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Español Brochure printing and local guide training to enhance the quality of birding experience in the Santa Cruz and San Pedro Rivers
Project Description This project will promote environmental and economic stability in the Santa Cruz watershed by implementing conservation strategies that address both ecological and community issues. In 2000 the Sonoran Institute established the Community Conservation Center (CCC) of the Santa Cruz River in San Lázaro, Sonora. The CCC functions as a field station and community
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Arizona’s Important Bird Areas Program: sites inventory component
Project Description Tucson Audubon Society (TAS) leads the Important Bird Area Program (IBA) for the state of Arizona. This program works with Audubon chapters, agency biologists, university scientists, regional non-profits, and citizens to provide a statewide inventory of sites critical to birds of conservation concern, sites where birds congregate in large numbers, or sites with
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Arizona/Sonora bird migration monitoring network
Project Description This project is a coordinated series of six sites (three mountain and three lowland, four in Arizona and two in Sonora) selected to measure and monitor bird migration across a broad front of southeastern Arizona and northern Sonora through the use of constant effort mist netting. The six sites selected comprise a variety
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Mapping the Possible: Products of the Conservation Priorities Workshop of the Colorado River Delta
Project Description The objective of this proposal is to develop and distribute the complete products of the Mapping Conservation Priorities of the Colorado River Delta Workshop. This binational workshop took place in Tijuana, Mexico on October 14-17, 2002. Working in interdisciplinary teams, participants had the opportunity to discuss the biophysical characteristics and ecological relationships of
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Villa Verde restoration site monitoring, Sonora, Mexico
Project Description Much of the conservation work in the San Pedro Watershed of Arizona stops at the U.S. border, and areas located just a few miles south remain almost unknown. Villa Verde, a main tributary to the Upper San Pedro River, is located approximately 25 km southeast of the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area
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The Desert Bird Conservation Plan
Project Description Migrant and resident bird populations of the Mojave and Sonoran deserts of southeastern California, southern Nevada, western Arizona, and northwest Mexico face numerous threats. As development increases across these habitats, local and federal agencies will require a comprehensive guide for managing affected bird communities of the deserts. The Desert Bird Conservation Plan (BCP)
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Capacity Building for Avian Monitoring and Conservation in Baja, California, Mexico
Project Description PRBO Conservation Science, with partners from the Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE) and Terra Peninsular, A.C., and support from the Sonoran Joint Venture, have been expanding collaborative, bi-national bird studies, training and monitoring programs, and conservation efforts in northwestern Baja California, with an emphasis on the seriously
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Yellow-billed Cuckoo habitat requirements and riparian habitat inventory of the Salt River Valley and the lower San Pedro River, Arizona, USA
Project Description Western populations of the Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus occidentalis) have decreased and the species’ future is uncertain. Despite this, the basic habitat requirements of this species are largely unknown. Some of the largest concentrations of the western Yellow-billed Cuckoo occur within the Sonoran Joint Venture boundaries, including along the Salt and the San
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Projects 2002
American Eagle Research Institute: Yaqui River Bald Eagle Report IMADES: Developing and Implementing a Conservation Plan for Sonoran Riparian Habitats Pronatura: Assessment of the Distribution and Relative Abundance of Rails in the Coastal Wetlands of the Baja Peninsula and Sonora, Mexico Proyecto Corredor Colibrí: Riparian Restoration at Villa Verde, Sonora, Mexico Sonoran Institute: Survey and
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Projects 2001
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum: Bilingual Pollinator Brochure City of Yuma: Yuma East Wetlands Restoration Project Ducks Unlimited: Whitewater Draw Wetlands Restoration Project Liberty Wildlife: Avian Electrocution Reduction Manual for Arizona and the Southwest Translation Pronatura: California Least Tern Monitoring and Protection Sonoran Institute: Santa Cruz River Avian Monitoring University of Arizona: Avian Monitoring in the Colorado
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