Birding Magazine

3 days ago | aba.org | Rebecca Minardi

The Breeding Birds of Minnesota: History, Ecology, and Conservation, by Lee A. Pfannmuller, Gerald J. Niemi, and Janet C. GreenUniversity of Minnesota Press, 2024616 pages, hardcoverABA Sales–Buteo Books 15235 Minnesota’s first-ever breeding bird atlas was officially completed in 2013 after four years of painstaking work. Birders collected nearly 400,000 records to completely survey this massive state.

1 week ago | aba.org | Frank Izaguirre

Proposed Elimination of the Bird Banding Laboratory Could Devastate Bird Conservation and Migration ScienceThe 2026 proposed federal budget includes cuts that would eliminate the Ecosystems Mission Area (EMA), which includes the Bird Banding Laboratory (BBL), housed under the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). If this closure comes to pass, there will be enormous repercussions for conservationists, wildlife researchers, and birders.

1 week ago | aba.org | Nate Swick

Texas continues to host most of the continuing rarities in the ABA Area this week with Mottled Owl (ABA Code 5) and Brown Jay (4) still present in the Valley and Cattle Tyrant (5) and Yellow-headed Caracara (5) on the upper coast. Yellow-headed Caracara (5) also continues to be seen in Florida. Newfoundland & Labrador continue to host surprising records following a very interesting spring in the province, though this time the bird is surprising for somewhat different reasons.

1 week ago | aba.org | Nate Swick

The end of May means, for many of us, the end of spring. But before this magical month is over we bring a great panel of birdy friends together to talk about some of the interesting bird news that has come across our vitual desks. Welcome Stephanie Beilke, Tim Healy, and Brodie Cass Talbott to talk birding without tech, warbler foraging strategies and the birds and bees, literally.

1 week ago | aba.org | Ted Floyd

What: Three-banded Plover, Thinornis tricollarisWhen: Sunday, March 30, 2025Where: Deteema Springs, Hwange National Park, Matabeleland North, ZimbabweThe bird was an afterthought, an anticlimax. A quite small shorebird just standing by itself at the muddy edge of a watering hole. It was funny-looking, red-eyed and bleary, as if sleep-deprived. Which, come to think of it, so was I.