Conservation Priorities for Birds of Conservation Concern in Latin America

Acknowledgements

    This project was partially funded by Canon USA, through The Nature Conservancy’s Wings of the Americas program and the University of Arkansas Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies.

    Data were provided by Steve Howell (Point Reyes Bird Observatory) and A. Townsend Peterson (University of Kansas). We owe many thanks to these and the rest of the project’s steering committee: Bette Loiselle (University of Missouri St Louis); Stuart Pimm (University of Tennessee); Robert Ridgely (Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia); Doug Stotz (Field Museum of Natural History); David Wege (BirdLife International) and Paul Williams (Natural History Museum - London). Karen Berky, Colin Bibby, Don Catanzaro, Nigel Collar, Nancy Jo Craig, Rob Dzur, Kristin Everly, Bruce Gorham, Vince Guillet, Leo Joseph, Xiao Jun Li, Lisa Manne, Larry Master, Adrienne Moore, Jeff Parrish, Ronda Mosley-Rovi, Christina Wurschy and the other staff of The Nature Conservancy’s Wings of the Americas program and the University of Arkansas Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies and Department of Biological Sciences provided further help.

    In addition to these scientists, the following participants in the project planning session at the North American Ornithological Congress in St Louis, 7 April 1998, provided much useful input: David Barber, Fred Baumgarten, Charles Duncan, Ernesto Enkerlin, Bob Ford, Oliver Komar, Roberto Phillips, Cecilia Riley, Ernesto Ruelas Inzunza, Bruce Schuette, Stacy Small, and Bruce Young. Further thanks go to Jon Fjeldså, Carlos Gonzalez, Morton and Phyllis Isler, Alberto Madroño-Nieto, Mike Parr, Chris Sharpe, and Christine Wilder.

Collaborators

Lead Institutions and Staff:

Principal Investigators:

    The Nature Conservancy Wings of the Americas Program

        David Mehlman

        Roberto Roca¹

    University of Arkansas, Department of Biological Sciences

        Kimberly Smith

    University of Arkansas, Center for Advanced Spatial Technology

        Thomas Brooks¹

        Fred Limp

Additional Staff:

    The Nature Conservancy Wings of the Americas Program

        Marcus Koenen

        Danny Kwan

        Jeffrey Parrish²

        Kevin Skerl³

    University of Arkansas, Center for Advanced Spatial Technologys

        Alex Jahn

        Jim Taulman

Sponsor:

Canon U.S.A., Inc.

Technical Advisory Committee:

Steve Howell, Point Reyes Bird Ovservatory

Bette Loiselle, University of Missouri, St. Louis

A. Townsend Peterson, University of Kansas

Stuart Pimm, Universtiy of Tennessee

Robert Ridgely, Academy of Natural Sciences

Douglas Stotz, The Field Museum, Chicago (Chicago)

David Wege, BirdLife International

Paul Williams, The Natural History Museum (London)

Donors:

Private Individuals

Conservation, Food & Health Foundation, Inc.

World Wildlife Fund U.S.

Collaborating Institutions:

World Wildlife Fund U.S.

Conservation International

Association for Biodiversity Information

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¹Current address: Conservation International, Center for Applied Biodiversity Science

²Current address: The Nature Conservancy, Latin American and Carribbean Region