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

-Avian diversity and bird 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 all 2007 Red List updates on BirdLife International's web site http://www.birdlife.org/action/science/species/global_species_programme/whats_new.html

-Support Christmas Bird Counts at Tikal 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.

Publications with participation of the PROEVAL RAXMU Bird Monitoring Program

Eisermann, K. & C. Avendaño (2007) Lista comentada de las aves de Guatemala - Annotated checklist of the birds of Guatemala. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain.

Eisermann, K. & K. Omland (2007) Coloration anomaly of a male Collared Trogon (Trogon collaris). Acta Zoológica Mexicana (n.s.) 23(2): 197-200.

Eisermann, K., A. Burge & G. López (2007) Nesting records of Horned Guan (Oreophasis derbianus) on Atitlán volcano, Guatemala. Bulletin of the IUCN / BIRDLIFE / WPA Cracid Specialist Group 23: 13-24.

Eisermann, K. & C. Avendaño (2006) Diversidad de aves en Guatemala, con una lista bibliográfica. Pp. 525-623 In: E. Cano (ed.) Biodiversidad de Guatemala, Vol. 1. Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala.

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.

Eisermann, K. & D. M. Brooks (2006) Unusual and noteworthy nesting records for Guatemala. Cotinga 26: 48-51.

Grijalva, B. & K. Eisermann (2006) Observación de un inmaduro de Morphnus guianensis en Tikal, Petén, Guatemala. Pato-Poc 3: 26-29.

Heinrichs, N., K. Eisermann & C. Avendaño (2006) Conteo de aves rapaces migratorias en la vertiente pacífica de Guatemala en octubre y noviembre 2005. Pato-Poc 3: 10-17.

Eisermann, K. (2005) An observation of foliage-bathing by an Orange-breasted Falcon (Falco deiroleucus) in Tikal, Guatemala. Wilson Bulletin 117: 415-418.

Eisermann, K. & U. Schulz (2005) Birds of a high-altitude cloud forest in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. Revista de Biología Tropical 53: 577-594.

Eisermann, K. (2005) Noteworthy bird observations in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 125: 3-11.

Eisermann, K. & C. Avendaño (2004) American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos in interior Guatemala. Cotinga 22: 98-99.

Eisermann, K. & U. Schulz (2002) Ermittlung von Vogel-Zielarten für ein Regenwaldschutzprojekt. (Bird target species for a rain forest conservation project.) Beiträge für Forstwirtschaft und Landschaftsökologie 36: 14-17.

Schulz, U. & K. Eisermann (2001) Significant Resplendent Quetzal Pharomachrus mocinno population found in an unprotected forest in Guatemala. Cotinga 15: 4.

Schulz, U. & K. Eisermann (2001) Kolibri-Beobachtungen in einer Nebelwaldregion Guatemalas. (Hummingbird observations in a cloud forest of Guatemala). Gefiederte Welt 125: 340-342.

Eisermann, K. (1999) Avifaunistisch-ökologische Untersuchungen in einer Nebelwaldregion Guatemalas als Grundlage für die Entwicklung eines Biomonitoringprogramms. Thesis, Univ. of Applied Sciences Eberswalde, Germany.


Reportes de registros de aves en la revista North American Birds:

Jones, H. L. & O. Komar (2007) The spring migration, March through May 2007: Central America. North American Birds 61: 521-525.

Jones, H. L. & O. Komar (2007) The winter season, December 2006 through February 2007: Central America. North American Birds 61: 340-344.

Jones, H. L. & O. Komar (2007) The fall migration, August through November 2006: Central America. North American Birds 61: 155-159.

Jones, H. L. & O. Komar (2007) The nesting season, June through July 2006: Central America. North American Birds 60: 587-588.

Jones, H. L. & O. Komar (2006) The spring migration, March through May 2006: Central America. North American Birds 60: 451-455.

Jones, H. L. & O. Komar (2006) The winter season, December 2006 through February 2006: Central America. North American Birds 60: 296-299.

Jones, H. L. & O. Komar (2006) The fall migration, August through November 2005: Central America. North American Birds 60: 152-156.

Jones, H. L. & O. Komar (2006) The nesting season, June through July 2005: Central America. North American Birds 59: 662-664.

Jones, H. L. (2005) The spring migration, March through May 2005: Central America. North American Birds 59: 506-510.

Jones, H. L. (2005) The winter season, December 2004 through February 2005: Central America. North American Birds 59: 337-340.

Jones, H. L. (2005) The fall migration, August through November 2004: Central America. North American Birds 59: 162-165.

Jones, L. (2004) The nesting season, June through July 2004: Central America. North American Birds 58: 611-612.

Jones, L. (2004) The spring migration, March through May 2004: Central America. North American Birds 58: 446-448.

Program Director

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

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