BIRDS.

Conservation is for the Birds!

GPS has over 15 years' experience conserving penguin species and cleaning the oceans. Click here to learn more!
NAS works to conserve birds and their habitats -- click to learn more about their work.
NABCI is a collective effort to conserve the nation's endangered birds and their habitats -- visit their website to learn more.
Penguins International is out in the field researching and conserving penguin species of the world -- click to learn more.
The Peregrine Fund is dedicated to the global conservation of all Birds of Prey. Check out their website to learn more!

“Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?”
- Sir David Attenborough, Biologist and Natural Historian

Humboldt Penguin

Spheniscus humboldti

Humboldt penguins suffer from two very distinct threats in addition to habitat loss and overfishing of their food supply. Climate change intensifies El Niño weather patterns each year, which leads to a dramatic decline in many marine species — scarce food and harsh conditions means higher chick mortality rates. This species is also directly affected by the overharvesting of guano for fertilizer, which the Humboldt penguin, specifically, uses for nesting material.

Like all species of penguin, Humboldts are monogamous and mate for life. Both parents take part in incubating the egg after digging a burrow in the dried guano (yes — poop!) on the ground.

Cinereous Vulture

(Aegypius monachus)

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Birds

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Bald Eagle

(Haliaeetus leucocephalus)

Great Grey Owl

(Strix nebulosa)

American Flamingo

Phoenicopterus ruberi

While American flamingos are not considered severely threatened, per the IUCN, their four concentrated colonies in the wild are still subject to habitat loss from constant mineral mining and human disturbance.

Flamingo chicks are born grayish-red, but become that vibrant pink color through levels of carotene and microscopic algae in their food. The carotene in the algae that brine shrimp eat gets metabolized by the birds to turn them pink — you really are what you eat!