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Español The SJV Technical Committee met on November 26027, 2007 at the San Diego Natural History Museum in San Diego, California. There were 30 participants representing all six states in the SJV region.
A number of SJV partners gave presentations and updates on their work, including the molt migration study (Peter Pyle), the Wild Coast bird inventory needs (Saul Alarcon), sage scrub restoration and other bird work at the Audubon Starr Ranch (Justin Shew), IBAs in California (Andrea Jones), Tri-colored Blackbird surveys in Baja California (Horacio de la Cueva), and several updates on projects from Pronatura (Osvel Hinojosa). The Waterfowl Management Supplement to the SJV Conservation Plan is in the final editing stages and SJV Science Coordinator Carol Beardmore presented it to the group.
Dan Petit, from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, attended the meeting and led a discussion about a possible SJV-National Fish and Wildlife Foundation partnership in the Borderlands region of the SJV. The group also worked on an activity about the status, abundance, frequency, distirbution, and habitat use of birds of the SJV region. This information will be used to make state and BCR lists and will also populate the SJV Species DAtabase that is currently in development.
Phil Unitt gave the group a tour of the Natural History Museum’s extensive bird specimen collection. The group also took a field trip to the Sweetwater Marsh National Wildlife Refuge to view a restoration projecte recently funded by the North American Wetlands Conservation Act. Work has not begun, but Chadd Santerre of California Waterfowl Association (the project grantee) discussed the work that will be accomplished and how it will benefit tidal flow and Snowy Plover habitat.
For information on upcoming SJV Technical Committee meetings, contact Carol Beardmore.