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Friendly Coffee - What is It? What is Bird Friendly Coffee or
Shade Grown Coffee? Bird friendly coffee is coffee grown on
farms under a shade-tree canopy, forest-like habitat. Bird
friendly coffee mostly benefits neotropical migratory songbirds
that winter in Central American rainforests. Habitat loss,
especially tropical rainforests, have caused a decline in
migratory songbird populations. And sun coffee plantations have
contributed to this loss. Bird Friendly and the Smithsonian
Migratory Bird Center: We have been speaking in the general
sense that "bird friendly coffee" is any coffee grown on shaded
farms. But actually the phrase, "Bird Friendly®" has been trade-
marked by the Smithsonian Migratory of the National Zoo. Coffees
with this logo mean that they are certified as shade grown and
organic by an independent third-party inspector using the
Smithsonian's criteria. And Bird Friendl