AMERICAN BIRD CONSERVANCY During my stint as Director of the Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania, I had the good fortune to make friends with a guy who was just starting up a new bird conservation group. George Fenwick had been the national director of science for The Nature Conservancy but grew tired of being part of a huge organization. George wanted to see if he could create a small but effective organization dedicated to bird conservation. One of the biggest problems that comes with being small in the nonprofit world is that others often get credit for your work. The American Bird Conservancy has done many good things for birds, including taking the lead on getting bird killing pesticides taken off the market in this country as well as in South America. Unfortunately, when people hear of good things being done for birds, they automatically think of the Audubon Society. ABC had done work on tower kills, forest fragmentation, Important Bird Areas and others but one of my favorite programs of theirs is called “Cats Indoors”. If you have heard me talk about house cats before, you know I cite this program often. It is not an anti-cat program. In fact it is very much a pro-cat program who’s goal is to educate cat owners about the importance of keeping their pets indoors. ABC is very much about bringing groups together to resolve problems. They do this in a very efficient and effective way and I applaud their efforts. Please visit their website at www.abcbirds.org or come by the store and pick up a free copy of their most recent magazine. Consider supporting them. They need it as well as the birds.

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