One Bird’s Biography
One early May, I watched a pair of Baltimore Orioles courting in my backyard. Before long, the female was weaving an intricate nest in the sugar maple outside my bedroom window.
Agatha Szczepaniak
Media Relations Specialist
Agatha is a PR maven with over 20 years of experience in media relations, event production, strategic partnerships and creative marketing. As a lifelong birder and avid backpacker, she enjoys observing and catching wild critters any chance she could get.
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After a Century With Only One Sighting, Indonesia's Blue-fronted Lorikeet Found in Unexplored Forest
Hidden in the remote highlands of Mount Kapalatmada in Buru, Indonesia, the Blue-fronted Lorikeet has reemerged after going missing for more than a decade. Only documented once in the past hundred years, the elusive parrot species was spotted in April during a 14-day trek, carefully tucked away in t...
One Million Trees to Revive Forests and Support Communities in Northern Peru
The needs of birds and those of the people around them may seem to be at odds. In northern Peru’s Amazonas and San Martin regions in the Colán-Alto Mayo BirdScape, Asociación Ecosistemas Andinos and American Bird Conservancy are finding ways to support residents while also breathing new life int...
ABC Looks to the Senate for a Better Farm Bill for Birds
American Bird Conservancy urges the Senate to pass a Farm Bill that funds critically important conservation programs and advances policies and practices that address the conservation needs of birds and the habitats and ecosystems they rely on.
