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PROEVAL RAXMU Bird Monitoring Program

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Brown-backed Solitaire Myadestes occidentalis

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

-Long-term monitoring of bird populations in Alta Verapaz

-Monitoring of bird communities on the Guatemalan Pacific slope

-Natural history of Guatemalan birds

-Contribution to the identification of Important Bird Areas (IBA) in Guatemala. See presentations of the proposals for IBAs in Mesoamerica during a IBA Symposio in Antigua Guatemala, November 2006.

-Contribute to population status evaluation of threatened species, e.g. Red List status of Highland Guan has been upgraded from Near Threatened to Vulnerable based on Eisermann, K., N. Herrera & O. Komar (2006) Highland Guan (Penelopina nigra). Pp. 85-90 In: D. M. Brooks (ed.) Conserving Cracids: the most threatened family of birds in the Americas. Miscellaneous Publications of the Houston Museum of Natural Science 6.
See species fact sheet of threatened species at BirdLife International's World Bird Data Base: http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html

-PROEVAL RAXMU Bird Monitoring Program contributed data for Highland and Horned Guan, Yellow-headed Parrot, Keel-billed Motmot, Pink-headed Warbler, and Azure-rumped Tanager to BirdLife International's 2008 update on the Red List of Threatened Birds (www.birdlife.org/datazone/).

-In collaboration with the Center for the Study of Tropical Birds, the PROEVAL RAXMU Bird Monitoring Program evaluated the status of Ocellated Quail Cyrtonyx ocellatus (Eitniear & Eisermann 2009).

-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.

Program Director

Knut Eisermann (Engineer for Nature Conservation and Landscape Use),

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