Bird Conservation Fund

05/31/2025

Some promising news. The endangered Black-capped Petrel is the only gadfly petrel that still breeds in the Caribbean, now reduced to just a few known nesting sites in the mountains of Hispaniola. Now one has finally been found in the historic breeding range on the island of Dominica. Hopefully conservation can spring into action and protect the nesting sites if they can be found.

02/25/2025

The Bird Conservation Fund (BCF) is teaming up with the Baltic Environmental Forum Lithuania to raise $7,800 to strengthen a second population of Aquatic Warbler in southern Lithuania through a translocation. The proposed grant would underwrite food and dietary supplements for the translocated birds as well as for accommodations for volunteers working in the 2025 season.

The Aquatic warbler (Acrocephalus paludicola) is Europe’s rarest songbird and the only globally threatened passerine bird found in mainland Europe. Over the past century, 95% of its population has been lost, and numbers continue to decline. Currently, the species breeds in only four countries—Belarus, Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania—whereas it once nested in Germany, Latvia, and Hungary. With an estimated global population of just 8,000 singing males , the Aquatic Warbler is the rarest and the only globally threatened passerine bird found in mainland Europe.

Building a Second Aquatic Warbler Population in Southern Lithuania through Translocation The Bird Conservation Fund (BCF) is teaming up with the Baltic Environmental Forum Lithuania to raise $7,800 to strengthen a second population of Aquatic Warbler in southern Lithuania through a translocation. Th...

12/02/2024

For Giving Tuesday, help protect endangered birds worldwide with a year-end gift to Bird Conservation Fund.

We are a 100% volunteer-run California 501(c)3 non-profit. BCF hand-selects worthwhile projects with measurable conservation outcomes, supporting field work for endangered species around the world.

100% of your donation goes directly to field work. To give a year-end gift to BCF or to one of our open projects visit https://birdfund.networkforgood.com/ or our main website at www.birdfund.org - Your gift will make a difference!

Thank you from the BCF team!

Please stand up for birds with the Bird Conservation Fund. Every investment we make starts with you. Your support will help us take action to protect birds. Our commitment is that 100% of your donation will support bird conservation. Since our fo...

10/28/2024

Our next campaign is a project in Zimbabwe to protect the Secretarybird through community-based conservation and monitoring. Teaming up with the African Birding Club, the Bird Conservation Fund seeks to raise $3,950 to fund this important work. Read about our latest project at https://www.birdfund.org/zimbabwe-secretarybird

The endangered Secretarybird is an iconic and enigmatic terrestrial raptor in sub-Saharan Africa. They are undergoing a prolonged decline across their entire range. Please support this funding drive with a donation at https://birdfund.networkforgood.com/ and join our mailing list for updates on our campaigns.

Training Community Custodians The Bird Conservation Fund (BCF) is teaming up with the African Bird Club (ABC) to raise $3,950 to support a Secretary Bird project that will create a network of 8 fully trained custodians who are locally based from various villages across the two...

01/11/2024

REMINDER: Free talk on the conservation of the Critically Endangered Masked Finfoot. Tuesday 16 January, 2024 at 7PM Pacific Time. Please contact us ([email protected] or via Messenger) for your zoom link.

The call will include a short presentation by Sayam U. Chowdhury, who will be the lead scientist on the project. We also have an American birder, Nathan Goldberg on hand to talk about his search for the Masked Finfoot in 2022. The presentation will be followed by a conversation with Yong Ding Li who serves as the Regional Flyway Coordinator for Birdlife International (Asia).

Bird Conservation Fund is putting together a $9,500 grant that will support a team of conservationists in their effort to study and protect the small remaining population of Masked Finfoots in Bangladesh. As of January 9, we have raised $7,540 toward our target $9,500 for this project.

Contact us at [email protected] for a Zoom Link to this free presentation. To donate or to learn more please visit our website at www.birdfund.org

12/14/2023

Please join BCF's year-end campaign to protect the critically-endangered Masked Finfoot.

We have run successful campaigns in 2023 to fund important field work to protect the Sociable Lapwing and to search for the elusive Makira Moorhen. Now we are turning attention to an important project that will support field biologists’ efforts to save the Masked Finfoot from extinction. We need your help.

BCF is raising $9,500 that will support eight months of field surveys and research into the remain population of Masked Finfoot in the Sundarbans region of Bangladesh. The project will locate nesting sites, document the Finfoot’s breeding ecology, and address hunting threats. It is believed that only a few hundred birds remain globally with about half in Bangladesh. The findings of this vital work will hopefully lead to the creation of a Masked Finfoot task-force under the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP).

As with all Bird Conservation Fund projects, 100% of your donation goes to the designated grant recipient. Please consider a year-end gift via https://birdfund.networkforgood.com or contact us directly at [email protected]

photo of Masked Finfoot by Sayam U. Chowdhury.

Saving Birds Starts with you

08/08/2023

A reminder that we are hosting a free zoom presentation tonight on the conservation of the endangered Sociable Lapwing. Everyone is welcome to join.

The presenter will be Rob Sheldon, Chairman of the Ornithological Society of the Middle East, and we will also have a short video presentation by Oleg Kashkarov of the Uzbekistan Society for the Protection of Birds. The Zoom link is below:

Tuesday August 8th, 6:30pm Pacific Time.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82662845971

For questions: [email protected]
To learn more or donate: www.birdfund.org

08/01/2023

We love good news!
www.hawaiipublicradio.org/the-conversation/2023-07-26/rare-seabird-nests-discovered-in-american-samoa-for-the-first-time-in-nearly-40-years?fbclid=IwAR3sINW0d7qp40rCnuclhT6qf7VWDNBtT3hiSxacR5mZrJ_Qngdzn-KOdiY

For the first time since 1986, scientists have discovered the burrows of the rare Taʻiʻo, or Tahiti Petrel, on the island of Tutuila in American Samoa. The burrows were found by researchers from the Hawaiʻi-based organization Archipelago Research and Conservation. The Conversation's Russell Subio...

08/01/2023

Bird Conservation Fund is hosting a free talk on the status of the Critically Endangered Sociable Lapwing in Uzbekistan. Rob Sheldon (Ornithological Society of the Middle East) and Oleg Kashkarov (Uzbekistan Society for the Protection of Birds) will provide us with an overview of their work. The Bird Conservation Fund is seeking to raise $5,000 to help support Sociable Lapwing conservation.

Tuesday August 8th, 6:30pm Pacific Time.
Zoom presentation.
Please respond to [email protected] to receive a link to this free talk.

BCF provides small grants to projects working to protect endangered bird species globally. To donate to this worthwhile project, please visit our site www.birdfund.org and click Donate.