Be respectful of beach birds by keeping a safe distance and avoiding single-use plastic Gulf Coast are home to these denizens of sand and surf: Wilson’s Plovers, Snowy Plovers, Least Terns, and Black Skimmers. Artwork by Chris Vest Millions of people and birds share U.S. beaches throughout the year, especially… Read more >>

Forest management helps keep Jack Pine forests young, making it possible for the once-Endangered Kirtland’s Warbler to breed. Photo by Ron Austing. If you read part one of our Treequently Asked Questions series, you learned about one side of American Bird Conservancy’s (ABC) work with trees: tree planting. While ABC… Read more >>

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 >>

In 1996, when Weber de Girão e Silva was 21 years old and a biology student at a Brazilian university, he and his ornithology professor, Artur Galileu de Miranda Coelho, discovered the Araripe Manakin, a beautiful songbird found only along a 30-mile stretch of the Araripe plateau of eastern Brazil.… 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 >>

A flock of Black Skimmers. Photo by Tania Thomson/Shutterstock.  Birds have always been sources of wonder, inspiration, and awe. They dazzle in their diversity and represent freedom with their ability to fly far beyond where our eyes can see and our ears can hear. They are also sentinels, alerting us… Read more >>