| Patuxent Science Meeting 2006 Poster Abstract |
| | Establishing a Mexican Breeding Bird Survey Program |
| | Pardieck KL, Berlanga HA, Downes CM, Peterjohn BG, Ziolkowski DJ, Collins B |
| | The North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) forms the foundation of non-game, land bird |
| | conservation in the U.S. and Canada, providing large-scale, long-term population data for > 400 |
| | species. Similar population trend data are not available for most Mexican breeding bird |
| | species, severely limiting Mexico's bird conservation planning efforts. A three-year BBS pilot |
| | project in northern Mexico indicated expansion of the survey into Mexico was technically |
| | feasible with 26, 28 and 34 routes sampled in 1993, 1994 and 1995, respectively. A total of 218 |
| | species was detected, including 29 of continental importance in the Southwest Avifaunal Biome |
| | (Rich et al. 2004). However resources were insufficient at the time to implement and sustain |
| | an operational Mexican BBS program. The Mexican avian conservation community has grown |
| | substantially in the last decade as has their need for better trend assessment of breeding bird |
| | populations. Dunn et al. (2005) estimate that a Mexican BBS program could provide adequate |
| | population trend estimates for > 80 species of northern Mexican birds. Thus Mexico's National |
| | Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity has partnered with the U.S. Geological |
| | Survey and Canadian Wildlife Survey to implement a Mexican Breeding Bird Survey program by |
| | 2010. |
| | Friday, September 22, 2006 |