Sonoran Desert Breeding Bird Surveys: a coordinated approach
By John Arnett, Edwin Juarez and Kurt Licence The Sonoran Desert, an environment with blistering summer temperatures, frigid winter nights, and months of no precipitation, tests many of its residents to the thresholds of their physiological tolerances. Over 60 species of birds breed in this environment and many populations are naturally small and typically at
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Breeding Bird Surveys in northern Mexico
By Vicente Rodríguez and Diana Venegas The Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) is a large-scale, long-term bird monitoring program originally designed to understand population trends of various species that were affected by DDT in the middle of the 20th century. Now, with more than 30 years of accumulated data, the results from the BBS are one
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Bird monitoring expedition in northwest in Sonora, Mexico
Are you an active birder interested in helping to conserve bird populations in the Sky Island Region? Join Sky Island Alliance, the Arizona Coordinated Bird Monitoring Program, and Tucson Audubon Society to inventory bird populations in critical habitats located in Northern Mexico. This is a two-part adventure including a training in September of 2012 and
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Coordinated shorebird monitoring at 11 WHSRN sites in northwest Mexico
A momentous workshop was held in October 2011 in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, to develop the first-ever standardized shorebird-monitoring protocol for Mexico.
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Coordinated Bird Monitoring in Arizona: implementing surveys for riparian associated priority species in the Arid Borderlands and Mexican Highlands regions
Project Description The Arizona Coordinated Bird Monitoring Program provides a framework for the design and implementation of the long-term monitoring of Arizona’s birds. The first segment of the program is to implement statewide riparian surveys. The objectives are to estimate and monitor the number of birds, by species, breeding (or attempting to breed) within riparian
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