Despite Headwinds, a Year of Results for Bird Conservation
Despite uncertainties with federal funding and ongoing environmental rollbacks in 2025, American Bird Conservancy (ABC) stayed focused on our mission, steadfast in our principles, and achieved heartening progress for birds and their habitats across the Americas — helping endangered birds avoid ext...
Forests at Work for People and Birds
For many birds, forests are nest sites and nurseries, territories, and rest stops. They provide the abundant resources that help birds survive and raise their young successfully.
They do much of the same for people. Forests perform many essential ecosystem services that go unnoticed, like absorb...
Listening in on the Birds of New York City
American Bird Conservancy is using audio recording units in New York Harbor to understand and document returning birdlife returning to the area as it recovers.
Keeping Up with Swallow-tailed Kites
Much about Swallow-tailed Kite migration is a mystery, but tracking technology is shedding light on the timing and routes of their movements, allowing researchers and conservationists to keep up with individual kites when they are on the wing. In 2019, American Bird Conservancy (ABC) and Internation...
Chasing “Paper” Kites
A giant paper company and its mill might seem antithetical to the cause of bird conservation. Yet today, International Paper (IP) plays a growing role in this arena. It belongs to the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), and the wood it buys from landowners and forestry companies must meet sustain...
Signal Boost
ABC guides Motus efforts in the U.S., and since 2023, Smith and his team have installed or directly supported the installation of 122 Motus stations in 20 states or territories and three countries.
Your “Treequently” Asked Questions, Answered
ABC’s program staff are here to answer some of our most “treequently” asked questions. This story is not exhaustive, but it uses the relevant experiences of ABC’s program staff to provide a snapshot of their work in forested habitats from Michigan to Peru.
