A three-day workshop was held in Mexico City, Mexico from November 13-15, 2018, to bring together four principle cooperators – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), The Bird Genoscape Project (BGP), Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO) and The Institute for Bird Populations (IBP) – along with field station operators and scientists from across Mexico. During this workshop, we:
- Established a long-term partnership between the Bird Genoscape Project (BGP), UNAM and our two collaborators, CONABIO and the IBP, to further bird conservation efforts between U.S. and Mexico; and
- Trained UNAM and UCLA students on the principles and techniques of bird banding, genetics, and population dynamics
Learn more about the UC Mexus workshop here
Below are some photos highlighting the success of this workshop:
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Group photo of all the workshop participants
Senior Research Fellow, Rafael Rueda-Hernandez, presenting a talk on molts
Humberto Berlanga (CONABIO), Coro Arizmendi (UNAM), Kristen Ruegg (Colorado State University) and Steve Albert (Institute for Bird Populations) discussing future steps to continue collaboration
Workshop participants
Group photo of workshop participants who attended the lab demonstration led by Jasmine Rajbhandary at Blanca Hernandez’s lab
Sergio Gomez , Manuel Grosselet and Said Felix explaining how to age birds
Workshop participant Teresa Anderson (Audubon Soceity) learning how to hold and band a bird
Sergio Gomez, Kristen Ruegg, Rafael Rueda-Hernandez and Jasmine Rajbhandary collecting feather samples for the Bird Genoscape Project