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bins with ABA stickers

Let's see those ABA Bird of the Year stickers!

ABA members Scott and Pat Sainsbury recently shared this photo of their well-worn "kitchen binoculars" with more than a decade of ABA Bird of the Year stickers. These trusty bins have seen a lot of birds and brought a lot of joy.

Our Annual Report for 2024 is now available! Take a look back at all the ways you helped make birding better through the American Birding Association:

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Northern Cardinal, by Stacy Vitallo

Happy Father's Day, from the American Birding Association!

Got any birding plans for this Father's Day?

Military Macaws in Texas’s Big Bend National Park - American Birding Association On 22 Apr 2025, a pair of Military Macaws was photographed in Big Bend National Park, Texas. This could represent the first confirmed record of the species within the ABA Area; however, this is not th...

On Tuesday, 22 Apr 2025, a pair of Military Macaws (Ara militaris) was photographed at Rio Grande Village in Big Bend National Park, Brewster Co, Texas. Read more: www.aba.org/military-mac...

This week, we welcome Nick Block, professor of biology at Stonehill College in Massachusetts, as well as Matt Hale, professor of biology at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth to talk all about weird winged warblers. www.aba.org/09-14-weird-...

Complete with beautiful images and extensive, detailed information, The Shorebirds of North America: A Natural History and Photographic Celebration, by Pete Dunne and Kevin T. Karlson is a great addition to any birder's shelf. Read Katie Boord's full review here: www.aba.org/striking-sho...

Laughing Gull leans in for a sip #birds

Vitus Li, February eBirder of the Month - eBird Please join us in congratulating Vitus Li, of Ellicott City, Maryland—winner of the February 2025 eBirder of the Month Challenge, sponsored by ZEISS. Vitus’s name was drawn randomly from the thousands...

Congratulations to ABA Young Birder Vitus Li for winning the February eBirder of the Month Challenge!

Vitus is currently a participant in ABA's Young Birder Mentoring program. You can read more about his story and the eBirder of the Month Challenge here:
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Naturalist and best-selling author Christian Cooper visits Wisconsin to celebrate birding, inclusion, and community Christian Cooper, the Emmy Award-winning host of National Geographic’s "Extraordinary Birder" and author of the best-selling memoir "Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natura...

Just wrote a new piece for Madison365! ✍️ Birder and best-selling author Christian Cooper recently visited Wisconsin to celebrate birding, community, and connection. 🖤

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"As I write, the sun is rising on a nearly perfect spring morning, replete with caroling robins and ravens already on the wing. The day is marred only by the absence of my good friend Victor Emanuel, whose too brief tenure on this planet ended 11 March 2025." www.aba.org/victor-emanu...

YouTube video by American Birding Association What's This Bird LIVE! March 21, 2025

Join Nate and Greg on YouTube this Friday, March 21 at 1pm ET to chat bird ID and other birdy topics during What's This Bird Live! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkJt...

In a crossover episode with Mike Braesher of Ducks Unlimited and the Ducks Unlimited Podcast, we welcome Mike, Amanda Rodewald of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Bradley Wilkinson of the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies to talk about the State of the Birds report: tinyurl.com/yc3ubkxs

"Maybe the bird’s beauty was a reflection of its rarity. Or maybe, more likely, the bird was beautiful because of the weather. It had started snowing, that Sunday morning in February long ago, and the bird was luminous in the wintry landscape." Read more: tinyurl.com/mtr9c7we Photo by Ted Floyd

Data can be used to inform everything from conservation decisions to where to spend time tomorrow morning. But how can we use that data to encourage new birders or convince policy-makers to care about birds? Data artist Jer Thorp joins host Nate Swick to discuss more: www.aba.org/09-10-the-po...

I have family with ties to Ukraine and am mortified and disgusted by the White House’s disrespectful treatment of President Zelensky today. Grim days indeed.

Loved your siskin pishing story! While pishing at siskins in Colorado, I had one hover 2-3 inches from my face.

YouTube video by American Birding Association What's This Bird LIVE! February 28, 2025

Join Nate and Greg TOMORROW, Friday Feb. 28 at 1pm ET to chat bird ID and more on What's This Bird Live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5sW...

09-09: This Month in Birding - February 2025 - American Birding Association February brings an all-star lineup to This Month in Birding, with long-time friends Jody Allair, Nick Lund, and Jordan Rutter joining us to talk about all manner of birdy topics. The panel discuss the...

February brings an all-star lineup to This Month in Birding, with long-time friends Jody Allair, Nick Lund, and Jordan Rutter joining host Nate Swick to talk about all manner of birdy topics. www.aba.org/09-09-this-m...

On this week's American Birding Podcast: This Month in Birding – January 2025 featuring Rebecca Heisman, Dexter Patterson, and Sarah Swanson, who join host Nate Swick to talk about loons, mosquito killing birds, cold weather birding tips, and much more! www.aba.org/09-05-this-m...

Looking for a great place to start planning a road trip? Check out our ever-expanding compilation of roadways throughout North America that offer prime birding and wildlife viewing: www.aba.org/aba-area-bir...

How to dress like the 2025 Bird of the Year Four outfits curated by the owner of a local secondhand shop draw inspiration from the common loon.

We love to see the ways birds can spark creativity across the board. Check out this highlight of Common Loon inspired looks! www.channel3000.com/madison-maga...

This week on the American Birding Podcast, Christian Cooper joins host Nate Swick to talk books, television, and what Central Park means to him: www.aba.org/09-08-urban-...

ABA Statement Regarding U.S. Agency Staffing and Funding - American Birding Association The American Birding Association (ABA) is deeply concerned by recent, sudden staff reductions in U.S. federal agencies tasked with the stewardship of American’s lands, waters, and wildlife, including ...

The ABA is deeply concerned by recent staff reductions in U.S. federal agencies tasked with the stewardship of American’s lands, waters, and wildlife, including wild birds. These actions have real world implications for the wellbeing of wild birds, particularly those facing extinction
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SO 3418 - Unleashing American Energy | U.S. Department of the Interior SO 3418

Buried in yesterday's Interior Department Secretarial Order on "Unleashing American Energy"* is an attack on birds, indicating the reversal of "Regulations Governing Take of Migratory Birds; Revocation of
Provisions," 86 Fed. Reg. 54642.
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Saw a pink N Cardinal once…crazy- looking leucistic male!

Birding editor Ted Floyd's latest installment of How to Know the Birds explores a day of slow birding with a Ruddy turnstone: www.aba.org/how-to-know-...

Even in the dead of winter…birds! #addBirder

An intimate moment with a Florida Scrub Jay on the Scrub Ridge Trail, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge

A Common Loon floats peacefully in a calm lake with one chick riding on its back and the other floating behind it. The text reads "Common Loon Secrets. What Birders Should Know about These Fascinating Birds

"Common Loons look like they have nothing to hide as they float around, seemingly without a care in the world. Or, at least, so I thought. I’ve come to realize there is much, much more to Common Loons than meets the birder’s eye..." www.aba.org/common-loon-...