To address the unprecedented decline of migratory birds across the Americas, conservation practitioners must resolve where to focus their efforts to supply the best advantages. Colombia boasts the best bird diversity on Earth, and habitats across the country are home to lots of of migratory species. To provide conservationists with information to make these decisions, … Read more
The United States Geological Survey issued the Integrated Science Strategy for Assessing and Monitoring Water Availability and Migratory Birds for Terminal Lakes Across the Great Basin, United States (Science Strategy). This saline lake ecosystem Science Strategy follows the passage of landmark bipartisan laws directing the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to assess and monitor saline … Read more
On February 1, 2024, the Federal Court of Canada ruled that Canada’s federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Steven Guilbeault, had interpreted too narrowly the federal jurisdiction over protections for at-risk migratory birds under the Species at Risk Act (SARA). Chief Justice Paul Crampton recognized the elemental leadership role of Canada’s federal government … Read more
Conservation without financial innovation and good projects is stagnation. The speed of climate change and its impact on biodiversity – as evidenced by the billions of birds we’ve lost within the Western Hemisphere because the Seventies – is just not matched by the pace of responses from governments, multilateral banks, private institutions, or citizen initiatives. … Read more
A various coalition of over 210 organizations – spanning 43 states and led by the National Audubon Society and American Bird Conservancy – is urging Congress to act soon to pass the bipartisan Migratory Birds of the Americas Conservation Enhancements Act of 2023 (H. R. 4389). A joint letter, addressed to laws’s sponsors Representatives … Read more
Cape May Warblers (Setophaga tigrina) are a boreal bird species within the wood-warbler family which have greater than 80% of their breeding range in Canada including in places just like the Moose Cree First Nation’s proposed North French River Watershed Indigenous Protected Area. In Southwestern Pennsylvania, where Bird Lab runs three bird banding stations in … Read more