After 50 years of recovery, California Brown Pelicans are nesting at historically high levels in the California Channel Islands. The next steps will be to research the dynamics between the Channel Islands population and the Gulf of California breeding population, which is not experiencing the same success.
Off the coast of Sonora, Mexico, researchers are monitoring Craveri’s Murrelet, a small and charismatic seabird to learn more about how the species is persevering in an ever-changing and unforgiving world.
Grupo de Ecología y Conservación de Islas is leading monitoring and conservation efforts for this priority seabird in Mexico.
After almost 3 decades, surveyors across the U.S. are revisiting wetland sites in 11 western states to get updated data about shorebird populations and the distribution of habitats and food resources across this critical network of wetlands.
By capturing a snapshot of cuckoo occupancy across the entire range for the first time, our ongoing analyses will fill critical gaps in knowledge for the species and inform conservation and recovery plans.
The dedicated members of the Desert Thrasher Working Group are still hard at work conducting range-wide U.S. surveys, expanding research into Mexico, and tracking movements of these elusive and declining desert birds.
Our new coastal Motus network has allowed us to track birds tagged along the western hemisphere and to start filling knowledge gaps on several species of conservation concern.
The Collaborative Conservation and Adaptation Strategy Toolbox (CCAST) is a peer-to-peer knowledge-sharing platform that helps land managers tackle tough conservation challenges.
Borderlands Restoration Network was awarded a $977,000 grant to manage restoration projects within the Fort Huachuca Sentinel Landscape. The Sonoran Joint Venture was actively involved in the development of the application and will continue to provide support and expertise in the implementation.
We are pleased to announce that the SJV awarded $35,000 in small grants in 2022. Congratulations to our partners at the Prescott College Kino Bay Center for Cultural and Ecological Studies, Terra Peninsular, and Pasadena Audubon Society for your successful applications in support of bird and habitat conservation.
For wildlife rehabilitators, lead poisoning and exposure to anticoagulant rodenticides have become all too common diagnoses for their patients, especially birds of prey. These contaminants permeate the food chain and ecosystems, leading to widespread impacts.
Selenium is an increasingly common toxin found within N.A. wetlands due to its accumulation in agricultural drainage water. Researchers are studying the impacts of this contaminant on the endangered Yuma Ridgway’s Rail.
Human and livestock pharmaceuticals are increasingly entering ecosystems as contaminants, leading to a multitude of known and unknown impacts on environmental and wildlife health.
An increase in heavy metal concentrations was detected in wading bird eggs after dredging activity in the Tóbari Bay lagoon system in southern Sonora, Mexico.
Ironwood Tree Experience and the Sonoran Joint Venture brought birding, nature, art, and experiential learning programs to communities across Tucson. Events culminated with an art exhibition to celebrate our connections to birds and nature.
Since 1998, the Environmental Education and Community Leadership Program at the Kino Bay Center for Cultural and Ecological Studies has left a lasting impression on local youth, including past student and current leader, Johana Nieblas.
Through the Borderlands Earth Care Youth program, young land stewards work with rock, wood, seeds, hands, and hearts to restore the transnational watersheds they call home.
With funding provided by the SJV’s Awards Program, Borderlands Restoration Network employed a multi-pronged restoration approach to improve degraded habitat through volunteer engagement, partnerships, erosion control, and revegetation.
Seabird colonies on San Pedro Mártir Island have declined over the last 30 years. Using GPS devices placed on birds, priority marine areas are being identified and a conservation plan is being established.
The Safari Park Biodiversity Reserve is a 900-acre protected area in the San Pasqual Valley of San Diego’s North County. San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance partnered with the SJV to start monitoring bird populations to better understand the importance of this habitat for wildlife.