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 Reports by CountryOn behalf of our group Eco-Huellas (Ecological footprints), we would like to say Thanks to you for the beautiful present you gave to us. It is very important for us that so important people who live in the other tip of America know us and look for us. Heartiest congratulations to our friend and colleague, Ricardo Matus, another hard-working and prominent biologist in a long list of successful BEX recipients. My name is Raúl Rojas Llanos, and I coordinate the Bi-national Project for the Conservation of the Tucumán Amazon (Amazona Tucumana) in Bolivia, or “Loro Alisero” in Spanish. In 2008 we benefited from the support provided by Birders’ Exchange by receiving bird guides, a telescope and backpacks, which were a huge help to our environmental BEX has supported the ornithological work at the Omora Park since 2000, with the donation of equipment that aided in the creation of Chile’s longest continuous bird monitoring program. Now the Omora Subantarctic Bird Observatory is also a part of one of three long-term socio-ecological research sites in Chile and a major part of the Carlos Raúl Bonilla Ruz is a Mexican biologist with a Master’s degree in animal biology, and is a researcher from CIIDIR-Oaxaca, of the National Polytechnic Institute. He has worked for 28 years principally in the Mexican state of Oaxaca in biodiversity and conservation of wildlife issues. Results of his studies have been published in scientific Conservación, Investigación y Servicios ambientales AC (CISA AC), an NGO works in the northwest of Mexico, and has continued its work with birds since our donation from Birders Exchange in 2007. We have continued our banding studies with the institute for bird populations looking for migratory birds. We have also been working with environmental education I’m glad to know about the longevity of BEX, you really helped ornithology in the Neotropics A LOT. Please, take a look in our lab’s webpage: www.ib.usp.br/~lfsilveira where you can find useful information and papers which were published with the help of Birders’ Exchange. - - Luís Fábio Silveira My name is Juliana, I’m a Brazilian ornithologist and BEX gave me a binoculars and a backpack as a donation in 2007. I used those items in every field survey of my master degree; the binoculars are extremely good and are fundamental to me. Thank you to Birders’ Exchange for this generous donation. Among the activities that we have been working are Environmental Education Activities in Loja Ecuador with Fundacion Socio Cultural Don Bosco are: Chestnut Bellied Hummingbird, Niceforo’s Wren and Mountain Grackle The Chestnut Bellied Hummingbird inhabits promontane forests occurring principally between 2400 and 1800 m. Evidence that the Amazilia castaneiventris “should” not be rare due to a specialized diet and the most frequently used, “ Yatago” Tricanthera gigantea ( Pic) are widely distributed in the A. castaneiventris range. It is likely that flowering |
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