Project Description
The Bendire’s Thrasher has declined by 87% in the past 40 years, and this globally understudied species is poorly understood in its Mexican range, where most of the population winters and much of it breeds. Great Basin Bird Observatory was awarded $14,927 to translate materials into Spanish, develop a network of partners in Mexico that will be trained to conduct surveys, host training workshops, conduct pilot studies, and share this data to the Borderlands Avian Data Center. The main project goal is to create lasting partnerships among Mexican and U.S. partners that will fill critical gaps in our knowledge of distribution, habitat use, and threats of Bendire’s Thrasher in Mexico.