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Western Hemispheric

Migratory Species Initiative

WHMSI

 

WHMSI is building country capacity to conserve and manage migratory wildlife.  It improves hemispheric communication on conservation issues of common interest, provides training in priority areas, strengthens the exchange of information needed for informed decision-making, and provides a forum to address emerging issues such as new threats to migratory species, or the connections between wildlife disease and human diseases. 

 

Promoting Caribbean Wetland Conservation: Training

Education,and Conservation

CARIBBEAN WATERBIRD CENSUS (CWC) TRAINING WORKSHOP

February 22-25 of 2010

Agenda

 

SCSCB is working towards establishing the Caribbean Waterbird Census (CWC), a regionwide waterbird and wetland monitoring program2. The overall goal of the program is to increase support for waterbird and wetland conservation in the insular Caribbean by promoting monitoring as a means to improve sciencebased conservation planning and adaptive management of birds.

The objectives of the CWC are to: Promote inventories, surveys and censuses of waterbirds and their habitats in all Caribbean Countries. Encourage broadbased participation in waterbird counts including NGOs, governmental agencies, institutions, communities and volunteers. Ensure that as many internationally and nationally important wetland sites as possible are conserved and monitored. Increase awareness of conservation issues related to wetlands and waterbirds and what can be done to address these issues.

Twentytwo participants from 16 Caribbean islands took part in the SCSCB’s fourday CWC Training Workshop in Negril, Jamaica 22 25 February. The purpose of the workshop was to provide persons from across the Caribbean with equipment, materials, training and skills in waterbird and wetland monitoring protocols so that they can design and implement their own monitoring program (or improve/expand programs that are in place), participate in CWC annual counts, train and mentor others, and form the basis of a regional waterbird monitoring network. Participants were prospective national and site coordinators for the CWC. They included executive directors of NGOs in charge of protected areas, ornithologists, and conservation biologists employed to governments and NGOs, protected area managers and volunteers, all of whom share a common interest in learning monitoring methodologies to more effectively conserve and manage migrant and resident waterbirds and their habitats.

Negril, Jamaica, February 22-25 of 2010.

Main Report of the Workshop

 

Speaker

Presentations File

SCSCB

Introduction to SCSCB, Caribbean Birdwatch program and the workshop

SCSCB

What is monitoring? Why monitor birds?

SCSCB eBird: Levels AC Monitoring, What these data show and how it can be used for conservation planning and management
SCSCB

Introduction to Caribbean Waterbird Census (CWC): Goals, objectives, proposed structure, why and how to get involved, outline of steps to implement program.

SCSCB

Choosing your site, asking questions, setting your objectives, site reconnaissance.

SCSCB

General considerations in designing your monitoring program: challenges of counting waterbirds (bias and detectability)

SCSCB

Levels of monitoring and CWC protocols: Species inventories, point counts and area searches

SCSCB

Bird Identification 101

SCSCB

Waterbirds of the Caribbean

SCSCB

Describing your site, habitat surveys and IBA monitoring

SCSCB

Examining the data: Simple approaches to data analysis

SCSCB

IABIN/WHMSI and Caribbean activities

SCSCB

Ramsar in the Caribbean

SCSCB

Regional cooperation a MUST for the conservation of Caribbean birds: the SPAW protocol framework

SCSCB

Distribution of migratory waterfowl in Latin America and the Caribbean: An analysis of survey data and band recoveries

SCSCB

What can you learn from monitoring data? Sample analyses from ongoing waterbird monitoring in St. Croix

SCSCB

What can you learn from monitoring data? Analyses from WIWD monitoring data from Antigua and Barbuda 20032009

SCSCB

Avian Knowledge Network (AKN)

SCSCB

How to prepare reports and communicate your results to decision makers

SCSCB

Working with volunteers: opportunities and challenges

SCSCB

Training Observers for the CWC

SCSCB

Funding opportunities and how to write a grant proposal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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