Research shows that we’ve lost 3 billion birds since 1970 and the vast majority of them were migratory. Climate change is one of the biggest threats to birds and people alike, with two-thirds of North American bird species at increasing risk of extinction due to our warming planet.
In response to this crisis, Audubon is working to "bend the bird curve" by halting, and ultimately reversing, the decline of bird populations across the Americas. To get there, we are improving and expanding habitat, tackling the impacts and causes of climate change, leveraging public and corporate policies and funding to achieve gains in habitat and climate, and growing a base of supporters inspired to change the world for birds.
For more than a century, we’ve preserved bird habitats, conducted scientific research, worked with policymakers to enact commonsense conservation laws, and engaged communities across the hemisphere to protect the natural resources upon which birds—and we—depend. Our hemispheric approach recognizes that the majority of bird species in the Americas migrate annually between Canada, the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Our programs are like the birds—not bound by political boundaries and seamlessly integrated across the Western Hemisphere.
Will you join us?
For the first time, researchers have estimated the volume of total avian loss in the Western Hemisphere—and it’s not just threatened species that are declining. Many backyard favorites are also losing ground.
Read Audubon's new climate report, which finds that two-thirds of North American birds are at increasing risk of extinction from global temperature rise. Find out how species in your state will be affected, and which birds we can help by acting now.
A majority of the migratory wildlife species at risk in first report of its kind are birds.
