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Join me and Nate Swick today, July 17, at 1:00pm ET to discuss ID challenges and get your bird ID questions answered on What’s This Bird? Live! www.youtube.com/live/tBbzvG6...
What's This Bird LIVE! July 17, 2026
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New ABA young birder essay up on Owen Deutsch's blog! Kaia Hansen reflects on spark birds, and how a single encounter can change a whole life. Read here: owendeutsch.com/spark-birdin...
Spark Birding - An ABA Young Birder Essay - Owen Deutsch Photography
by ABA Young Birder, Kaia Hansen Spark bird – the bird that ‘sparked’ a birder’s love for Earth’s feathered wonders on wings. The name itself stirs memory and a magical sensation for any birder, young...
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Tune in to watch Greg and Nate at 1pm eastern! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY4b...
What's This Bird LIVE! June 26, 2026
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The Oregon and Washington: Winter 2025–2026 Regional Report is out! Highlights include Common Crane, Black-headed Gull, and Red-footed Booby. Read the full report here:
Oregon and Washington: Winter 2025–2026 - American Birding Association
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The Western Great Lakes: Fall 2025 Regional Report is out! Highlights include Black Phoebe, Common Eider, and Mexican Violetear! Read the full report here: www.aba.org/western-grea...
Western Great Lakes: Fall 2025 - American Birding Association
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Join me and Nate today, June 5, at 1:00pm ET to discuss ID challenges and get your bird ID questions answered on What’s This Bird? LIVE!
American Birding Association@aba.org · 2mo agoDon't forget to join Greg and Nate today at 1pm ET for What's This Bird LIVE! Tune in here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8tJ...
I've had a Wilson's Warbler in my yard for the past 3 days ... finally got a decent picture of it.
Join us LIVE at 11am Central today! Lots of bird banter, ID discussion, and some seriously hot takes. @aba.org member drive. @marthaharbison.bsky.social @thebirdist.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/xvCQg6h...
ABA Spring Member Drive
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The joy of birding isn't just fun: it sustains and fortifies us during challenging times. ABA board member Tahmina Watson explores that idea beautifully in an article for the legal news and commentary website Above the Law. Read here: abovethelaw.com/2026/05/why-...
Why Joy Might Be The Most Important Tool Lawyers Have Right Now - Above the Law
Practicing immigration law right now is hard. In fact, it is harder than ever. That's why we must find joy.
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New How to Know the Birds column, by Ted Floyd! Across much of its vast range, the 2026 ABA Bird of the Year isn't particularly rare. In places, it can be fantastically abundant. Yet the species is generally unknown. Why is that? Read here: www.aba.org/how-to-know-...
How to Know the Birds: No. 94, The Commonest Bird You Never Knew - American Birding Association
Across much of its vast range, the 2026 ABA Bird of the Year isn't particularly rare. In places, it can be fantastically abundant. Yet the species is generally unknown. Why is that?
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Did you see Michelle Tapasco in the recent 60 Minutes episode? The April 2023 issue of Birding featured an interview with Tapasco about her story of becoming a birding tourism pioneer. The ABA has made this article publicly viewable as HTML so everyone can enjoy: www.aba.org/the-women-of...
The Women of Colombia’s Montezuma Rainforest Reserve and Ecolodge - American Birding Association
In the Colombian Andes, Michelle Tapasco built a family-run ecolodge, empowering women, supporting education, and protecting biodiversity through birding tourism despite conflict.
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Join me and Nate for an hour of tricky ID work and bird banter! LIVE at 1PM Eastern. www.youtube.com/live/4EzysNH...
What's This Bird LIVE! April 24, 2026
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As new generations of birders take up birding, they are taking it up in a way that looks and feels a little different. At the center of that shift is Bonner Black. The ABA is honored to interview Bonner about her work with birding, social media, and music. Read here: www.aba.org/interview-bo...
Interview: Bonner Black and the New Birding Culture - American Birding Association
As new generations of birders take up birding, they are taking it up in a way that looks and feels a little different. At the center of that shift is interviewee Bonner Black.
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A pair of Downy Woodpeckers has set up housekeeping in the silver maple at the end of my alley. But a second male has decided he wants in on the action, making for some neighborhood drama...
Spent a little time out back with Sammy yesterday, and had a few Broad-winged Hawks, a bunch of swallows, and an Osprey go over.
Raptor conservation expert Janet Ng joins host Nate Swick this week to discuss the impacts of energy infrastructure on hawk populations in open country of the North American West. Listen here: www.aba.org/how-to-be-ha...
How to be Hawky, with Janet Ng - American Birding Association
Raptor conservation expert Janet Ng joins host Nate Swick this week to discuss the impacts of energy infrastructure on hawk populations in open country of the North American West. In their discussion on this week's podcast, Ng emphasizes the importance of diverse partnerships in keeping these wild places "hawky."
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In the Mar. 2026 Birding, the ABA presents diverse commentaries on the state of the birding community. In this commentary, birding veteran Peter Pyle takes a playful but thoughtful look at the use of "electronic pishing." Read the full article here: www.aba.org/the-devil-we...
The Devil Wears Parula - American Birding Association
In a five-part Special Section in the Mar. 2026 Birding, the ABA presents diverse commentaries on the state of the birding community in the second half of 2020s. In this commentary, birding veteran Pe...
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A new thing that we've been working on for the past few months is up! Check it out:
American Birding Association@aba.org · 4mo agoNew website section! "From the magazines" gives birders an html-format sample of some of the excellent articles published in the ABA's publications. Check it out: www.aba.org/from-the-mag...
The Oregon and Washington: Fall 2025 is up! Highlights include Sharp-tailed Sandpipers, Northern Wheatear, and Yellow-green Vireos. Read the full report: www.aba.org/oregon-and-w...
Oregon and Washington: Fall 2025 - American Birding Association
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The Southern California: Fall 2025 Regional Report is out! Highlights include Ruddy Ground Dove, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, and Bar-tailed Godwit. Read the report here: www.aba.org/southern-cal...
Southern California Fall 2025 - American Birding Association
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New How to Know the Birds column, by Ted Floyd! The Florida Scrub-Jay, an ecological marvel, is a major draw for birders in Florida. What if the bird were "just" a subspecies? Would that make a difference? Read here: www.aba.org/how-to-know-...
How to Know the Birds: No. 93, The Politics of Species Limits - American Birding Association
The Florida Scrub-Jay, an ecological marvel, is a major draw for birders in Florida. What if the bird were "just" a subspecies? Would that make a difference?
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New podcast episode! Host Nate Swick leans once again on Birding magazine Editor Ted Floyd for another Random Birds discussion. The Random Number Generator has a certain late winter, early spring bias with warblers and gulls and warblers and gulls. Listen here: www.aba.org/random-birds...
Random Birds, April 2026, with Ted Floyd - American Birding Association
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Kim Check, the ABA's Director of Young Birder Programs, thoughtfully reflects on Camp Surfbird and how the ABA's partnership with the San Diego Bird Alliance creates meaningful opportunities for young birders to connect, grow, and discover. Read here: www.aba.org/camp-surfbir...
Camp Surfbird: Building Community for Young Birders Through Partnership - American Birding Association
Through partnership and shared experience, Camp Surfbird creates meaningful opportunities for young birders to connect, grow, and discover what’s possible in birding and beyond.
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Today’s Migrant: Black-and-white Warbler Weird fact: Unlike other warblers and most other birds, often moves headfirst down trees. Have you found a Black-and-white Warbler yet?
