The PROEVAL RAXMU Bird Monitoring Program focusses on bird studies in Guatemala and Middle America.

New: Vocalizations of Guatemalan Pygmy-Owl (posted: Dec 2011) Assessment of the avifauna at Cerro El Amay Important Bird Area (IBA GT006) (posted: Sep 2011) Results of PROEVAL RAXMU studies on the Endangered Azure-rumped Tanager published in several journal articles (updated: Aug 2011)

Cover painting by Albert Earl Gilbert Book available at: Buteobooks, US. Lynx Edicions, Spain. nhbs Environment Bookstore, UK.

Objectives

1. Contribute to the knowledge on the ecology of Guatemalan bird species and populations.
2. Evaluate human impacts on bird populations.
3. Identify critical areas for conservation.
4. Develop awareness towards nature conservation among local people.

Research and Community Outreach

-Bird diversity and distribution in Guatemala

-Natural history of Guatemalan birds

-Contribution to the evaluation of threatened species

-Contribution to the identification of Important Bird Areas (IBA) in Guatemala. See
BirdLife's directory of IBAs in the Americas, with a chapter on Guatemalan IBAs and
Article on Guatemalan IBAs in the Proceedings of the Fourth International Partners in Flight Conference, McAllen, TX: pages 315-327.

-Long-term monitoring of bird populations in Alta Verapaz

-Monitoring of bird communities on the Guatemalan Pacific slope

-Support Christmas Bird Counts in Tikal, Antigua Guatemala, and on Atitlan Volcano

To link bird data to habitat characterisitics and human impacts we collect the following data:
Habitat distribution
Vegetation density
Floristic inventories
Other taxa

In addition to scientic publications, information from the monitoring program is distributed during slide shows in rural communities and through posters and popular publications:
Community outreach

The PROEVAL RAXMU Bird Monitoring Program supports the publication of Pato-Poc, Bulletin of the Ornithological Society of Guatemala.

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