Contact: Cynthia Palmer, American Bird Conservancy, 202-888-7475 (Washington, D.C., July 25, 2017) We applaud the U.S. Senators who today introduced a bill to ban chlorpyrifos, a widely used pesticide that has been killing birds and poisoning the environment for the past half-century: Tom Udall (D-NM), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Kamala Harris (D-CA), and Edward … Read More>>

Contact: Jennifer Howard, Director of Public Relations, American Bird Conservancy, 202-888-7472 (Washington, D.C., July 25, 2017) An international team of researchers has solved one of South America's great bird mysteries. Working deep in the mountainous forests of western Venezuela, they have rediscovered the Táchira Antpitta, a plump brown bird species not seen since it was … Read More>>

Contact: Jennifer Howard, Director of Public Relations, 202-888-7472 (Washington, D.C., July 21, 2017) American Bird Conservancy (ABC) is very concerned that portions of a border wall might be built through the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge in Texas. This week, news outlets reported that federal officials and private contractors have been surveying portions of the … Read More>>

Contact: Jennifer Howard, Director of Public Relations, 202-888-7472 (Washington, D.C., July 13, 2017) In good news for migratory birds, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) have introduced a bipartisan bill, S. 1537, to reauthorize the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act (NMBCA), one of the nation's most important bird conservation laws. Now called … Read More>>

Contact: Michael Hutchins, Director of ABC's Bird-Smart Wind Energy Program, 202-888-7485, or Kimberly Kaufman, Executive Director, Black Swamp Bird Observatory, 419-898-4070, ext. 201 (Washington, D.C., June 29, 2017) American Bird Conservancy (ABC) and Black Swamp Bird Observatory (BSBO) have won their campaign to stop a planned wind turbine in a major bird migration corridor close … Read More>>