Birds, like all animals, depend on a healthy environment to provide food sources. But as humans alter the natural landscape, traditional food and feeding dynamics have changed, creating new challenges for vulnerable bird populations. To help these birds, ABC partners with government agencies, other conservation groups, private landowners, and industry… Read more >>

Birds, like all animals, depend on a healthy environment to provide food sources. But as humans alter the natural landscape, traditional food and feeding dynamics have changed, creating new challenges for vulnerable bird populations. To help these birds, ABC partners with government agencies, other conservation groups, private landowners, and industry… Read more >>

I can’t help but feel happy when I walk in the glades. Maybe it’s the great diversity of native grasses and flowering plants in these special open patches. Glades punctuate forests in Missouri, usually on rocky, dry, south- and west-facing slopes and hilltops. As I hike and take stock of… Read more >>

Birds, like all animals, depend on a healthy environment for food. But as humans alter the natural landscape, traditional food and feeding dynamics have changed, creating new challenges for vulnerable bird populations. To help these birds, ABC partners with government agencies, other conservation groups, private landowners, and industry representatives to… Read more >>

The history of trail camera pictures likely dates back to the early 1900s, when former U.S. Congressman George Shiras rigged a camera and explosive magnesium-powder flash to string and rope trip lines. Today, tiny infrared motion sensors, compact flashes, and digital technology allow modern camera traps to keep an unblinking… Read more >>

In Costa Rica, increasingly rare Great Tinamous and Great Curassows show more resiliency than expected. These large birds are among the first species to disappear when human settlement encroaches in large, forested areas, and many believed that they only lived in old-growth, primary forest. From May to August 2017, a… Read more >>

Our "Top Five Rediscoveries of Lost Birds" in the Americas include a spectacular Colombian hummingbird, the Blue-bearded Helmetcrest. This and other scientific advances have spurred conservation action by American Bird Conservancy and our South American partners, ensuring the survival of some of the avian world's most beautiful species. Here are… Read more >>

As ABC approaches its 25th anniversary, we celebrate a series of successful bird conservation projects that have helped to protect more than 1 million acres of bird habitat for many of our hemisphere’s rarest species. More than a mile above the distant Pacific, an emerald mantle of cloud forest cloaks… Read more >>

The United States’ Roseate Tern population has reached its highest numbers since 1987, when it was listed as a federally Endangered species. According to the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife, the 2018 population estimate for United States Endangered Roseate Terns is 4,552 pairs. Fifty-one pairs were estimated for Canada.… Read more >>

When the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ran a story (“Is your bird seed harmful to the birds and bees?”) on April 26, warning that wild bird seed could be contaminated with neonicotinoid pesticides, commonly known as “neonics,” readers with bird feeders were likely shocked to think they might be harming backyard visitors.… Read more >>