Link: https://nationalzoo.si.edu/migratory-birds/about-bird-friendly-coffee

Summary: Instead of clearing rainforest in the tropics to grow coffee quickly, Bird-friendly coffees grow underneath shade trees or multiple layers of tree canopy that provide habitat for birds, including migratory species that visit our backyards.

Did you know that drinking bird-friendly coffee can actually help some of our hummingbirds, orioles and other backyard birds?
• In the tropics, hummingbirds often move up and down mountains and between arid and moist habitats to keep up with where the trees and shrubs are flowering. When grown under a diverse canopy of shade trees, coffee plants, the trees that shade them and the plants that grow on the trees provide a diverse smorgasbord of flower resources.
• Shaded coffee farms can support impressive numbers of hummingbird species. In one coffee-growing region in Peru, Smithsonian Migratory Bird scientists recorded 24 species over the course of a year.
• Ruby-throated hummingbirds are abundant in coffee farms in Mexico and Central America during their stay in the tropics along with more than 42 species of North American migratory songbirds, including orioles, warblers and thrushes.