For several years, the Hummingbird Monitoring Network (HMN) has focused its efforts on monitoring and studying hummingbird populations to obtain information crucial to their conservation of these magnificent creatures. Hummingbird Conservation Networks (HCNs) is the result of integrating community-based conservation ideas into HMN’s science-based beginning. HCNs’ mission, essentially unchanged from HMN’s original goal, is to aid hummingbirds in their survival, reproduction, and ability to thrive all while engaging human communities in these efforts, realizing how humans, too, can benefit economically, socially, and ecologically through their hummingbird conservation activities. Maintaining hummingbird diversity and abundance throughout the Americas remains a  primary focus of the organization.