Rarely glimpsed Mussau Triller documented for first time in 44 years The Mussau Triller, a species that had been lost to science since 1979 was rediscovered in Papua New Guinea in 2024. Photo by Joshua Bergmark/Ornis Birding Expeditions. In June 2024, Joshua Bergmark led a group of birders through the… Read more >>

National Park Service scientists looked at ways to reduce bird collisions with glass in national parks. They show how small actions can have big outcomes. Author Adam Reimer points to one of the nearly invisible dots that make birds avoid this window at Zion National Park in Utah. The dots… Read more >>

A Golden Eagle flies near wind turbines. Photo by Taylor Burge/Shutterstock. Five years ago, an astonishing study co-authored by ABC confirmed a net loss of nearly 3 billion birds over a mere 50 years in the U.S. and Canada. The population declines documented in the report are widely distributed across… Read more >>

A Crested Eagle chick in a nest. Photo by FotoRequest/Shutterstock. Versión en Español A new nature reserve in Colombia protects 656 acres of tropical rainforest where, in 2021, the first Crested Eagle nest ever recorded in the country was located. The eagle pair returned to the area to build a… Read more >>

The Pyrrhuloxia, sometimes called the Southwest Cardinal, is a close relative of the Northern Cardinal. Photo by Dennis W. Donohue/Shutterstock. On my first day in Tucson, I saw a Hooded Oriole. It was perched on a branch inside one of Tucson's many community gardens. I had never seen such a… Read more >>

Sooty Terns on Alto Velo Island, Dominican Republic. Photo by Michael J. Parr. Alto Velo Island, Dominican Republic is a small yet vital piece of the Caribbean’s ecological puzzle. Recognized as an Important Bird Area and a Key Biodiversity Area, the 1.02 square-kilometer (0.39 square miles) island is home to… Read more >>

Colombia’s stunning and recently rediscovered Santa Marta Sabrewing. Photo by Carole Turek, Hummingbird Spot. When John Mittermeier was 15 years old, he received the book Threatened Birds of the World, a large volume published in 2000 covering more than 1,200 species at risk of extinction. “I saw a distribution map… Read more >>

Wedge-rumped Storm-Petrels are tiny, enigmatic seabirds, only about the size of a sparrow. Nevertheless, they take on two of the most titanic (and opposing!) forces on the planet: the vast open ocean, where they spend most of their lives, and the driest desert in the world, where they breed. Wedge-rumped… Read more >>

For the past four years, a pair of Red-shouldered Hawks have nested above the front door of American Bird Conservancy’s Senior Conservation Scientist David Wiedenfeld. In this guest blog, David recounts some of the things he’s learned while observing the growing families in the space they both call home.  Two… Read more >>

A green forest surrounds the Serra Bonita Research Center in this bird’s-eye view. Photo by Bruno Miranda. Lay of the Land: The Serra Bonita Reserve conserves one of the largest remaining privately managed stretches of tropical Atlantic Forest in eastern Brazil. True to its name — meaning "beautiful mountain" in… Read more >>