🌷As spring blooms in North America, lots of us are planning our 2024 gardens! We hear a lot about the significant downsides of pesticides, but what can we do to phase them out in our gardens?

🐦 Take flight from toxic pesticides this spring with ABC! bit.ly/4ciYOBo

American Bird Conservancy is grateful to Sea Bags for supporting our work! Learn more at bit.ly/3xsFdhW! ⛵ 👜

🐦ABC's Hardy Kern talks pesticides and how we are playing the long game to protect birds on our Bird Calls Blog! 🌱 Learn about our ongoing efforts to push for stronger regulations nationwide. 🦅 bit.ly/3vRQO9Y.

#Pesticides #Pesticides AndBirds #NoToNeonics #BirdCalls

You know that building collisions are one of the major contemporary threats to birds, but did you know ABC works to prevent bird collisions by educating industry professionals on how to build better buildings for birds? 📐👷🦉

Visit bit.ly/4atmvp6 to learn more!

Wanna branch out? 🌳 Watch our latest webinar, “Trees at Work: How Working Forests Help Birds in the U.S. Southeast Region.”

Find out how forests can meet human demand, while also supporting conservation efforts for birds. 🐦

▶️ bit.ly/4cVK8YV.

You're enjoying a slow spring afternoon outdoors & notice a distinctive, accelerating birdsong… like a ping-pong ball bouncing on a table…🏓

Can you identify this bird sharing a habitat with you?

It’s our Bird of the Week: The Field Sparrow!
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“The rediscovery led to finding new locations where the hummingbird can be seen, as well as opening the door for new research on the Santa Marta Sabrewing... providing ‘findings [that] are a beacon of hope in an unknown territory...'”

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🌤️🌷Spring has arrived in North America, and with it, billions of migratory birds! Unfortunately, these birds face a gauntlet of human-caused dangers on their journeys North. But the good news is, you can help! Join our webinar on April 25th to learn how!
bit.ly/3TOsfTq

H.R. 4389, reauthorizing the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act, has passed! One of the US's most important bird laws, the NMBCA has helped catalyze bird conservation.

The next step is senate approval & you can help! Visit bit.ly/4d5zUph.

ABC y numerosos colaboradores han publicado nuevos hallazgos sobre una de las especies de aves menos conocidas del mundo. Lea la noticia en español reportada por Esteban Botero-Delgadillo de SELVA y John C. Mittermeier de ABC en eBird Colombia. bit.ly/3xwBPTr

What do rubber plantations in Costa Rica, the tires on your car, and bird conservation have in common?

Read about our latest collaboration for birds with Michelin at bit.ly/3xvXVoQ!

#SustainableRubber #HeveaCostaRica #GPSNR #BirdsPlus #BirdScapes #BirdFriendlyFarms

Artificial light can provide safety & comfort for people at night, but it can also be disruptive & dangerous for migrating wildlife.

Learn how making the night skies safer for birds can start at home, with actions as easy as flipping a switch, at bit.ly/4asLFUK.

In our series on forest biomes of the Western Hemisphere, we’ve traced the journey of one small songbird, the Blackpoll Warbler, over thousands of miles. 🗺️

Now, we reach its final annual destination: 'North America’s bird nursery,' the boreal forest.🌲 bit.ly/49fCTbx

The story of the Santa Marta Sabrewing is only beginning to be told— at least to those outside of its territory in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northern Colombia.

Take a peek as this elusive bird slowly comes into focus… bit.ly/3PSfd6a
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🎙️ABC’s Glass Collisions Program Director Christine Sheppard joined the Bird Hugger podcast last week to discuss the phenomenon that was Flaco the Owl.

Listen in on your favorite podcast platform or at: bit.ly/4cMS8eM
#RIPFlaco #FlacoTheOwl #BirdCollisions #BirdHugger

Meet the Fox Sparrow! 🦊🐦 These chunky sparrows are split into a whopping 18 subspecies! Unfortunately, as nocturnal migrants, they are common victims of collisions. YOU can make the skies safer for them, and now is the perfect time to start!
bit.ly/3PLM9Nl #DarkSkyWeek

How many subspecies of Fox Sparrow (passerella iliaca) are there?

Here's your second chance to check out our team-up with American Bird Conservancy, as we work to protect bugs along with the birds that rely on them for food!

Our nine paid, part-time Fellows will illuminate varied ways of caring for birds and people, including ideas already present within communities but that may be excluded from current practice in mainstream biodiversity conversations. Apply TODAY!
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Is it 🦗 bugging you that you missed our webinar, “Pests or Provisions? How Spraying Grasshoppers and Crickets Impacts Western Birds”?

Make a beeline 🐝 for the recording, now available to watch on demand!
💻 Visit bit.ly/3TtLykN & watch now!

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