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...
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...
Tropical Forests: Hot, Humid Biodiversity Powerhouses
Located along the equator, tropical forests are the most biodiverse habitats in the world. The relative stability of these lush habitats, where temperatures rarely fluctuate and rainfall remains steady or cyclical, creates the perfect conditions for life to flourish. And does it ever! Despite coveri...
Temperate Forests: Conserving Vital Bird Habitat in Any Season
Life in temperate forests, located midway between the equator and the North or South Pole, changes with the seasons, with plants and animals having evolved to endure cold and snowy winters, sticky and hot summers, and everything in between. This is precious habitat for birds. Temperate forests susta...
Boreal Beginnings: North America’s Bird Nursery
While the boreal forest is the endpoint for migration for hundreds of the Western Hemisphere’s migratory bird species, it is also the place where millions of birds’ lives begin each year. Nearly every Blackpoll Warbler’s journey starts when it hatches in the boreal forest, the largest intact f...
