| Organized by: | The Institute for Bird Populations | |
| Contact: | James Saracco or Peter Pyle | |
| Date: | 8-12 October 2006 | |
| Location: | La Mancha Coastal Research Center, Actopan, Veracruz | |
| Logistics: | We will depart from Veracruz via bus on the morning of 8 October and return on 12 October in the early afternoon. Housing and meals will be provided at the field station in La Mancha (both vegetarians and omnivores can be accommodated). | |
| Fee: | There will be a registration fee of about $100 to cover housing, meal, and transportation costs for the 4-day workshop (exact cost to be announced soon). | |
| Registration: | Those interested in attending the bander training workshop should contact James Saracco |
Description: Mornings (9-12 October) will be spent mist netting and banding birds. Particular focus will be on ageing and sexing birds by molt limits and plumage characteristics. Seminars and discussion will be held during most afternoons. Seminar and discussion topics will include (1) the use of mist-netting and banding in broad-scale coordinated bird monitoring in the Neotropics (primarily MoSI, but also other proposed banding efforts, such as TMAPS [Tropical Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship]), (2) details of MoSI protocols and data collection, and (3) molt patterns and plumage and their use in age determination (both for resident and migrant birds). MoSI administrative meetings and collaborator discussion groups will take place during evenings. During the first two days of the bander training workshop there will be opportunities to interact in joint sessions with attendees of the Bird Banding in the Americas workshop. Participants should come to these joint sessions prepared to voice their ideas, opinions, experiences, and needs to those involved in coordinating banding efforts across the western hemisphere.
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