International
Internships
The Klamath Bird Observatory embraces Partners In Flight
recommendations for developing partnerships across the Americas. In
the past 5 years, KBO has sponsored student interns from Argentina,
Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, and the
United Kingdom. Our interns are trained in standardized bird monitoring
methods in a comprehensive curriculum that is not readily available
to them in their homelands. This international exchange of information
and training plants the seeds for bird monitoring, research, and conservation
efforts in many lands. This program also provides an enriching experience
for everyone involved, as friendships are made and professional bonds
established. The Klamath Bird Observatory is able to create these valuable
opportunities through our partnership with the US Forest Service Redwood
Sciences Laboratory and Southern Oregon University International Programs
Department.
To apply for an international internship
at Tortuguero click
here. To apply for a KBO internship,
click here
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Neotropics
Training Workshops
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Orangequit - a Jamaican endemic
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Klamath Bird Observatory
biologists, with support from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation,
the Environmental Foundation of Jamaica, and the Windsor Research
Centre (WRC), presented a bird-banding workshop for Jamaicans
January 5-23, 2004. Workshop participants included members of
the Jamaican Department of Forestry, the National Environment
Protection Agency, students from the University of the West Indies
and the West Indies College, and staff of the Windsor Research
Centre.
Biologists Bob Frey and Keith
Larson designed the course curriculum and provided course instruction.
With over 20 years combined experience banding birds around world,
the instructors have trained over 100 volunteers, interns, and
technicians and are both certified North American Banding Council
(NABC) trainers. Two WRC staff members with previous banding workshop
experience served as teaching assistants throughout the workshop.
The workshop consisted of daily mist netting and banding, demonstrations,
lectures, and quizzes. Topics covered included mist net care and
use, net extraction, bird handling, biometrics, molt patterns,
aging and sexing techniques, data recording and management, and
census techniques.
Methods for instruction and
operation of bird monitoring stations followed guidelines established
and recommended by the PIF Monitoring Working Group, the North
American bird banding offices, and the NABC. The goal of this
training workshop was to build the capacity for self-sustained
training of Jamaicans and bird monitoring by Jamaicans within
local conservation and land management communities. This effort
exemplifies our dedication to provide training and support for
bird monitoring and research in the Neotropics and to the spirit
of Partners In Flight. We look forward to continuing such efforts
in the Neotropics as part of our International Program.
For more information about
the organizations mentioned here, visit these websites:
North
American Banding Council
Partners In Flight
Windsor Research Centre
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mist-netting training workshop
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Swainson's Warbler, a migrant
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Tortuguero
Integrated Bird Monitoring Program
Since 1994, we have conducted research
at Tortuguero, Costa Rica, in association with the Caribbean Conservation
Corporation and other cooperators. Our primary objective is to help
establish a long-term monitoring site for the study of neotropical migrant
and resident landbirds with the collaboration of Costa Ricans to further
the knowledge and understanding of Costa Rican birds. This is the only
operation, to our knowledge, that is regularly monitoring the landbirds
of the country on a consistent basis. The Program has provided monitoring
method training opportunities for over 100 students and biologists from
throughout the Americas, some of whom have gone on to establish over
20 bird monitoring efforts at various other sites in the Caribbean and
Mesoamerica. The program also presents a working model for a bird monitoring
network in the Neotropics, integrating multiple methods (e.g., banding,
area search surveys, and migration counts) across a network of study
sites in a variety of habitats.
The Program is truly an international
partnership made possible through the cooperative efforts of the Klamath
Bird Observatory, US
Forest Service Redwood Sciences Laboratory, Caribbean
Conservation Corporation, PRBO
Conservation Science, Universidad
de Costa Rica, Parques
Nacional de Costa Rica, Costa
Rica Expeditions, and others. For more information about this program
and how to participate, visit the US
Forest Service Redwood Sciences Laboratory.
Help us support this valuable program.
Participate in the Tortuguero Bird-A-Thon!
Read
a biologist's first hand account of working at Tortuguero
Click
here for Tortuguero Internships
Click
here to apply for KBO Internships
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