el Grupo Cerúleo
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Investigations of Cerulean Warbler Occurrence in the Northern Andes, 2005-2006
Funded by El Grupo Cerúleo, subcommittee of Cerulean Warbler Technical Group
Brief History of Our Project
Cerulean Warbler Technical Group has been in existence since summer 2001, as an ad hoc group dedicated to providing information exchange to inform and support conservation of the Cerulean Warbler. At our December, 2002, meeting in Shepherdstown, WV, we arranged ourselves into several subcommittees. One of these subcommittees, El Grupo Cerúleo, is involved in investigations of the birds on their South American nonbreeding grounds. Since 2003-2004, we have supported field investigations of the birds in the northern Andean countries of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.
What We Are Doing
In 2005, the Cerulean Warbler Technical Group received funding from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to support conservation activities of the Group. Some of these funds were dedicated to supporting field surveys to locate and study populations of the birds in the northern Andes in the 2005-2006 nonbreeding season. Additional funds to support this research have been obtained from the U.S. Forest Service, Office of International Programs, as part of a larger grant to The Nature Conservancy’s Migratory Bird Program . After evaluation of 12 proposals submitted to an El Grupo Cerúleo Request for Proposals, 9 studies will be supported in Oct 2005 – Mar 2006. A complete list of the proposals funded, with their titles, investigators, institutions, and countries, is as follows:
Principal Investigator(s), Institution, Project Title, Country3 August 2005
Review Committee:
Paul Greenfield, coauthor, The Birds of Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
Paul Hamel, USDA Forest Service, Stoneville, MS, USA
David Mehlman, The Nature Conservancy, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Paolo Ramoni-Perazzi, Universidad de los Andes, Merida, Venezuela
Contact Person:
Paul Hamel
USDA Forest Service
P.O. Box 227, 432 Stoneville Rd.
Stoneville, MS 38776
Phone: 662-686-3167
FAX: 662-686-3195
Email: phamel@fs.fed.us