There are researchers, educators, and conservationists in Latin America and the Caribbean striving to protect birds and their habitats, but many are working without the most basic equipment, such as binoculars and field guides.

The American Birding Association’s Birders’ Exchange program collects donated new and used equipment and distributes it to our colleagues working to conserve birds and their habitats throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.

Betty Petersen receives World Environment Day Award for “Ideas That Change The World”

Betty Petersen and the American Birding Association’s Birders’ Exchange Program received The World Environment Day Award for “Ideas that change the World”, in recognition of her numerous and ongoing contributions to education, conservation and research of birds, especially shorebirds, in the Americas.  Read more »

A Neotropical Companion in Spanish

John Kricher’s essential guide to the tropics, in its second edition from Princeton University Press, is now available in this long-awaited Spanish translation, Un Compañero Neotropical.

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Pablo Andrade. Ecuador

Thank you to Birders’ Exchange for this generous donation. Among the activities that we have been working are Environmental Education Activities in Loja Ecuador with Fundacion Socio Cultural Don Bosco are: Read more »

RESERVE BIRDS OF SOATA: Saving three species in Colombia.

Chestnut Bellied Hummingbird, Niceforo’s Wren and Mountain Grackle

The Chestnut Bellied Hummingbird inhabits promontane  forests occurring principally between 2400 and 1800 m. Evidence  that the Amazilia castaneiventris “should” not be rare due to a specialized diet and the most frequently used, “ Yatago” Tricanthera gigantea ( Pic) are widely distributed in the A. castaneiventris  range. It is likely that flowering patterns of these and other species are responsible for the seasonal movements of the species; this is supported by the fact that most records of the species from Yanacocha occur after May when flowering peaks in the area. Read more »

A note of thanks from Guyana

Dear Birders’ Exchange,

Hope all is well.  We are attaching a few pictures with a couple of our Members from the GUYANA AMAZON TROPICAL BIRDS SOCIETY (GATBS) . As you can see this equipment is used for field trips, assessments, and researchers of the society

Our partner the Guyana Amazon Tropical Birds Society goes from strength to strength.  One of the goals of the GATBS is to educate the public about birds and bird conservation.  The Society has been  particularly successful in reaching at-risk youth.  Since its official registration in May 2005, the Society has inspired over 80 youths to join as members and devote their time and energy to conservation. Read more »

BEX helps the study of two endangered species in Peru

The following is from Bennett Hennessy of Armonia, Bolivia: Read more »

A Thank you from Marcela Colombini of Argentina

You have no idea. I mean, for sure you thought I would be happy receiving those binoculars in the name of American Birding Association and Birder’s Exchange.

But happy, grateful, astonished, fascinated, pleased, surprised, cheerful, speechless, amazed, excited, stunned, are words unable to express my feelings… even all of them together!
I have maaaany other feelings than all those; actually I am indescribable moved!!! Read more »