American Bird Conservancy

🟡🌱 Steal the Look: Painted Bunting

Snow might be on the ground, but seed packets are on my mind.
My lime-green thumbs might be ready to propagate, but… the rake is in timeout.
🍂🐛 Those leftover leaves are where insects overwinter so I will stick to dreaming of spring.

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🤩 GOSH! What a Hawk!
The American Goshawk (Astur atricapillus) is the largest of North America’s forest hawks.
💪🏼 Goshawks are used as a management indicator species — when they disappear, it’s a warning that the forest is in trouble.

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🔷 This parrot didn’t just beat the odds — they “macaw”-nquered them!
For years, the Blue-throated Macaw was known only through captive specimens.
🟡 Thanks to conservation efforts, the population has slowly increased and stabilized.
🔷 Learn more about this colorful survivor:
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🎶 Start spreading the News — New York Harbor is singing again!

ABC’s Eliot Miller takes us into the waterways of NYC, where scientists are deploying autonomous recording units to listen to birds returning to places once written off as dead zones.

Read the full story:
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For years, the Antioquia Brushfinch was only known to science through three museum specimens first described by researchers in 2007. Then, in 2018, a chance encounter changed everything.
⚫🔶🟤 Current population of ~109 individuals.

Reveal more about this rare bird in our library:
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🔴 Steal the Look: Cherry-throated Tanager

🏡 Working from home? Time to get cozy and stay productive. Wrapped in a heated blanket and perched in an EGGonomic office chair, I've never been more ready to math.

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✨ Happy #NationalBirdDay!
Birds fill our lives with color, song, and wonder — and they play a vital role in keeping ecosystems healthy.
Today is a reminder that protecting birds means protecting the habitats they depend on.

Take a moment to enjoy the birds around you today!

New York Gov. Hochul has signed the Horseshoe Crab Protection Act! ABC advocated for this legislation, which will phase out harvest of horseshoe crabs over 3 years, with a full ban in 2029. The crab's eggs are a vital food source for Red Knots & other shorebirds. riverheadlocal.com/2025/12/20/h...

✨ Steal the Look: Resplendent Quetzal

🔴 Holiday party incoming, and the party doesn't start ‘til I fly in.
🎄 Happy Holidaying from the ABC team!

Learn more in our bird library:
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Help Greater Sage-Grouse!

Yesterday, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released the latest round of sage grouse plans. Urge Congress to restore ESA protections for the Greater Sage-Grouse, maintain critical conservation funding & uphold a strong Endangered Species Act. Act now: act.abcbirds.org/a/take-actio...

🔴❄️ Steal the Look: Northern Female Cardinal

It’s that time of year! The LL Beak catalogue has arrived in the mail and we are feeling warm and toasty.
🔥 Speaking of warm and toasty... Are those S'mores ingredients!?
☕ Don’t mind if I do.
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🎶 If you’ve ever heard “Ohhh sweet Canada, Canada, Canada…” drifting through winter trees, you’ve met the White-throated Sparrow.
This backyard favorite sports bold head stripes, a crisp white throat, & bright yellow lores for a color pop!

Learn more:
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🔴 Keep the Endangered Species Act strong!
The federal government has proposed 4 new rules that would weaken the Endangered Species Act (ESA) — one of the most effective laws we have to prevent extinction.
⏰ The comment period closes soon.

Take Action:
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🎉 We’re so pleased to share that American Bird Conservancy has once again earned the highest honors from the nation’s leading charity evaluators.
💯 For the thirteenth year in a row, Charity Navigator awarded ABC its highest Four-Star rating.

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🎁 Win your holiday gift exchange — put a bird on it!

Order by 11:59pm PT tonight (Dec 3) for delivery by Dec 24.
Pick your gift:
🔴 Bringing Back the Birds book
🟢 ABC Hummingbird Cap
Memberships include discounts, magazines, event invites, and more!
🎄 Gift an ABC Membership:
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Promo graphic for Giving TREEsday. $20 buys 2 trees and $100 hels conserve an acre of bird habitat!

🗣️ Hey you! Buried in Giving Tuesday asks? Come perch with us.
🌳 Birds need trees, & habitat loss is their #1 threat. That’s why ABC turns Giving Tuesday into Giving TREESDAY!
🎁 $20 = 2 trees
🎁 $100+ = Helps conserve an acre

Support ABC to plant trees:
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Fast Facts graphic for our Northern Bobwhite Bird of the Week

🎶 Say “Bob-white!” if you love quail!

🟤 The Northern Bobwhite is a grassland bird that prefers running to flying, vanishing into brush at lightning speed.
🍂 Conservation efforts are helping them bounce back from habitat loss & pesticides.

Learn more:
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Promo for "Treequently asked questions" on our website featuring a northern flicker coming out of a birch tree.

🌲 Why do trees matter for birds? Let’s branch out!

📉 Forests support over 75% of all bird species — yet we lose millions of acres every year.
📈 It’s time to ROOT for trees — healthy forests mean healthy birds. We’ll LEAF it at that!

🌲More “TREEquently” asked questions:
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🪁 Meet our sky-surfing bird of the week: the Mississippi Kite — a gray raptor w/ red eyes & wings built to hover mid-air.
🦗 Also called the “hovering kite” and “locust eater,” they feed on flying insects & are vulnerable to pesticides.

Hear their call:
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‼️📰 Today, the federal government announced major changes that would weaken the Endangered Species Act.
🚨 These changes would put birds like Hawai’i’s ‘I’iwi at risk, removing protections from threatened species and their habitats.

Read ABC’s statement:
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Steal the Look: Lewis’s Woodpecker

Leave my house after 6pm? The audacity.
🌙 With Daylight Savings & dropping temps, I’m taking my self-care cues straight from the Lewis’s Woodpecker.
🔥 Tonight is going to be gloriously forgettable.

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Bird of the Week, the Lewis's Woodpecker with facts in a text box. Population 82,000 and stable trending population.

Introducing our #BirdoftheWeek, the rule-breaking Lewis’s Woodpecker!

🔴🟢⚪⚫ With a red face, pink belly, green back & silver-gray collar, they catch insects mid-air & store acorns for winter.
Found in western U.S. & Canada.

🪰 Learn more in our bird library:
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🍂📖☕ We’re buggin’ out over our newest Bird Conservation issue — and we know you will, too!

🪶 The final issue of the year is one to savor with inspiring stories, stunning design, and phenomenal photographs.

Not an ABC Member? We welcome you to enjoy the digital version:
abcbirds.org/MagPeek

🪶 Birds fill our lives with color and song — but many species are disappearing fast. How can we turn wonder into action?

Join host @jerutter.bsky.social and ABC experts for a free webinar on Nov 19 | 4–5 PM ET to explore how.
📍 Zoom (Register for the recording if you can’t attend!)
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🌲 High up in the boreal forest lives the Canada Jay (Perisoreus canadensis), also known as the “Whiskyjack,” from the Algonquin Wisakedjak — a benevolent trickster spirit in several First Nations stories.

❄️ Learn how this #BirdoftheWeek outsmarts winter in our bird library:
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🪽 Help birds thrive — and receive a beautiful thank you from artist & bestselling author Amy Tan!

Join American Bird Conservancy with a gift of $35+ to receive a signed 5x7 print from her #1 NYT bestseller “The Backyard Bird Chronicles.”
🎁 Limited prints — claim yours today!
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🚨 Massachusetts: Protect coastal wildlife!
Bill H.898 would ban harvesting horseshoe crabs for bait — a vital step to save this ancient species and the shorebirds that depend on their eggs.
Urge legislators to support H.898 by Tuesday, Oct 21st!
Take action:
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🐜 Meet the Velvety Black-Tyrant, Brazil’s endemic insect hunter!
Glossy black with red eyes, they snatch insects midair or from leaves. Females lead nesting while males guard & feed chicks. Populations are stable, but face habitat loss.

Learn more:
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🪶 Steal the look: Northern Bobwhite

🍁 This fit says: I touch grass, I reflect, & I move at Birkenstock speed…, which is just slow enough to notice every migrating warbler this Fall.

Love Bobwhites? RSVP for our FREE webinar:
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🌋 #BirdoftheWeek: the Lava Gull, the world’s rarest gull
With just 600 – 800 birds, all in the Galápagos, these dusky seabirds keep their dark hood year-round & blend into volcanic shores.
🪹 Fierce nest defenders & opportunistic eaters

Learn more:
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