American Birding Association—What's a Birder To Do? American Birding Association—A (Coffee) Glossary for Birders Coffee Kids—Grounds for Hope Coffee and Conservation—Sustainable Coffee Blog Conservation International—What Is Conservation Coffee? Rainforest Alliance—How Green Are Your Beans? Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center—Coffee Criteria Links Songbird Foundation—Change a Habit...Save a Habitat
Cafe Campesino—Fair-trade and Shade-grown Coffees Cafe Canopy Company—Shade Management Criteria Counter Culture Coffee—Sanctuary Coffees Equal Exchange—What Is Shade-grown Coffee?
Green Mountain Coffee—Stewardship Coffees Thanksgiving Coffee Company —Shade Coffee Issues
Atlanta Audubon SGC T-shirt—Wear the Message! National Audubon—Atlanta Chapter News National Audubon—Seattle Chapter News Seattle Audubon Society— Northwest Shade Coffee Campaign
Conservation Links
Coffee Companies & the Issues
Audubon Chapter Coffee Campaigns
photo by Victor Williams
Indigo Buntings favor brushy edges and forest clearings in the East and Midwest. Many migrate across the Gulf of Mexico to winter in habitat provided by shade coffee farms in Central America as far south as Panama.