The meeting will highlight:
Yellow-billed Cuckoo trainings taking place this year;
The 2022 Yellow-billed Cuckoo US-rangewide surveys;
Exciting progress made in cuckoo science, conservation, recovery, and funding by federal, state, non-profit, and private biologists; and
Continuing efforts by the Steering Committee to 1) formalize the working group, 2) address priority action items, 3) engage working group members, and 4) plan for the Fall 2022 Meeting.
Links to First Two Talks:
Hira Walker: Ideas for Moving the Working Group Forward
Rob Clay: Cuckoos and Deforestation in the Paraguayan Chaco
Links to the Remainder of Meeting:
This is an almost 3 hour and 10 min video. To navigate to specific talks, hover your cursor over the timeline to see the chapter titles and breaks. Updates on subcommittee progress on priority action items are presented from the start of the video until 1:35:52, followed by four presentations and a final Q&A. Here are the approximate start times for each presentation:
0:00 Jay Carlisle, C. Wise, L. Douglas, P. Wohner, & S. Prager – Update: Restoration one-pager
9:58 Murrelet Halterman, J. Stanek, & A. Petry – Update: Cuckoo survey form and data revisions
15:52 Kristen Dillon – Update: Centralized cuckoo database
24:19 Shannon McNeil – Update: Grants for restoration work
36:33 Callie Stanley – Update: Full-life cycle model and how you can help
43:27 Mary Whitfield – Update: Bird genoscape for cuckoos
46.22 Linnea Hall (B. Orr & H. Walker filling in) – Update: Information-gathering on pesticide effects
52:55 Patti Wohner – Update: Special issue publication on research to inform cuckoo conservation
56:18 Cathy Wise, E. Juarez, & C. Stanley – Update: Southern Wings project on Gran Chaco
1:08:06 Jim Hatten, M. Johnson, & J. Holmes – Update: Application of a cuckoo habitat model rangewide
1:35:52 Jay Carlisle – Subcommittees and action items
2:18:23 Jenny Davis – Cuckoo workshops taking place this year
2:27:41 Edwin Juarez – The 2022 rangewide surveys and how you can help
2:45:45 Jenna Stanek – Looking ahead to the Fall 2022 Working Group Meeting
3:03:22 Moderator – Concluding remarks and Q&A from the working group
This meeting is a collaborative effort between the Yellow-billed Cuckoo Working Group and the Pajarito Environmental Education Center