American Bird Conservancy
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| Founded | 1994 |
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| Type | 501(c)(3) Non-profit Organization |
| Focus | Conserving habitats and eliminating threats to wild birds |
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Area served
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Western Hemisphere |
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Key people
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George H. Fenwick, President |
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Revenue
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$8.9 million in 2012 |
| Mission | Protection of wild birds and habitat throughout the Americas |
| Website | ABCbirds.org |
The American Bird Conservancy (ABC) is a non-profit membership organization with the mission of conserving native birds and their habitats throughout the Americas. Its focus is on threats to birds in the Western Hemisphere—threats which include overuse of pesticides, urban sprawl, habitat destruction, and invasive species.
ABC works in cooperation with other groups and agencies, including: Fundación ProAves, The Bird Conservation Alliance, Partners in Flight, the North American Bird Conservation Initiative, and others. Their partner projects have included publication of bird guides, education on the location and construction of wind turbines, educating farmers to promote bird-friendly agriculture, and raptor conservation. Their Conservation Counterparts Program helps other organizations fundraise for Latin America and Caribbean conservation projects.
In Latin America American Bird Conservancy works with partner groups such as Fundación ProAves to purchase land that protects endangered bird habitat. They are also working with partner organizations to reduce the conversion of coffee farms that offer habitat to the cerulean warbler, by helping growers market premium beans as cerulean warbler-friendly. In Colombia they have helped to protect wintering bird habitat by partnering with Fundación ProAves to help create the first preserve dedicated to a single U.S. migrant, the Cerulean Warbler Bird Reserve. Also in Colombia, they helped fund an expedition in 2010 that discovered two nesting colonies of the endangered Baudó oropendola, one of the rarest birds in the world with less than a dozen known birds before the discovery.
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