In November 2002, the Park Flight Program held its second grantee workshop at the Pico Bonito Lodge, near La Ceiba, Honduras. This workshop brought together 37 participants including Park Flight grantees from national parks and other protected areas in the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Panama, instructors from Canada, the U.S. and Mesoamerica, and other Park Flight partners to learn about bird monitoring efforts and discuss the creation of a network of bird monitoring programs throughout the Americas. This workshop was a follow-up to the first workshop on environmental education techniques held at Grand Canyon National Park in November 2001.
The workshop presentations were focused on several general areas: descriptions of the projects undertaken by Park Flight grantees, descriptions of other bird monitoring projects in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, and ideas on how to integrate bird monitoring programs into resource management and environmental education activities.
PRESENTATIONS
Grantee Projects
Cerro San Gil Reserve, Guatemala
Point Reyes National Seashore, California
Ajusco Park, Mexico
New Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail
Panama Bay, Panama
New Mexico National Parks
Cleveland Metro Parks, Ohio
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee & North Carolina
Other National and International Monitoring Programs
Monitoring Birds in Mexico, Fernando Villasenor Gomez
Bird Monitoring Programs, C.J. Ralph
National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring Program, Bryan Milstead
Integrated Approach to Bird Monitoring, Geoffrey R. Geupel
Conservation Through Partnerships in Monitoring and Research, Jon McCraken
The MoSI (Monitoreo de Sobrevivencia Invernal) Program, David DeSante
Integrating Monitoring Information Into Useful Resource Management Tools
Practical Applications of Monitoring Protocols in Mexico, Fernando Villasenor Gomez
NPS Inventory & Monitoring Program -- The Coastal Barrier Network, Bryan Milstead
Integrating Bird Monitoring in Resource Management, C.J. Ralph
Effective Monitoring in California, Geoffrey R. Guepel
Monitoring, Modeling and Management: Examples of Avian Management Based on Vital Rates Using Data from MAPS, David DeSante
Integrating Monitoring with Education and Outreach Activities
Interpretation at Mist-netting Stations, Melissa Pitkin
Citizen Scientists at Great Smoky Mountains NP, Paul Super
Citizen Science at Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Ron Rohrbaugh
