The Sonoran Joint Venture has been supporting long-term ecological monitoring for decades. This spring we partnered with the Tucson Audubon Society (TAS) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to revive a Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) bird banding station in the Las Cienegas National Conservation Area in southeast Arizona. This station was previously [...]
While “Motus” may seem like the latest bird conservation buzzword, the Motus Wildlife Tracking System (Motus) is a program of Birds Canada that was launched in 2014. It has continued to gain popularity as a tool to study the ecology and conservation of migratory animals. Radio telemetry has been used since the 1960’s to track [...]
The Rio Grande Joint Venture (RGJV) covers roughly 63 million acres, crisscrossed by seemingly infinite boundaries: natural, cultural, and political. The diverse geography supports about 700 bird species, 75% of which are landbirds. Along with the Sonoran Joint Venture (SJV), the RGJV is the only other Migratory Bird Joint Venture whose geography spans the border [...]