The Arizona Game and Fish Department has launched an innovative new tool that utilizes the latest mapping technology to put wildlife data at your fingertips. HabiMap™ Arizona is a user-friendly, web-based data viewer that allows users to visually explore the distribution of the state’s wildlife, wildlife conservation potential, and stressors to wildlife. “This is a …
The seventh Ensenada de La Paz Christmas Bird Count was hugely successful. A total of 23 participants documented a record 153 species. The count compiler was Daniel Galindo with assistance from Eduardo Palacios. Some highlights included 541 Marbled Godwits, one Hermit Thrush, twenty-two Reddish Egrets, one Pomarine Jaeger, and fourteen new species to the count. …
Reprinted from the WHSRNews, 5 January 2012 A momentous workshop was held in October 2011 in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, to develop the first-ever standardized shorebird-monitoring protocol for Mexico. A total of 41 participants from 29 institutions attended the workshop, part of the project “Monitoring Western Sandpipers and Pacific Dunlins in Northwest Mexico” funded by the U.S. Forest …
By Eduardo Palacios On 14-17 January 2012, two teams of two-observers each surveyed the Snowy Plover population wintering in Bahía de San Quintín, Baja California, Mexico. Results are shown by type of habitat and locality of Bahia de San Quintin in Table 1. On 18 January 2012 we also surveyed the barrier beach of Estero …
PRBO Conservation Science (PRBO) recently completed a landscape prioritization analysis within the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP) planning area that identifies areas of high and low value to 66 breeding bird species and associated vegetation. Their analytical approach can be used to include other wildlife species for a more robust landscape prioritization. Their results …
The Montrose and Luckenbach Trustee Councils and the Government of Mexico have announced a $4 million dollar award to a U.S-Mexico partnership that will implement a comprehensive five-year program focused on restoring seabird populations on seven islands off the Pacific coast of Mexico. Improvement of nesting grounds in Mexico will create more stable and viable …
A new effort aimed and better understanding the predicted impacts of climate change to birds and habitats within the SJV region and beyond.
Join the Sonoran Joint Venture and partners in Sierra Vista, Arizona for a workshop on Grassland Birds of southern Arizona and northern Sonora.
RMBO recently announced a project in conjunction with winter bird research in the Chihuahuan Desert grasslands of Mexico and west Texas.
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 …
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