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@aba.orgHappy World Migratory Bird Day!
This World Migratory Bird Day, let's celebrate migration by practicing ethical birding and helping ensure these remarkable travelers have safe places to rest, refuel, and thrive.
ABA Code of Birding Ethics available here: www.aba.org/aba-code-of-...
@aba.orgNew podcast episode!
The recent split of Mew Gull into Short-billed Gull and Common Gull has offered yet another complicated ID concern for dedicated gull-watchers to ponder. Amar Ayyash talks about the status of Old World Common Gulls in the ABA Area
Listen here: www.aba.org/not-so-commo...
@aba.orgBay Area birders! Heading to the Berkeley Bird Festival this Sunday? Be sure to stop by the ABA table in the afternoon and catch up with Ioana Seritan, the ABA’s Young Birder Programs Coordinator! Hope to see you there!
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@aba.orgIn the upcoming Birding travel special issue, Sharon Wada will take readers to the wetlands of Costa Rica’s Caño Negro Wildlife Refuge in “Feeling the Heat in Caño Negro: A Costa Rican Hotspot Worth the Sweat.”
Join the ABA today to receive this special issue!
@aba.orgThe special travel issue of Birding magazine is going to press soon, and it’s packed with birding travel inspiration.
Among the feature articles is “20 Best Birds in Sichuan” by Steven An, a spectacular look into the region's jaw-dropping birdlife.
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@aba.orgIn the upcoming travel-themed special issue of Birding magazine, Sam Woods and Keith Barnes map out a strategy for finding all 250 currently recognized families.
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@aba.orgUpcoming ABA Community Weekend in Charleston, South Carolina!
Join the American Birding Association for a full weekend of birding, community, and celebration in and around Charleston, South Carolina, Nov. 21–22, 2026!
Learn more and sign up: www.aba.org/aba-communit...
@aba.orgThis week's rare bird alert roundup is out.
Read here: www.aba.org/rare-bird-al...
@aba.orgThe ABA Community Weekend in St. Louis, Missouri, has concluded. Thank you to everyone who joined us for a weekend of birding, learning, and connecting, especially to our excellent partners, like St. Louis Audubon Society and Vortex Optics, who helped make the weekend a success.
@aba.orgWe’ll have multiple opportunities to look for the iconic Andean Condor on the ABA’s Chile Birding: Deserts, Wetlands, and Rainforest, Oct. 10–22, 2027.
Learn more and sign up: www.aba.org/chile-birdin...
@aba.orgDespite a powerful Nor’easter bringing flooding and high winds, forcing some families to cancel, our Young Birder-led Field Trip at the Maryland Ornithological Society Convention was a success! Thank you to our young leaders, their families, MOS, and everyone who made this event possible.
@aba.orgThe Green-tailed Towhee is one of the more distinctive sparrows we search for on the ABA’s Southeast Arizona: Sparrows of the Grasslands and Sky Islands workshop.
Join the ABA in southeastern Arizona! Learn more and sign up: www.aba.org/southeast-ar...
@aba.orgWith its brilliant emerald-green plumage, orange mask, and coral-red bill and legs, the Grass-green Tanager is an unmistakable Andean tanager of humid montane forests.
Learn more and sign up for the ABA's tour to Peru: www.aba.org/southern-per...
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@jhmsparky.bsky.socialReposted by @aba.orgIt also occurs to me that @aba.org's #BirdoftheYear fits today's #BirdogtheDay #Borb theme. Check out American Birding Association's Tee here: www.aba.org/store/horned...
@aba.orgIt is daunting to keep up with the explosion of ornithological research at the present time. Mikko Jimenez, Andres Jimenez, and Sarah Swanson join host Nate Swick to discuss recent research on everything from plover conservation to songbird migration.
Listen here: www.aba.org/this-month-i...
@aba.orgFall of 2026 is shaping up to be another invasion season for a few montane species, especially a couple corvids, which are engaging in widespread movements.
Asher Gorbet explains:
