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A. Title of Proposed Project

MONITORING LAND BIRDS IN CARIBBEAN PROTECTED AREAS FOR

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT AND PUBLIC EDUCATION

B. Cover letter signed by the authorized representative of the firm.

Please see attached cover letter.

C. Contact Information of the Firm

• Name of Firm: Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds

• Name of Contact Person(s): Ann Sutton

• Address: Marshall’s Pen, PO Box 58, Mandeville

• Country: Jamaica

• Telephone: Home Office: 876 904 5454 Mobile: 876 877 7335

• Fax: None

• Email: asutton@cwjamaica.com

• Website: scscb.org

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E. Project Summary: An abstract of the proposal (200 words or less) both in English and

Spanish.

The SCSCB is proposing the project “Monitoring Landbirds in Caribbean Protected Areas for

Adaptive Management and Public Education” to take place in the insular Caribbean plus

Trinidad and Tobago.

SCSCB’s Caribbean monitoring partnership will implement this project, which will promote

landbird monitoring as a means to improve conservation and management of biodiversity

(especially migratory birds) and engage citizens in monitoring, thereby increasing awareness.

The SCSCB will hold a workshop to promote terrestrial bird monitoring in protected areas

and buffer zones and their application to adaptive management and environmental

education. Based on discussion at the workshop, SCSCB will develop a strategy to increase

capacity for bird and habitat monitoring using citizen scientists.

Target audiences will include protected area managers, educators, field biologists, volunteers,

funding agencies and international organizations. Products will include second editions of

Caribbean Birdwatch training manuals, including development of programmes for

monitoring landbirds and supporting activities (such as fund raising, public education and

the use of volunteers) to supplement existing materials. A strategy for a Caribbean approach

to applying citizen science to bird monitoring will be developed. Efforts will be made to

promote distance learning techniques and on-line access to materials using the latest

technology.

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F. Project description (Maximum sixteen pages) - A description of the proposed

outcome (product) of the project.

Rationale:

The Caribbean region, formed by an archipelago of more than 7,000 islands and islets,

occupies the fifth position in the list of the world’s 25 biodiversity hotspots (Myers et al. 2000).

This region is only surpassed in number of species and endemism by the tropical regions of the

Andes, Sundaland, Madagascar and Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. Three percent of endemic

vertebrates world-wide are of Caribbean origin, given that 51% of the region’s 1,518 vertebrate

species are endemic. Birds, with 668 reported species, form the largest group of vertebrates. Of

these, 148 species (22%) are endemic to the region, with 105 species being restricted to single

islands.

The diverse Caribbean avifauna includes more than 120 migratory species that breed in

North America, but use insular habitats as wintering or stopover sites. Species showing

population declines in North America like the Cape May Warbler (Dendroica tigrina), Northern

Parula (Parula americana), Black-throated Blue Warbler (Dendroica caerulescens), Palm Warbler

(Dendroica palmarum) and Prairie Warbler (Dendroica discolor) are common migrants in the

Caribbean. In addition, the region provides the only known wintering grounds for the globally

endangered Kirtland’s Warbler (Dendroica kirtlandii) and Bicknell’s Thrush (Catharus bicknelli), as

well as to the possibly extinct Bachman’s Warbler (Vermivora bachmanii). Like landbirds, a high

number of aquatic bird species, seabirds and shorebirds are found in Caribbean wetlands and

coastal habitats during their non-breeding seasons. Some of these species spend as much as

eight months of the year in the region.

In spite of the critical importance of Caribbean ecosystems for resident and migratory

bird species, only 11.3% of the region’s primary vegetation remains (29,840 km2 of 263,500 km2).

This dramatic habitat loss has been mainly related to activities of a highly dense human

population, estimated in 37.5 million, with an annual growth rate of approximately 2.5%.

Natural forests are expected to continue shrinking as more land is used for agriculture, cattle

raising, and urban development. In addition to these threats, Caribbean avifauna is affected by

competition with invasive species, illegal hunting and trade, as well as the regular passage of

hurricanes and tropical storms that destroy prey resources, and nesting, roosting and foraging

sites. The unsustainable use of Caribbean natural resources and climate effects, which have

already threatened with extinction 56 resident species, also represent a challenge for the

conservation of Neotropical migrants on their wintering grounds.

Management programmes for the protection and restoration of habitats in the Caribbean

are of utmost importance given the diminishing availability of primary habitat. While

monitoring the number of species and individuals using resources can be used to assess the

outcomes of these programmes, it can also provide an opportunity to implement adaptive

management practices and increase awareness of the importance of birds and their habitats.

Being highly diverse, easy to detect and better known than other vertebrate groups, bird species

are the best available indicators of overall habitat quality.

Most Caribbean protected areas and their buffer zones include human settlements and

many bird species move between them. Thus the relationship between protected areas and

urban areas is much closer in small islands than in the US. Meanwhile, the number of trained

ornithologists in the protected areas and surrounding areas is small and the capacity to pay

them very limited. Hence citizen science has a great potential to help protected areas gather

data for adaptive management, meanwhile building awareness and commitment to bird

conservation. Several of SCSCB’s programmes have identified this potential (including

International Migratory Bird Day and Caribbean Endemic Bird Festival celebrations which

involve communities in bird-related activities and the development of bird identification cards

for individual islands (including Jamaica, Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Cayman Islands, Grenada and

St. Vincent and the Grenadines) have begun to address this gap. The implementation of a

programe based on Cornell Laboratory Of Ornithology’s “Celebrate Urban Birds” programme

has been tested in Cuba and shown to be feasible. SCSCB now needs to explore how it could be

applied to the rest of the Caribbean in support of bird conservation and to develop a funding

proposal to implement it.

Estimating population trends (and sizes) is a basic step toward the development of

management and conservation strategies, but despite the region’s critical importance for avian

biodiversity, there are currently no region-wide monitoring programmes that can provide data

on the status and trends of migratory species or the extent to which conservation efforts in the

region meet their needs. Indeed, very few data exist on species presence or number of

individuals, mainly coming from scattered short-term projects. SCSCB has begun to develop a

region-wide programme to assess the gaps in protection, evaluate strategies for addressing

threats, improving implementation of protected areas, and understanding migration patterns

and population trends related to ongoing and expected impacts of climate change. In 2009

SCSCB held a workshop on all-bird monitoring and produced a draft manual – “Caribbean

Birdwatch – how to design and implement a bird monitoring programme in the Caribbean.” In

2010 SCSCB built on the previous workshop by establishing the Caribbean Waterbird Census - a

coordinated effort to design and implement a common protocol for monitoring waterfowl,

shorebirds and seabirds throughout the region, train personnel in field monitoring techniques,

and provide funding to implement the programme in the long-term. The current proposal seeks

to build out the landbird monitoring aspects of Caribbbean Birdwatch and to explore ways to

broaden its scope by involving citizen scientists.

The Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds (SCSCB) is the leading

non-governmental organization dedicated to the protection of the region’s bird species and

their habitats through research, education, conservation action and capacity building (Sorenson

2008). SCSCB has c.300 conservationists and researchers among its membership, including

representatives of most of the region’s territories and states, and of all NGOs and government

agencies working with avian conservation in the islands. The broad expertise of its members

has provided SCSCB the opportunity to examine the major challenges for the protection of

Caribbean bird species, particularly through the efforts of the Monitoring and Seabirds,

Waterbirds and Wetlands Education working groups. As a result, reports prepared by these

working groups have identified the need to develop the capacity in the region for monitoring

the status of birds and their habitats (see scscb.org). In doing so the following main three main

issues have been identified:

� The need for monitoring is not widely recognized among government agencies,

protected area managers and project managers,

� When agencies recognize the need for monitoring, there are many problems that inhibit

the development of effective monitoring programmes, including:

� Lack of skills and confidence to conceive monitoring programmes that address

the information gaps in a cost effective way. Very often this means that

monitoring is not implemented because it is expected to be too difficult to

develop and too costly and time-consuming to implement and human resources

are lacking.

� Monitoring programmes are sometimes developed that do not provide answers

to the questions that face natural resource managers.

� Monitoring programmes are not always statistically robust.

� The results of monitoring programmes are often not presented to decision-

makers in a format that they can use.

� There is a shortage of people with the relevant skills to develop and implement

bird monitoring programmes

� There is a shortage of funds to implement monitoring, particularly for long-term

programmes.

� There is no regional repository for monitoring data, and thus the cumulative

usefulness of individual monitoring programmes is missed.

� There are several local, regional and international monitoring programmes in the

region but there is little coordination and so opportunities for synergies are being

lost.

� Lack of appreciation of the scientific and educational value of involving citizen

scientists in monitoring.

As mentioned above, this project seeks to build on the work SCSCB has already done to

address these issues in the two previous WHMSI workshops (bird monitoring in general

2009, and establishing the Caribbean Waterbird Census 2010).

Project Goals and Objectives:

Goal:

The proposed project will improve management of protected areas and their buffer

zones and increase public support for conservation by building capacity in the Caribbean region

to monitor migratory landbird populations in protected areas (actual and proposed), buffer

zones and adjacent areas, thereby supporting adaptive management programmes and

increasing public involvement.

This goal will be implemented through a partnership with international and local non-

governmental organizations to ensure that conservation and management of migratory birds in

the Caribbean region meet their needs and is based on the best available scientific information.

The partnership includes Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, the National Aviary, Royal Society

for the Protection of Birds, BirdLife International and USDA International Institute of Tropical

Forestry, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, which all have ongoing or proposed

monitoring programmes or related activities in various islands. SCSCB along with these

organizations will continue to expand a coordinated regional programme intended to promote

monitoring as a means to provide relevant information to decision-makers and protected area

managers and educate the public.

Objectives:

• Promote landbird monitoring as a management, conservation and public education tool

in protected areas and buffer zones.

• Host a regional workshop to train protected area managers and staff to design and

implement bird and habitat monitoring in terrestrial protected areas

• Develop a framework for the development of a project for citizen science in support of

bird monitoring in the Caribbean.

Project Activities and Methodologies:

Project implementation will consist of the following:

Training workshop:

The outline of the workshop will be as follows:

Day 1: Adaptive management and the importance of monitoring, how to design monitoring

programmes, other administrative and capacity issues related to capacity development,

overview of area search and point count monitoring protocols.

Day 2: Landbird and habitat monitoring – a.m. Field trip to practice area search count method.

p.m. data analysis and interpretation.

Day 3: Landbird and habitat monitoring – a.m. Field trip to practice point counts and habitat

monitoring, p.m. data analysis and interpretation.

Day 4: a.m. Banding demonstrationand discussion of pros and cons of running a banding

program, p.m. Data analysis and report writing clinic

Day 5: Citizen science for bird monitoring and public education options - developing a strategy

for adapting backyard/urban birding programmes for the Caribbean – all day.

The outputs of the workshop are expected to include:

• At least 10 trained persons capable of training and mentoring others in their own and in

neighboring countries in a wide variety of skills related to all stages of bird monitoring.

• Enhanced version of Caribbean Birdwatch focused on landbird monitoring.

• Strategy for developing a project to implement backyard/urban birding as a means to

support adaptive management of protected area and buffer zones and increase public

awareness and appreciation of the importance of birds and their habitats.

4. Time frame / work plan

ACTIVITY

HEADING

OUTPUTS INDICATORS

OF SUCCESS

RESPONSIBLE

PERSON

COMPLETION

DATE

Development of

materials

Landbird monitoring

protocol revised and

updated

1 manual

produced

Lisa

Sorenson/Ann

Sutton

February 2011

Workshop Workshop held Total no of

participants

Representation

of special

interest groups

(decision-

makers,

protected area

managers,

scientists,

volunteers,

educators)

Ann Sutton/

Lisa

Sorenson/ Jeff

Gerbracht/

John

Alexander

February 2011

Workshop

report

produced

Ann Sutton/

Lisa Sorenson

March 2011

Strategy

development

Strategy developed for

citizen science in

landbird monitoring in

the Caribbean

Strategy

produced

Lisa

Sorenson/Ann

Sutton/Jeff

Gerbracht

March 2011

List of documents to be developed:

• Second edition of Landbird Monitoring Manual chapters of Caribbean Monitoring

Training Manual

• Strategy for using citizen science to support landbird monitoring in protected areas and

adjacent areas and to promote awareness and appreciation of birds and their habitats

• Report on training workshop

• Final report on project.

5. Team Composition and Task Assignment: Indicate the structure and composition of

your team. List the name of staff, firm, area of expertise, position assigned, and task

assigned.

Position: Team Leads:

Name: Ann Sutton

Organisation: Secretary SCSCB, Co-chair Monitoring Working Group. Seabirds Working

Group

Area of expertise: Bird monitoring, conservation education, protected area management

Task assigned: Leads project implementation, strategy development, assists with general

and specific aspects of training

Name: Lisa Sorenson

Organisation: Vice-president SCSCB, Chair West Indian Whistling Duck Working Group

Area of expertise: Bird research, waterfowl, wetlands education, ecology and

conservation, climate change impacts on birds and habitats

Task assigned: Guides project design and implementation, assists with training workshop

Position: Assistant Project Advisor

Name: Jeff Gerbracht

Organisation: Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology

Area of expertise: eBird, citizen science programs

Task assigned: Guides project design and implementation, assists with training workshop

The following individuals and organizations are part of our monitoring coalition and have

also agreed to assist with project design, implementation and training:

• Frank Rivera, US Fish and Wildlife Service

• John Alexander, Klamath Bird Observatory

• Steve Latta, The National Aviary

• Adrianne Tossas, University of Puerto Rico, Aguadilla

• Joe Wunderle, Institute of Tropical Forestry

• David Wege, BirdLife International

• James Millet, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

• Peter Marra, Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center

We are also hoping to get support from The Nature Conservancy, Caribbean Programme.

6. CVs of Proposed Staff:

CVs of major team members Ann Sutton, Lisa Sorenson and Jeff Gerbracht are

attached. Note that all these individuals have wide experience of establishing and running

monitoring programmes, training, environmental education and applied conservation.

7. Staffing Schedule:

SCSCB is a voluntary organization, which depends on project funds to implement

its programmes. As such it does not have any staff at present, so project staff would be

contractors and volunteers, as well as employees of our partner organizations.

8. Work Schedule:

Months N° Activity

1

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

A S O N D J F M

A STRATEGY and MATERIALS

DEVELOPMENT

1 Finalize work plan

4 Hold online consultations with

experts

5 Produce manuals

B TRAINING WORKSHOP

1 Invite participants

2 Plan venue, accommodation,

transportation

3 Hold workshop

4

Develop strategy for citizen

science in Caribbean landbird

monitoring

4 Prepare workshop report

C SUBMIT FINAL REPORT

Final report submitted

D

MAINTENANCE OF MONITORING

NETWORK/PARTNERSHIP,

WEBSITE AND DATABASE

Communications programme

implemented

9. Relevant literature cited as footnotes

Bradley, P. 2008. Seabirds of the West Indies – Island Accounts. University Press of Florida.

Myers, N., Mittermeier, R. A., C. G. Mittermeier, G. A. B. da Fonseca, and J. Kent. 2000.

Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities. Nature 403:853-858.

Sorenson, L. 2008. SCSCB Strategic plan 2008-2012. SCSCB, Washington.

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G. Summary of Costs

HEADING ITEM DESCRIPTION

UNIT

COST # UNITS

TOTAL COST

WHSMI

TOTAL COST

COUNTERPART

WORKSHOP

Professional fees Workshop organization 400 10 2000 2000

Workshop materials

development 400 10 2000 5000

Workshop delivery 400 10 2000 2000

Airfares

International participants 600 10 6000 6000

Presenters 600 3 1800 500

Accommodation

and meals

international

participants

10 persons x 5 days @

$150/day 150 50 5000 2500

Accommodation

and meals for

presenters

4 persons x 7 days @

$150/day 150 28 3150 1050

Meals for local

participants 20 persons 15 100 1500 0

Transportation

for field trips 0 0 300 0

Photocopying

and production 0 0 250 0

MATERIALS AND

SUPPLIES

Binoculars 10 pairs @$200 each 200 10 1000 1000

Range finders 10 @ $150 each 10 150 1500

GPS units 10 @ $100 each 10 100 1000

Field guides &

other bird ID

materials 500

Use of

equipment

Banding, playback and

telescopes 1000

MISCELLANEOUS Miscellaneous 0 0 0 4000

DIRECT

ADMINISTRATIVE

OVERHEADS

Administrative

overheads 1500 0 1000 2000

TOTAL 26000 29000

Appendix 1. This is a list of Nearctic-Neotropical migrants that occur regularly in the Caribbean. The list

is derived from Rappole (1995, pp. 173-182) and includes those species for which all or part of the

population breeds north of the Tropic of Cancer and winters south of that line. Of the 341 migrants listed

by Rappole (1995), 218 or 64% occur in the Caribbean. English and scientific names follow the taxonomy

of the American Ornithologists' Union's Checklist of North American Birds, seventh edition (1998) and

supplement 42 (2000).

Common Name Scientific Name

Podicipediformes

Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps

Pelecaniformes

Brown Pelican Pelecanus

occidentalis

Neotropic

Cormorant

Phalacrocorax

brasilianus

Double-crested

Cormorant

Phalacrocorax

auritus

Anhinga Anhinga anhinga

Ciconiiformes

American Bittern Botaurus

lentiginosus

Least Bittern Ixobrychus exilis

Great Blue Heron Ardea Herodias

Great Egret Ardea alba

Snowy Egret Egretta thula

Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea

Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor

Reddish Egret Egretta rufescens

Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis

Green Heron Butorides virescens

Black-crowned

Night-Heron

Nycticorax

nycticorax

Yellow-crowned

Night-Heron

Nyctanassa violacea

White Ibis Eudocimus albus

Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus

Roseate Spoonbill Ajaia ajaja

Common Name Scientific Name

Wood Stork Mycteria americana

Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura

Anseriformes

Fulvous

Whistling-Duck

Dendrocygna bicolor

Snow Goose Chen caerulescens

Wood Duck Aix sponsa

Gadwall Anas strepera

American Wigeon Anas americana

Mallard Anas platyrhynchos

Blue-winged Teal Anas discors

Northern Shoveler Anas clypeata

Northern Pintail Anas acuta

Green-winged

Teal

Anas crecca

Canvasback Aythya valisineria

Redhead Aythya americana

Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis

Hooded

Merganser

Lophodytes

cucullatus

Red-breasted

Merganser

Mergus serrator

Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis

Falconiformes

Osprey Pandion haliaetus

Swallow-tailed

Kite

Elanoides forficatus

Northern Harrier Circus cyaneus

Sharp-shinned Accipiter striatus

Common Name Scientific Name

Hawk

Common Black-

Hawk

Buteogallus

anthracinus

Broad-winged

Hawk

Buteo platypterus

Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis

American Kestrel Falco sparverius

Merlin Falco columbarius

Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus

Gruiformes

Black Rail Laterallus

jamaicensis

King Rail Rallus elegans

Virginia Rail Rallus limicola

Sora Porzana carolina

Purple Gallinule Porphyrula

martinica

Common

Moorhen

Gallinula chloropus

American Coot Fulica americana

Sandhill Crane Grus canadensis

Charadriiformes

Black-bellied

Plover

Pluvialis squatarola

American Golden-

Plover

Pluvialis dominica

Snowy Plover Charadrius

alexandrinus

Wilson's Plover Charadrius wilsonia

Semipalmated

Plover

Charadrius

semipalmatus

Piping Plover Charadrius melodus

Killdeer Charadrius vociferus

American

Oystercatcher

Haematopus

palliatus

Black-necked Stilt Himantopus

mexicanus

American Avocet Recurvirostra

americana

Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca

Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes

Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria

Willet Catoptrophorus

semipalmatus

Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularia

Upland Sandpiper Bartramia

Common Name Scientific Name

longicauda

Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus

Hudsonian

Godwit

Limosa haemastica

Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres

Red Knot Calidris canutus

Sanderling Calidris alba

Semipalmated

Sandpiper

Calidris pusilla

Western

Sandpiper

Calidris mauri

Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla

White-rumped

Sandpiper

Calidris fuscicollis

Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii

Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos

Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus

Buff-breasted

Sandpiper

Tryngites

subruficollis

Short-billed

Dowitcher

Limnodromus

griseus

Long-billed

Dowitcher

Limnodromus

scolopaceus

Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago

Wilson's

Phalarope

Phalaropus tricolor

Red-necked

Phalarope

Phalaropus lobatus

Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicaria

Laughing Gull Larus atricilla

Bonaparte's Gull Larus Philadelphia

Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis

Gull-billed Tern Sterna nilotica

Caspian Tern Sterna caspia

Royal Tern Sterna maxima

Sandwich Tern Sterna sandvicensis

Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii

Common Tern Sterna hirundo

Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri

Least Tern Sterna antillarum

Sooty Tern Sterna fuscata

Black Tern Chlidonias niger

Black Skimmer Rynchops niger

Columbiformes

White-crowned

Pigeon

Columba

leucocephala

White-winged Zenaida asiatica

Common Name Scientific Name

Dove

Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura

Cuculiformes

Black-billed

Cuckoo

Coccyzus

erythropthalmus

Yellow-billed

Cuckoo

Coccyzus americanus

Mangrove Cuckoo Coccyzus minor

Strigiformes

Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia

Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus

Caprimulgiformes

Common

Nighthawk

Chordeiles minor

Chuck-will's-

widow

Caprimulgus

carolinensis

Apodiformes

Black Swift Cypseloides niger

Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica

Ruby-throated

Hummingbird

Archilochus colubris

Coraciiformes

Belted Kingfisher Ceryle alcyon

Piciformes

Yellow-bellied

Sapsucker

Sphyrapicus varius

Passeriformes

Western Wood-

Pewee

Contopus sordidulus

Eastern Wood-

Pewee

Contopus virens

Yellow-bellied

Flycatcher

Empidonax

flaviventris

Acadian

Flycatcher

Empidonax virescens

Alder Flycatcher Empidonax alnorum

Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii

Least Flycatcher Empidonax minimus

Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe

Common Name Scientific Name

Great Crested

Flycatcher

Myiarchus crinitus

Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus

melancholicus

Western Kingbird Tyrannus verticalis

Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus

Gray Kingbird Tyrannus

dominicensis

Scissor-tailed

Flycatcher

Tyrannus forficatus

White-eyed Vireo Vireo griseus

Yellow-throated

Vireo

Vireo flavifrons

Blue-headed Vireo Vireo solitarius

Philadelphia Vireo Vireo philadelphicus

Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus

Black-whiskered

Vireo

Vireo altiloquus

Caribbean Martin Progne dominicensis

Purple Martin Progne subis

Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor

Northern Rough-

winged Swallow

Stelgidopteryx

serripennis

Bank Swallow Riparia riparia

Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon

pyrrhonota

Cave Swallow Petrochelidon fulva

Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica

House Wren Troglodytes aedon

Ruby-crowned

Kinglet

Regulus calendula

Blue-gray

Gnatcatcher

Polioptila caerulea

Veery Catharus fuscescens

Gray-cheeked

Thrush

Catharus minimus

Bicknell's Thrush Catharus bicknelli

Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus

Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus

Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina

American Robin Turdus migratorius

Gray Catbird Dumetella

carolinensis

American Pipit Anthus rubescens

Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum

Blue-winged

Warbler

Vermivora pinus

Common Name Scientific Name

Golden-winged

Warbler

Vermivora

chrysoptera

Tennessee Warbler Vermivora peregrina

Orange-crowned

Warbler

Vermivora celata

Nashville Warbler Vermivora ruficapilla

Northern Parula Parula americana

Yellow Warbler Dendroica petechia

Chestnut-sided

Warbler

Dendroica

pensylvanica

Magnolia Warbler Dendroica magnolia

Cape May Warbler Dendroica tigrina

Black-throated

Blue Warbler

Dendroica

caerulescens

Yellow-rumped

Warbler

Dendroica coronata

Black-throated

Green Warbler

Dendroica virens

Blackburnian

Warbler

Dendroica fusca

Yellow-throated

Warbler

Dendroica dominica

Pine Warbler Dendroica pinus

Kirtland's Warbler Dendroica kirtlandii

Prairie Warbler Dendroica discolor

Palm Warbler Dendroica palmarum

Bay-breasted

Warbler

Dendroica castanea

Blackpoll Warbler Dendroica striata

Cerulean Warbler Dendroica cerulean

Black-and-white

Warbler

Mniotilta varia

American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla

Prothonotary

Warbler

Protonotaria citrea

Worm-eating

Warbler

Helmitheros

vermivorus

Swainson's

Warbler

Limnothlypis

swainsonii

Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapillus

Northern

Waterthrush

Seiurus

noveboracensis

Louisiana

Waterthrush

Seiurus motacilla

Kentucky Warbler Oporornis formosus

Connecticut

Warbler

Oporornis agilis

Mourning Warbler Oporornis

philadelphia

Common

Yellowthroat

Geothlypis trichas

Common Name Scientific Name

Hooded Warbler Wilsonia citrine

Wilson's Warbler Wilsonia pusilla

Canada Warbler Wilsonia canadensis

Summer Tanager Piranga rubra

Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea

Rufous-crowned

Sparrow

Aimophila ruficeps

Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerine

Savannah Sparrow Passerculus

sandwichensis

Grasshopper

Sparrow

Ammodramus

savannarum

Lincoln's Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii

White-crowned

Sparrow

Zonotrichia

leucophrys

Rose-breasted

Grosbeak

Pheucticus

ludovicianus

Blue Grosbeak Guiraca caerulea

Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea

Painted Bunting Passerina ciris

Dickcissel Spiza americana

Bobolink Dolichonyx

oryzivorus

Red-winged

Blackbird

Agelaius phoeniceus

Eastern

Meadowlark

Sturnella magna

Brown-headed

Cowbird

Molothrus ater

Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius

Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula

CURRICULUM VITAE (Summaries for team leaders)

CURRICULUM VITAE (Summary)

ANN M. HAYNES-SUTTON Ph.D.

GENERAL INFORMATION

PERMANENT ADDRESS: Marshall's Pen, P.O. Box 58, Mandeville, Jamaica W.I.

TELEPHONE NUMBER: Home: (876) 904-5454. Mobile: (876) 877 7335

E-MAIL: asutton@cwjamaica.com

DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: 7th November 1951, London, England.

AGE: 57

MARITAL STATUS: Widowed

NATIONALITY: British

EDUCATION

2008 Mangrove Restoration (5 days). Lewis Environmental Services Inc.

2003 Project Management (2 days) ESI/ George Washington University.

2003 Microsoft Project training course (2 days). New Horizons, Kingston Jamaica

1983-1995 Ph.D. in Zoology (Wildlife Management) at University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica.

Title "On the nesting ecology of seabirds at the Morant Cays (Jamaica), with special reference to nest

site selection, conservation and management".

1980-1981 Diploma in Graphic Art, (part-time), at the Jamaica School of Art, Kingston 5, Jamaica.

1970-1974 B.Sc. Honours in Zoology (2.2), at Dundee University, Dundee, Scotland. Subsidiary subjects: Physics,

Chemistry, Biology, and Psychology.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: CONSULTING

1987- present: Independent Environmental Consultant with special interest in conservation and ecology of

wildlife and wetlands; protected area design and management; ecotourism (including leading, organising

and providing accommodation for ornithological tours); and environmental education.

Assignments have included: 2009-10 Lead consultant on project to develop management plans for three fish sanctuaries in the Portland Bight Protected

Area, Jamaica. For Caribbean Coastal Area Management Foundation.

2009 Natural History Consultant for Buff Bay Agro-tourism project. For International Institute for Cooperation in

Agriculture.

2009: Joint lead consultant on Western Hemisphere Migratory Species Initiative Project “Increasing capacity

for Caribbean wetlands conservation: a training workshop for monitoring, education and

conservation” on behalf of the Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds/ 2008-9: Designed and coordinated Western Hemisphere Migratory Species Initiative Project “Long-term bird

monitoring in the Caribbean” on behalf of the Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds.

2007-9: Portland Bight Sustainable Wetland Project: Phase 1, for Caribbean Coastal Area Management

Foundation.

2006: Planning for development of a Watchable Wildlife Pond for the Royal Palm Reserve, Negril for Negril

Environmental Protection Trust

2003 Surveys of ducks in Jamaica for Ducks Unlimited and National Environment and Planning Agency

2002-5 Caribbean See Seabirds Project (including regional planning for waterbirds, seabirds surveys and

training, seabirds environmental education) for the Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean

Birds

2003-5 Lead consultant for Development of Biophysical Indicators for Monitoring the Portland Bight Protected

Area for Inter-American Development Bank/Global Environment Facility

2001-2 Environmental Consultant for South Coast Sustainable Development Project, focused on protected areas

planning and environmental impact assessments (Scott Wilson Assoc.)

2001 Assessment of community involvement in local sustainable development and local governance (for

Canadian International Development Agency).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: EMPLOYMENT

2007-2009: Lecturer at Northern Caribbean University. Taught Post-graduate course in “Principles and Practices

of Conservation.”

2003–2007: Director of Conservation - The Nature Conservancy in Jamaica. (Half time position). Developed and

supervised TNC’s conservation programmes in Jamaica, including Cockpit Country Parks in Peril

programme, Protected Area System Planning, Gap Analysis and Eco-regional Planning.

1981–1987: Acting Chief, Ecology Branch, Natural Resources Conservation Division.

Responsibilities included development and implementation of wildlife and terrestrial ecology policy;

wildlife law enforcement; wildlife project development, management and search for funding; public

education for wildlife conservation including organising programmes of talks, and slide shows; design

writing and production of, posters and leaflets; participation in, and facilitation of, research; monitoring

the status of critical wildlife populations; development planning; and environmental impact assessment.

BOOKS

Haynes-Sutton, A., Downer, A., & Sutton, R. 2009. A photographic guide to the Birds of Jamaica. Chistopher

Helm, London.

Haynes-Sutton, A. and Sorenson, L. 2009. Caribbean Birdwatch – How to design and monitor a bird monitoring

programme in the Caribbean. Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds, Boston.

Haynes-Sutton, A., Sorenson, L. & Keeley, M. 2001. Wondrous West Indian Wetlands - A resource book on

Caribbean wetlands for teachers and other educators. West Indian Whistling Duck Working Group of the

Society of Caribbean Ornithology.

SELECTED PAPERS AND REPORTS

Haynes-Sutton, A. 2009. Jamaica and Pedro and Morant Cays. In Bradley, P.E. & Norton, R.L. (eds.) An inventory

of breeding seabirds of the Caribbean. University Press of Florida. Gainsville. Pp 66-76.

Frost, M., Hayes, F. & Haynes-Sutton, A. 2009. Saint Vincent, the Grenadines and Grenada. An inventory of

breeding seabirds of the Caribbean. University Press of Florida. Gainsville. Pp 187-194.

MEMBERSHIP OF ORGANISATIONS AND COMMITTEES (2000 onwards)

2001 - present Secretary, Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds (also Co-chair of Seabirds

and Monitoring Sub-committees)

1990 – 2005 Regional Member of the Species Survival Commission, Seabird, Threatened Waterfowl Research

Group, IUCN (The World Conservation Union)

LISA G. SORENSON, PH.D. Department of Biology, 5 Cummington St., Boston University, Boston, MA 02215

(508) 655-1940 (office), (617) 353-6340 (FAX), e-mail: LSoren@bu.edu

PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

• Twenty-six years experience working in the Caribbean, including four years of field research on the breeding ecology of White-cheeked Pintails in the Bahamas, field research on West Indian Whistling-Ducks (WIWD) on Long Island, Bahamas, environmental assessment work, and long-term involvement with the Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds (SCSCB).

• Serving as co-chair of the WIWD Working Group of the SCSCB and Project Coordinator of The WIWD and Wetlands Conservation Project since its inception in 1996 with primary responsibility for overseeing and providing leadership on the project, fund raising, coordinating communications and liaising with contacts in each country, conducting training workshops, and development of numerous outreach materials, including writing and editing of Wondrous West Indian Wetlands: Teachers’ Resource Book

• Expertise in waterfowl and wetlands ecology and conservation, teaching, and bird surveying/monitoring techniques, familiar with wetland conservation threats and needs in the Bahamas and throughout the Caribbean.

• Four years research experience assessing the potential consequences of global warming on wetlands and waterfowl in both breeding and wintering areas of North America (1998-2001).

• With the Union of Concerned Scientists, developed and implemented outreach and communications strategies and public education on key global environmental issue such as climate change, biodiversity loss and invasive species.

S

EDUCATION Ph.D. Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, 1990, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. Thesis title: Breeding behavior and

ecology of a sedentary tropical duck: the white-cheeked pintail (Anas bahamensis bahamensis)

B.S. Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology, 1982, University of California, Davis, CA

PRESENT POSITIONS

President, Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds (SCSCB), 2009-present

Co-Project Coordinator, Caribbean BirdWatch: SCSCB-WHMSI Bird Monitoring Program. Coordinating the development of SCSCB’s regional bird monitoring program, including fund raising, strategy and materials development, and organizing and facilitating training workshops. 2009-present.

Project Coordinator, West Indian Whistling-Duck (WIWD) and Wetlands Conservation Project. Coordinating a region-wide public education and awareness program on the endangered WIWD and the importance of wetlands in the West Indies. 1996-present.

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA. 1998-present.

Research Associate, Smithsonian Institution, National Zoological Park, Washington, D.C. 1995-present.

Elective Member, American Ornithologists' Union, 1998-present.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Outreach Specialist/Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA. Nov. 2000-2001. Developed and implemented

outreach and communications strategies and public education on key global environmental issues such as climate change, biodiversity loss and invasive species.

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA. Project assessing the potential consequences of global warming on wetlands and waterfowl populations in the Prairie Pothole Region of the Northern Great Plains. 1998-2000.

Research Collaborator, Mid-Atlantic Regional Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change, part of the of the U.S. National Assessment process mandated by the U.S. Global Change Research Program. 1998–2000.

Environmental Consultant, Sun International Development Limited, Nassau, Bahamas. Prepared an environmental impact statement on the proposed redevelopment of the Paradise Island Golf Course. July, 1999.

Research Associate, Department of Biology/Museum of Zoology and School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1995-1997.

Visiting Lecturer, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan. Taught an upper division/graduate level course Ecology and Management of Waterfowl and Wildlife. Winter Semester, 1996.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Institution, Conserv. and Research Center, U.S. Nat’l Zoological Park, Front Royal, VA, 1990-1992

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

West Indian Whistling-Duck and Wetlands Conservation Project ($953,725, 2002-2010) - Grants from US Fish and Wildlife Service (Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act Fund), USFWS (Wildlife Without Borders Program), US Environmental Protection Agency, Wetlands International, American Bird Conservancy, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, GEF-UNEP grant to BirdLife International

Potential Effects of Global Warming on Waterfowl and Wetlands in the Prairie Pothole Region of the U.S. and Canada ($266,000, 1996-2000) - Grants from Institute for Wetlands and Waterfowl Research, Ducks Unlimited, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Electric Power Research Institute

Post-doctoral Research on Mate Choice, Sexual Selection, and the Behavioral Endocrinology of White-cheeked Pintails and Northern Pintails, Conservation and Research Center, Smithsonian Institution ($167,000, 1990-1996) - National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Friends of the National Zoo Postdoctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution Postdoctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Studies Program

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Sorenson, L.G. 2009. Long-term Bird Monitoring in the Caribbean - Why, What, Where and How? Rainforest Alliance’s Eco-Index. http://www.eco-index.org/search/results.cfm?ProjectID=1369

Sorenson, L., A. Haynes-Sutton, F. Rivera and J. Gerbracht. 2010. Caribbean Waterbird Census Trainers’ Manual. Draft manual, Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds. May 2010.

Haynes-Sutton, A., J. Alexander, F. Rivera, G. Welch, F. Hayes, J. Gerbracht, and L. Sorenson. 2009. Caribbean BirdWatch: How to Design and Implement a Bird Monitoring Programme in the Caribbean (draft SCSCB Bird Monitoring Manual).

Sorenson, L. G. 2008. The West Indian Whistling-Duck and Wetlands Conservation Project. Rainforest Alliance’s Eco-Index. http://www.eco-index.org/search/results.cfm?projectID=979. Winner of “Are We Making Progress Yet?” Award for best monitoring and evaluation methodology (May 2006).

Sorenson, L. Bradley, P., Mugica, L., and K. Wallace. 2005. West Indian Whistling-Duck and Wetlands Conservation Project: Symposium Report and Project News. The Journal of Caribbean Ornithology 18: 102-105.

Sorenson, L., Wallace, K., and L Mugica. 2005. Education, Awareness and Community Training Initiatives—Expanding on What Works and Ideas for New Initiatives. The Journal of Caribbean Ornithology 18: 84-86.

Sorenson, L.G. 2005. The White-cheeked Pintail (species account) in Bird Families of the World: Ducks, Geese, Swans. Edited by J. Kear, Oxford University Press.

Sorenson, L.G., Bradley, P.E. and M. Haynes Sutton. 2004. The West Indian Whistling-Duck and Wetlands Conservation Project: a model for species and wetlands conservation and education. The Journal of Caribbean Ornithology, Special Issue pp. 72-80.

Sutton, A.H. Sorenson, L.G., and Keeley, M. 2004. Second Edition. Wondrous West Indian Wetlands: Teachers’ Resource Book. West Indian Whistling-Duck Working Group of the Society of Caribbean Ornithology. Boston, MA, 276 pp.

Sorenson, L.G. and P. Bradley. 2002. News from the West Indian Whistling-Duck (WIWD) and Wetlands Conservation Project. El Pitirre 15: 137-139.

Anderson, M.G. and Sorenson, L.G. 2002. Global Climate Change and Waterfowl: Adaptation in the Face of Uncertainty. Transactions of the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference 66: 300-319.

Sorenson, L.G. and L. Hunter. 2002. West Indian Whistling-Duck and Wetlands Conservation Project. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Wildlife Without Borders Spring 2002: 8-9.

Sorenson, L.G., Goldberg, R., Anderson , M.G., Root, T.L., and C. Rosenzweig. 2001. Potential Impacts of Global Warming on Pothole Wetlands and Waterfowl. in Impacts of Climate Change on Wildlife. Edited by R. Green, M. Harley, M. Spalding, and C. Zockler. Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Bedford, UK.

Sorenson, L.G. 2000. Impacts of Global Warming on Waterfowl Wintering in the Chesapeake Bay. Pg. 208-213 in: Fisher, A. et al. Preparing for a Changing Climate—the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change: Mid-Atlantic Foundations Report. Prepared for U.S. Global Change Research Program First National Assessment, sponsored by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cooperative Agreement CR 826554, Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

Sorenson, L.G. and P. Bradley. 2000. Update on the West Indian Whistling-Duck (WIWD) and Wetlands Conservation Project — Report from the WIWD Working Group. El Pitirre 13: 57-63.

Sorenson, L.G., Goldberg, R., Root, T.L., and M.G. Anderson. 1998. Potential effects of global warming on waterfowl populations breeding in the Northern Great Plains. Climatic Change 40: 343-369.

Sorenson, L.G. & S.R. Derrickson. 1994. Sexual selection in the Northern Pintail (Anas acuta): the importance of female choice versus male-male competition in the evolution of sexually-selected traits. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 35: 389-400.

Sorenson, L.G. 1994. Forced extra-pair copulation and mate guarding in the White-cheeked Pintail: timing and trade-offs in an asynchronously breeding duck. Animal Behaviour 48: 519-533.

Sorenson, L.G. 1992. Variable mating system of a sedentary tropical duck: the White-cheeked Pintail (Anas bahamensis bahamensis). Auk 109: 277-292.

JEFF GERBRACHT Cornell University Lab of Ornithology (607) 254-2117

159 Sapsucker Woods Road jag73@cornell.edu

Ithaca, NY, 14850

Education

Purdue University Wildlife Management BS 1986

Professional Experience

2005-present Software Architect, Lead Software Engineer: Information Science, Cornell Lab of

Ornithology

2009-present Project Advisor and Workshop Co-facilitator: Caribbean BirdWatch Monitoring

Program, Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds, assisting with

development of SCSCB-WHMSI Regional Bird Monitoring Program

2001-2005 Software Developer: Information Science, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

1997-2001 Project Manager, Software Developer, Software Architect: SABRE

1992-1997 Project Manager: American Airlines, SABRE

Present Activities at Cornell Lab of Ornithology

eBird Project Management—manage software engineers, web designers, user interface experts,

and database administrators to design, develop, and maintain eBird, an online, protocol-based

citizen science application used by thousands of birdwatchers and ornithologists around the world to

monitor birds and bird populations. eBird incorporates a number of visualizations and reports that are

used in conservation and adaptive management of birds and biodiversity.

Breeding Bird Atlas—Design, develop and manage the Breeding Bird Atlas application which

currently gathers and manages the Breeding Bird Atlas programs for five states.

Software Architect—Design and develop hardware and software infrastructure for online citizen

science applications. This infrastructure supports many online citizen science data collection and

reporting projects including Project FeederWatch, Project NestWatch, Great Backyard Bird Count,

eBird, and Breeding Bird Atlases for several states. These applications engage birders with a

variety of experience across the hemisphere to collect bird observations and become citizen

scientists by assisting in bird monitoring.

Online Scientific Publishing—Created infrastructure and manage the architecture and

application for online publishing of Neotropical Birds online, a moderated wiki for creating and

publishing definitive accounts of the life histories of all Neotropcal bird species.

Web Sites

Produced web-based tools and resources for educators, scientists, and citizen scientists. Roles

include project lead, principal architect, software engineer, and project manager.

eBird. www.ebird.org.

Avian Knowledge Network. www.avianknowledge.net.

Breeding Bird Atlas. bird.atlasing.org

Neotropical Birds Online. Neotropical.birds.cornell.edu

Publications and Presentations

Sorenson, L., A. Haynes-Sutton, F. Rivera and J. Gerbracht. 2010. Caribbean Waterbird Census

Trainers’ Manual. Draft manual, Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds. May

2010.

eBird and Citizen Science. Mapping for Conservation Organizations Workshop, ESRI, March 2010.

Haynes-Sutton, A., J. Alexander, F. Rivera, G. Welch, F. Hayes, J. Gerbracht, and L. Sorenson. 2009.

Caribbean BirdWatch: How to Design and Implement a Bird Monitoring Programme in the

Caribbean (draft SCSCB Bird Monitoring Manual).

Gerbracht, J. The Avian Knowledge Network: Organizing the Many Data Resources of the Bird

Monitoring Community. SCSCB Bird Monitoring Workshops, Negril, Jamaica, February 2010 and

Nassau, Bahamas, February, 2009.

Gerbracht, J. eBird as a Level One Monitoring Tool for the Caribbean. SCSCB Bird Monitoring

Workshops, Negril, Jamaica, February 2010 and Nassau, Bahamas, February, 2009.

Gerbracht, J. and T. Schulenberg. An Introduction to Neotropical Birds Online. 17th

Regional Meeting

of the Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds (SCSCB), Antigua, July, 2009.

Gerbracht, J. eBird and Bird Monitoring. 17th

Regional Meeting of the SCSCB, Antigua, July, 2009.

Gerbracht, J. Building a Local Bird Specimen Collection. 17th

Regional Meeting of the SCSCB,

Antigua, July, 2009.

Gerbracht, J. Species Profile Model from an Avian Perspective. Taxonomic Database Working

Group Annual Meeting, 2008.

Wood, C. and J. Gerbracht. eBird and the Avian Knowledge Network. 16th

Regional Meeting of the

SCSCB, San Juan, Puerto Rico, July 2007.

Gerbracht, J. Conducting a Breeding Bird Atlas in the 21st Century, North American Ornithological

Conference, October, 2006.