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Support the ABA, Get a Limited Edition T-Shirt!

Join us in our critical summer Nesting Season appeal with a gift of $100 or more, and we’ll be honored to send you a custom designed ABA 50th logo t-shirt.

Stay comfortable in the heat, share your love of birds, birding, and the ABA, and know that you’ve done your part to help us [read more…]

Watch Bill Thompson III receive the ABA’s Roger Tory Peterson Award for Promoting the Cause of Birding

ABA President Jeffrey Gordon (l) and Vice-Chair Julie Davis (r) present Bill Thompson III (c) with the ABA Roger Tory Peterson Award

Earlier this year, Bill Thompson III was presented with the ABA’s Roger Tory Peterson Award for Promoting the Cause of Birding in recognition of his lifetime of service and contributions. The [read more…]

Call for Conservation Milestones!

If you didn’t see the Conservation Milestones in the 2018 Birder’s Guide to Conservation & Community, take a moment to read them. You’ll be inspired.

And now it’s time to do it again! If you have a conservation project, or if know someone has gone out of their way to help bird conservation, please tell [read more…]

Open Mic: A Better and Simpler Way to Record Bird Sounds with Smartphones

At the Mic: Kathi Borgmann

Ted Floyd, in his recent article in the Birder’s Guide to Gear, said it best—recording birds with your smartphone is awesome! The ability to record bird sounds with your smartphone opens doors that were at one time only dared by skilled recordists. And not only that, and as Ted points [read more…]

Happening NOW: Palm Warbler Fest in Colorado

By Dean Shoup

Something is going on with Palm Warblers in Colorado this fall of 2018. The species is a regular visitor to Colorado in the fall, with scattered reports every year. But 2018 has been a crazy banner year for the species. The nearest year in recent times with a similar irruption was 2012, [read more…]

Announcing the 2018 ABA Awards Recipients

In 2018, the ABA Board of Directors selected four individuals to receive ABA Awards. You can read more about each of the recipients in the October 2018 issue of Birding magazine, but we would like to share them here as well, as these exceptional members of the birding community deserve the admiration and thanks of [read more…]

Celebrate ABA’s 50th in Colombia!

2019 is the ABA’s 50th Anniversary, and to celebrate we’re going to the very heart of bird biodiversity. Magnificent Colombia, hosting more bird species than any other country in the world, and an amazing array of endemic species, is today’s hottest birding destination. Join Jeff Gordon, Liz Gordon, Adam Riley, Forrest Rowland, George Armistead, and [read more…]

Announcement of the ABA Annual Meeting

In accordance with the bylaws of the American Birding Association, the Board of Directors has set the date for the next Annual Meeting of the Members of the Association for Saturday, September 22, 2018. Time and place are 4:00 PM, Saturday, September 22, 2018, at the American Birding Expo, to be held at the Greater [read more…]

Open Mic: Diving Back into Birding at Sarapiqui

At the Mic: Jen Hajj, Specialty Group Travel Consultant at Holbrook Travel

Last November, I took my first birding trip to Costa Rica. I had been there before, long ago, with a college group. The academic trip was an introduction to the different regions and wildlife of the area, but it wasn’t a birding trip. [read more…]

ICYMI: Open Mic: A Veterinarian’s Perspective on the Feral Cat Issue

Issues concerning feral cat colonies and their impacts on local bird populations have been a hot topic of late. Birder, Veterinarian, and ABA member Brian Monk offers his thoughts. [read more…]