When a bird goes extinct, it’s gone forever. Last year, it was 11 species—and now, at least 389 bird species are at increasing risk of climate extinction, including the Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo.
The Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo is one of the West’s most imperiled birds. Listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, there are still vast swathes of its habitat excluded from protection—and drought, climate change, and water uncertainty will challenge it in the extreme.
This code-red crisis requires our immediate attention:
2021 had the largest number of extinctions ever announced by the government.
389 North American bird species are at increasing risk of climate extinction.
We’ve lost 3 billion birds in the span of a human lifetime.
Strong conservation laws are critical to protecting vulnerable birds and their habitats. To preserve the Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo’s habitat—and therefore give the species the space to rebound—we’ve helped secure hundreds of thousands of acres of critical habitat across western forests, rivers, and streams: places that are essential to the future of this species and the survival of many others.
