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NEW YORK, N.Y. (March 2, 2016) – For the first time ever, Spanish speakers have online access to the ���Ĵ�ý's Guide to North American Birds (La Guía de Aves de América del Norte). Along with the complete field guide, the nation’s largest and oldest bird conservation group has also translated its award-winning ���Ĵ�ý magazine content, select web-only news stories and updates from the ���Ĵ�ý network.

“Birds don’t know borders and neither do the threats they face,” said David Yarnold, ���Ĵ�ý president and CEO. “Birds deal with climate change, the loss of places to live and other dangers across the hemisphere. Bringing ���Ĵ�ý’s content to Spanish-speaking communities will enable more people to care for the amazing wildlife we share.”

���Ĵ�ý will engage a growing audience to keep making progress on conservation efforts on behalf of birds in the United States and the Americas, many of which rely on habitat in several different countries along migratory pathways. The United States and Canada share many birds with Latin American and Caribbean countries, including more than 380 neotropical migrants that spend half their life or more south of the U.S. border. ���Ĵ�ý is the , the world’s largest nature conservation partnership.

“Birds are wonderful, and everyone should have a chance to enjoy them,” writes Kenn Kaufman, ���Ĵ�ý’s field editor. “By encouraging more people to appreciate birds today, we build support for actions that will lead to the survival of more birds tomorrow.”

The current ���Ĵ�ý network includes 1,000,000 members and supporters, 462 chapters, 41 centers and 23 state offices in the United States. ���Ĵ�ý and its 18 BirdLife partners in the Americas have identified, monitored and designated more than 4,900 Important Bird Areas in the Western Hemisphere, an area totaling over 1 billion acres, which provides habitat for 701 threatened species.

By the Numbers Look at Why ���Ĵ�ý.org in Spanish Makes Sense

• More than 80% of bird species in the Guide to North American Birds can also be found in Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Conversely, every Latin American and Caribbean country has at least one species found in the Guide to North American Birds.
• Climate change  of birds in North America.
• A record  speak Spanish at home.
• 79% of U.S. Hispanics  to protect U.S. wildlife, public lands and endangered species.
• 66% of U.S. Hispanics  by human activities.

To visit the ���Ĵ�ý website in Spanish, please visit www.audubon.org/es/inicio. To read a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service demographic analysis of birdwatching in the United States, please click .

The ���Ĵ�ý saves birds and their habitats throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education and on-the-ground conservation. ���Ĵ�ý's state programs, nature centers, chapters and partners have an unparalleled wingspan that reaches millions of people each year to inform, inspire and unite diverse communities in conservation action. Since 1905, ���Ĵ�ý's vision has been a world in which people and wildlife thrive. ���Ĵ�ý is a nonprofit conservation organization. Learn more at  and .

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Contact: Nicolas Gonzalez, ngonzalez@audubon.org, (212) 979-3068