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Invasive Ants in Hawai'i: Small Species, Big Problems
One of the biggest problems facing Hawai'i's endemic birds is invasive species: plants and animals from other areas of the globe whose populations dramatically increase in their new island home. Miconia (a large tree), strawberry guava, and many other plants… Read More »
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Minnesota Vikings' Stadium is Bad for Birds, but It's Not Too Late for a Solution
Each year in the United States, window collisions kill up to 1 billion birds. While this is a massive source of human-caused bird mortality, trailing only free-roaming cats and habitat loss, there is good news: Window collisions are preventable! The… Read More »
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Scientists Hope that Real-time Tracking Project Will Help Imperiled Seabird
Satellite tracking of the imperiled Pink-footed Shearwater may help the species rebound from population declines. Photo by Peter Hodum. (Washington, D.C., April 30, 2013) An international team of scientists from Chile, the United States, and Canada are mapping and timing… Read More »
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After Dorian: How Are Birds in the Bahamas Doing?
In the first days of September, Hurricane Dorian roared over the northwestern Bahamas, ripping across and swamping Abaco and Grand Bahama. This colossal storm left more than 50 dead, 1,300 missing, and thousands without food and shelter. The storm also… Read More »
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New Study Identifies Sources of Mortality for Iconic Hawaiian Goose
Contact: Robert Johns, 202-888-7472, Email click here (Honolulu, Hawai‘i, July 23, 2015) Leading mortality causes for one of Hawaiʻi’s most iconic birds, the federally endangered Hawaiian Goose or Nene, have been identified by researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).… Read More »
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Our Partners
Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) works to secure a future for all species, great and small, hovering on the brink of extinction. They do so through science, law and creative media, with a focus on protecting the lands, waters and climate that species need to survive. ABC works… Read More »
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EPA to Exterminate Some d-CON Rat Poisons
Red-tailed Hawk by Owen Deutsch (Washington, D.C., January 30, 2013) The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today figuratively flipped the advertising slogan “Get Out” used by d-CON rat-poison manufacturer Reckitt Benckiser right back at them by announcing the Federal Government’s… Read More »
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Wildlife Conservation Groups Join Fight to Ban d-CON Rat Poisons
Raptors such as the Red-tailed Hawk continue to be killed by the use of certain rat poisons that EPA is trying to ban. Photo by Michael Stubblefield. Washington D.C. – Today, conservation groups took legal action to support the U.S.… Read More »
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American Bird Conservancy Founder to Step Down
(Washington, D.C., Jan. 24, 2017) Twenty-three years after founding American Bird Conservancy, George Fenwick is stepping down as the group’s president. He leaves behind an organization with an international reputation for conserving habitat and combating the most serious threats to… Read More »
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New Species of Bird Discovered, Named After Conservationist Family
For Immediate Release Contact: , 202-234-7181 ext.210 Fenwick's Antpitta. Photo: ©Fundacion ProAves (Washington, D.C. May 20, 2010) A new species of bird for science has been discovered and named after a leading conservation family. The new species of antpitta,… Read More »
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Radar Tracking Project to Help Protection of Endangered Caribbean Petrel
Black-capped Petrel by Alfred Yan (Washington, D.C., April 29, 2013) A month-long, high-tech project to survey one of the Caribbean’s most endangered birds, the Black-capped Petrel, has succeeded in identifying six previously unknown areas of petrel activity in the Dominican… Read More »
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Five Years After Deepwater Horizon Spill, Growing Gulf-Wide Effort Protects Beach Nesting Birds
(Washington, D.C., April 22, 2015) The April 20, 2010, Deepwater Horizon spill was a horrific event that impacted the lives of many families as well as the gulf environment. But there are bright spots that periodically emerge, such as a… Read More »
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Endangered Birds
[View 6-page 2019 PDF ] [View 15-page 2019 PDF] At the pinnacle of ABC's Bird Conservation Framework, we work to prevent extinction of the Western Hemisphere's most endangered birds, creating and sustaining protected areas to provide essential habitat. Priority bird… Read More »
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Laughing Gull
The Laughing Gull is perfectly named; its continuous, raucous "ha-ha-ha" calls are a part of the summer soundtrack along Gulf and Atlantic Coast beaches. This medium-sized, black-hooded gull favors the ocean shore and is a common sight there during the… Read More »
