailed Shearwater spends most of its life at sea, coming to land only to breed. Photo by Sophie Webb. Open Ocean | Islands | Shores Earth is known as the “blue planet” for a good reason: the ocean covers nearly three-quarters of its surface, making it the largest of… Read more >>

The Atlantic Forest. Photo by Michael J. Parr. Birds face many challenges — collisions with windows, pesticides, and introduced species, to name only a few — but habitat loss stands out as the biggest threat to birds by far. While birds are found in every major habitat type around the… Read more >>

Coffee shrubs grow in the shade of native trees in Huembo, one of the conservation areas within the Colán-Alto Mayo BirdScape in the Peruvian Andes. Photo by Annie Hawkinson. For migratory birds like the Canada Warbler and Olive-sided Flycatcher, the problem of habitat loss crosses borders and spans continents. It… Read more >>

A female Green-breasted Mango, one of the larger hummingbird species, sits on a perfectly camouflaged nest. Photo by Ondrej Prosicky/Shutterstock. There are seemingly endless ways to raise youngsters in the bird world. Some female birds do it all: building the nest, incubating the eggs, and raising the young to fledging.… Read more >>

World Migratory Bird Day highlights the link between birds and insects https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1JIb5ETOm4 The naturalist E.O. Wilson is said to have affectionately called insects “the little things that run the world” because they, despite their tiny sizes, play an outsized role in making many of Earth’s natural processes happen. Insects are… Read more >>

A male Greater Sage-Grouse at a lek, a communal space where males gather to display during the breeding season, as female grouse look on. Photo by Agnieszka Bacal. The future of the Greater Sage-Grouse, an iconic species of the American West, is in doubt. For decades its numbers have dwindled… Read more >>