In a significant move to preserve Hawaiʻi Island's fragile ecosystems and honor Native Hawaiian cultural values, the Hawaiʻi County Council passed Bill 51, the legislation prohibiting the feeding of feral and stray animals such as cats, pigs, goats, and chickens on all County-owned or managed properties. Bill 51 focuses on public spaces, including County parks, … Read More>>

Global Bird Rescue, a week that shines the spotlight on the catastrophic toll of window collisions, kicks off on September 22. Through September 28, FLAP Canada invites everyone to join American Bird Conservancy (ABC) and countless other bird conservation groups and members of the public around the world to rescue and document wild birds that … Read More>>

Johnston Atoll is a tiny speck in the Pacific Ocean — approximately 1,400 kilometers southwest of Hawaiʻi. For most people, it's just a name lost in the blue expanse of the map. But for over a million seabirds, among the most endangered groups of birds in the world, Johnston Atoll is something else entirely: home. … Read More>>

While the U.S. federal government fuels and funds bird conservation work, American Bird Conservancy's advocacy goes beyond the halls of Congress. We take on strategic issues in state legislatures, where we find opportunities to advance bird and habitat conservation in meaningful, powerful ways. This is especially important at a time when federal policies move slowly, … Read More>>

Bursting with dazzling photographs and contributions from celebrated conservationists, Birds of the Tropical Andes, out July 8, 2025 by Princeton University Press, showcases the wonder and incredible diversity of Andean birds and the unique habitats they depend on. In their latest collaboration, Michael J. Parr, President of American Bird Conservancy (ABC), and renowned bird photographer … Read More>>

The U.S. federal government plays a huge role in bird conservation. Federal agencies are among American Bird Conservancy's (ABC) most important partners, managing large swaths of public lands and waters, providing funding, and administering programs that restore habitats, reduce hazards to birds, recover threatened and endangered species, and much more.  Congress is currently making decisions … Read More>>

In a race to protect rare Hawaiian honeycreepers from extinction, American Bird Conservancy (ABC) and members of the multi-agency Birds, Not Mosquitoes (BNM) partnership have started using drones to combat deadly avian malaria, spread by non-native mosquitoes. The drones are expected to expedite an innovative solution to this urgent threat: They deliver non-biting, lab-reared male … Read More>>

A local ordinance passed in Lake County, Illinois, is taking aim at one of the most worrying threats to declining birds: collisions with glass windows. More than a billion birds die in such collisions annually, contributing to the loss of 3 billion birds from North American populations since 1970. The ordinance is a national first … Read More>>

A groundbreaking study published today in Science reveals that North American bird populations are declining most severely in areas where they should be thriving. Researchers from American Bird Conservancy and Cornell Lab of Ornithology analyzed 36 million bird observations shared by birders to the Cornell Lab's eBird program alongside multiple environmental variables derived from high-resolution … Read More>>

On April 11, a legal opinion issued by the Department of the Interior concluded that the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) does not apply to the incidental, yet predictable and preventable killing of migratory birds. Under the new opinion, energy and utility companies will no longer be held liable for bird mortalities from industry hazards … Read More>>