Project Description The western Yellow-billed Cuckoo is a bird of regional concern, requires immediate research action, and should have long-term population trend monitoring. Our primary objective is to promote western Yellow-billed Cuckoo standardized surveys in Mexico by providing a training workshop free to Mexican biologists. The main outcome is to provide Mexican biologists with information

Project Description The Prescott College Kino Bay Center for Cultural and Ecological Studies proposes to build upon its Waterbird Monitoring Program (WMP) in the Midriff Island region of the Gulf of California. With its permanent presence, partnerships, and proven record of successful waterbird monitoring, the WMP contributes to habitat protection efforts integrating monitoring, research and

Project Description Navopatia Field Station was awarded funds to study migrant and resident bird use of the Agiabambo estuary. Numerous migratory landbirds rely on mangrove and associated upland habitats in northwest Mexico for stopover and wintering habitat. Little is known about migrant bird use of mangroves in Sonora. This will be one of the first

Project Description Reserva Monte Mojino was awarded funds to study cavity nesting birds in Sonora. A recent survey effort revealed 24 species that are obligate cavity nesters, including seven that have high SJV vulnerability scores. Cavity nesters are among the most vulnerable groups of landbirds in Mexico, but there are few resources available to guide

Project Description Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León was awarded funds to survey for the Sierra Madre Sparrow in southern Durango. The sparrow is an endangered species endemic to bunch-grasses of the Sierra Madre Occidental, and mountains of Central Mexico. Currently, only two known and isolated populations exist. The main objective of the project is to

Project Description Terra Peninsular A.C. was awarded funds to establish a nature interpretation and community-monitoring program in San Quintín Bay, the largest coastal wetland on the Pacific Coast of Baja California. The bay is under threat from habitat destruction, unsustainable livestock grazing, and human disturbance. Conservation action cannot be accomplished without the support of the

Project Description The California Institute of Environmental Studies will conduct Scripps’s Murrelet nest monitoring and spotlight surveys during the 2018 breeding season at Anacapa Island in Channel Islands National Park. The Scripps’s Murrelet is a rare alcid that only breeds on 12 islands off the coast of California and northern Mexico, with one of the