Senior research fellow Rafael Rueda Hernandez led a webinar for MoSI-BGP collaborators at Universidad de Guadalajara, in Puerto Vallarta. He was invited by Dr. Sylvia de la Parra and Dr. Alfonso Langle, postdoctoral fellows at the university, who will be running a MoSI station and collecting feather samples for the Bird Genoscape Project. The webinar was attended by students as well as volunteers.
MoSI webinar participants
He also gave a talk to three students from the Universidad de Tabasco who volunteer during the field season in Tabasco. They are interested in collaborating with the Bird Genoscape Project and plan on collecting feather samples from their field sites.
Rafael with three student volunteers who will collect feathers for the genoscape project
Male painted bunting captured at the field site in Tabasco
Female painted bunting captured at a field site in Tabasco