Chasing “Paper” Kites
A giant paper company and its mill might seem antithetical to the cause of bird conservation. Yet today, International Paper (IP) plays a growing role in this arena. It belongs to the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), and the wood it buys from landowners and forestry companies must meet sustain...
Signal Boost
ABC guides Motus efforts in the U.S., and since 2023, Smith and his team have installed or directly supported the installation of 122 Motus stations in 20 states or territories and three countries.
The Flute
Archeological texts often list “perforated bone tubes” among artifacts unearthed from early humans’ caves and burial sites. Such artifacts may hold evidence of human minds awakening to music — signs of our ancestors turning bone and air into song and of an ancient ability to feel beauty pier...
Filling the Gaps in Bird Conservation
To prevent the extinction of Latin America’s most threatened birds, ABC aims to ensure that each of the species most at risk has at least one well-managed protected area that safeguards a minimal amount of habitat sufficient for survival. Accomplishing this requires asking (and answering) question...
New Book Celebrates Tropical Birds of the Andes
The photo is one of a couple of hundred taken by Deutsch that are on display in the new book Birds of the Tropical Andes, published in July by Princeton University Press. Along with the images is in-depth text and detailed photo captions written by Michael J. Parr, ABC’s President. The coffee-tabl...
Keeping Watch
“Habitat is the foundation of bird conservation — no bird can survive without the right amount of the right kind of habitat, and habitat degradation is a leading driver of the massive species declines we have seen in recent decades," said Parr. “We saw a need for a system that could tell us wh...
Sharing the Wonder of Birds
Birds. Why birds? How do we get so caught up in them? I often wonder how I became so bird-obsessed. Why not planes, or bowling, or professional wrestling?
