PAGE 1: A. Title of Proposed Project

MONITORING LAND IN PROTECTED AREAS FOR ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT AND PUBLIC EDUCATION

B. Cover letter signed by the authorized representative of the firm.

Please see attached cover letter.

C. Contact Information of the Firm

• Name of Firm: Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds • Name of Contact Person(s): Ann Sutton • Address: Marshall’s Pen, PO Box 58, Mandeville • Country: Jamaica • Telephone: Home Office: 876 904 5454 Mobile: 876 877 7335 • Fax: None • Email: [email protected] • Website: scscb.org

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E. Project Summary: An abstract of the proposal (200 words or less) both in English and Spanish.

The SCSCB is proposing the project “Monitoring Landbirds in Caribbean Protected Areas for Adaptive Management and Public Education” to take place in the insular Caribbean plus Trinidad and Tobago.

SCSCB’s Caribbean monitoring partnership will implement this project, which will promote landbird monitoring as a means to improve conservation and management of biodiversity (especially migratory birds) and engage citizens in monitoring, thereby increasing awareness. The SCSCB will hold a workshop to promote terrestrial monitoring in protected areas and buffer zones and their application to adaptive management and environmental education. Based on discussion at the workshop, SCSCB will develop a strategy to increase capacity for bird and habitat monitoring using citizen scientists.

Target audiences will include protected area managers, educators, field biologists, volunteers, funding agencies and international organizations. Products will include second editions of Caribbean Birdwatch training manuals, including development of programmes for monitoring landbirds and supporting activities (such as fund raising, public education and the use of volunteers) to supplement existing materials. A strategy for a Caribbean approach to applying citizen science to bird monitoring will be developed. Efforts will be made to promote distance learning techniques and on-line access to materials using the latest technology.

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F. Project description (Maximum sixteen pages) - A description of the proposed outcome (product) of the project.

Rationale : The Caribbean , formed by an archipelago of more than 7,000 islands and islets, occupies the fifth position in the list of the world’s 25 biodiversity hotspots (Myers et al. 2000). This region is only surpassed in number of and endemism by the tropical of the , Sundaland, Madagascar and Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. Three percent of endemic vertebrates world-wide are of Caribbean origin, given that 51% of the region’s 1,518 vertebrate species are endemic. Birds, with 668 reported species, form the largest group of vertebrates. Of these, 148 species (22%) are endemic to the region, with 105 species being restricted to single islands.

The diverse Caribbean avifauna includes more than 120 migratory species that breed in , but use insular habitats as wintering or stopover sites. Species showing population declines in North America like the Cape May Warbler ( Dendroica tigrina ), Northern Parula ( Parula americana ), Black-throated Blue Warbler ( Dendroica caerulescens ), Palm Warbler (Dendroica palmarum ) and Prairie Warbler ( Dendroica discolor ) are common migrants in the Caribbean. In addition, the region provides the only known wintering grounds for the globally endangered Kirtland’s Warbler ( Dendroica kirtlandii) and Bicknell’s Thrush ( Catharus bicknelli ), as well as to the possibly extinct Bachman’s Warbler ( Vermivora bachmanii ). Like landbirds, a high number of aquatic bird species, seabirds and shorebirds are found in Caribbean and coastal habitats during their non-breeding seasons. Some of these species spend as much as eight months of the year in the region.

In spite of the critical importance of Caribbean ecosystems for resident and migratory bird species, only 11.3% of the region’s primary vegetation remains (29,840 km 2 of 263,500 km 2). This dramatic habitat loss has been mainly related to activities of a highly dense human population, estimated in 37.5 million, with an annual growth rate of approximately 2.5%. Natural forests are expected to continue shrinking as more land is used for , cattle raising, and urban development. In addition to these threats, Caribbean avifauna is affected by competition with invasive species, illegal hunting and trade, as well as the regular passage of hurricanes and tropical storms that destroy prey resources, and nesting, roosting and foraging sites. The unsustainable use of Caribbean natural resources and climate effects, which have already threatened with extinction 56 resident species, also represent a challenge for the conservation of Neotropical migrants on their wintering grounds.

Management programmes for the protection and restoration of habitats in the Caribbean are of utmost importance given the diminishing availability of primary habitat. While monitoring the number of species and individuals using resources can be used to assess the outcomes of these programmes, it can also provide an opportunity to implement adaptive management practices and increase awareness of the importance of birds and their habitats. Being highly diverse, easy to detect and better known than other vertebrate groups, bird species are the best available indicators of overall habitat quality.

Most Caribbean protected areas and their buffer zones include human settlements and many bird species move between them. Thus the relationship between protected areas and urban areas is much closer in small islands than in the US. Meanwhile, the number of trained ornithologists in the protected areas and surrounding areas is small and the capacity to pay them very limited. Hence citizen science has a great potential to help protected areas gather data for adaptive management, meanwhile building awareness and commitment to bird conservation. Several of SCSCB’s programmes have identified this potential (including International Migratory Bird Day and Caribbean Endemic Bird Festival celebrations which involve communities in bird-related activities and the development of bird identification cards for individual islands (including Jamaica, Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Cayman Islands, Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines) have begun to address this gap. The implementation of a programe based on Cornell Laboratory Of Ornithology’s “Celebrate Urban Birds” programme has been tested in and shown to be feasible. SCSCB now needs to explore how it could be applied to the rest of the Caribbean in support of bird conservation and to develop a funding proposal to implement it.

Estimating population trends (and sizes) is a basic step toward the development of management and conservation strategies, but despite the region’s critical importance for avian biodiversity, there are currently no region-wide monitoring programmes that can provide data on the status and trends of migratory species or the extent to which conservation efforts in the region meet their needs. Indeed, very few data exist on species presence or number of individuals, mainly coming from scattered short-term projects. SCSCB has begun to develop a region-wide programme to assess the gaps in protection, evaluate strategies for addressing threats, improving implementation of protected areas, and understanding migration patterns and population trends related to ongoing and expected impacts of . In 2009 SCSCB held a workshop on all-bird monitoring and produced a draft manual – “Caribbean Birdwatch – how to design and implement a bird monitoring programme in the Caribbean.” In 2010 SCSCB built on the previous workshop by establishing the Caribbean Waterbird Census - a coordinated effort to design and implement a common protocol for monitoring waterfowl, shorebirds and seabirds throughout the region, train personnel in field monitoring techniques, and provide funding to implement the programme in the long-term. The current proposal seeks to build out the landbird monitoring aspects of Caribbbean Birdwatch and to explore ways to broaden its scope by involving citizen scientists.

The Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds (SCSCB) is the leading non-governmental organization dedicated to the protection of the region’s bird species and their habitats through research, education, conservation action and capacity building (Sorenson 2008). SCSCB has c.300 conservationists and researchers among its membership, including representatives of most of the region’s territories and states, and of all NGOs and government agencies working with avian conservation in the islands. The broad expertise of its members has provided SCSCB the opportunity to examine the major challenges for the protection of Caribbean bird species, particularly through the efforts of the Monitoring and Seabirds, Waterbirds and Wetlands Education working groups. As a result, reports prepared by these working groups have identified the need to develop the capacity in the region for monitoring the status of birds and their habitats (see scscb.org). In doing so the following main three main issues have been identified:  The need for monitoring is not widely recognized among government agencies, protected area managers and project managers,  When agencies recognize the need for monitoring, there are many problems that inhibit the development of effective monitoring programmes, including:

 Lack of skills and confidence to conceive monitoring programmes that address the information gaps in a cost effective way. Very often this means that monitoring is not implemented because it is expected to be too difficult to develop and too costly and time-consuming to implement and human resources are lacking.  Monitoring programmes are sometimes developed that do not provide answers to the questions that face natural resource managers.  Monitoring programmes are not always statistically robust.  The results of monitoring programmes are often not presented to decision- makers in a format that they can use.  There is a shortage of people with the relevant skills to develop and implement bird monitoring programmes  There is a shortage of funds to implement monitoring, particularly for long-term programmes.  There is no regional repository for monitoring data, and thus the cumulative usefulness of individual monitoring programmes is missed.  There are several local, regional and international monitoring programmes in the region but there is little coordination and so opportunities for synergies are being lost.  Lack of appreciation of the scientific and educational value of involving citizen scientists in monitoring.

As mentioned above, this project seeks to build on the work SCSCB has already done to address these issues in the two previous WHMSI workshops (bird monitoring in general 2009, and establishing the Caribbean Waterbird Census 2010).

Project Goals and Objectives:

Goal : The proposed project will improve management of protected areas and their buffer zones and increase public support for conservation by building capacity in the Caribbean region to monitor migratory landbird populations in protected areas (actual and proposed), buffer zones and adjacent areas, thereby supporting adaptive management programmes and increasing public involvement. This goal will be implemented through a partnership with international and local non- governmental organizations to ensure that conservation and management of migratory birds in the Caribbean region meet their needs and is based on the best available scientific information. The partnership includes Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, the National Aviary, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, BirdLife International and USDA International Institute of Tropical Forestry, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, which all have ongoing or proposed monitoring programmes or related activities in various islands. SCSCB along with these organizations will continue to expand a coordinated regional programme intended to promote monitoring as a means to provide relevant information to decision-makers and protected area managers and educate the public.

Objectives: • Promote landbird monitoring as a management, conservation and public education tool in protected areas and buffer zones. • Host a regional workshop to train protected area managers and staff to design and implement bird and habitat monitoring in terrestrial protected areas • Develop a framework for the development of a project for citizen science in support of bird monitoring in the Caribbean.

Project Activities and Methodologies:

Project implementation will consist of the following:

Training workshop: The outline of the workshop will be as follows: Day 1: Adaptive management and the importance of monitoring, how to design monitoring programmes, other administrative and capacity issues related to capacity development, overview of area search and point count monitoring protocols. Day 2: Landbird and habitat monitoring – a.m. Field trip to practice area search count method. p.m. data analysis and interpretation. Day 3: Landbird and habitat monitoring – a.m. Field trip to practice point counts and habitat monitoring, p.m. data analysis and interpretation. Day 4: a.m. Banding demonstrationand discussion of pros and cons of running a banding program, p.m. Data analysis and report writing clinic Day 5: Citizen science for bird monitoring and public education options - developing a strategy for adapting backyard/urban birding programmes for the Caribbean – all day.

The outputs of the workshop are expected to include: • At least 10 trained persons capable of training and mentoring others in their own and in neighboring countries in a wide variety of skills related to all stages of bird monitoring. • Enhanced version of Caribbean Birdwatch focused on landbird monitoring. • Strategy for developing a project to implement backyard/urban birding as a means to support adaptive management of protected area and buffer zones and increase public awareness and appreciation of the importance of birds and their habitats.

4. Time frame / work plan

ACTIVITY OUTPUTS INDICATORS RESPONSIBLE COMPLETION HEADING OF SUCCESS PERSON DATE Development of Landbird monitoring 1 manual Lisa February 2011 materials protocol revised and produced Sorenson/Ann updated Sutton Workshop Workshop held Total no of Ann Sutton/ February 2011 participants Lisa Representation Sorenson/ Jeff of special Gerbracht/ interest groups John (decision- Alexander makers, protected area managers, scientists, volunteers, educators) Workshop Ann Sutton/ March 2011 report Lisa Sorenson produced Strategy Strategy developed for Strategy Lisa March 2011 development citizen science in produced Sorenson/Ann landbird monitoring in Sutton/Jeff the Caribbean Gerbracht

List of documents to be developed: • Second edition of Landbird Monitoring Manual chapters of Caribbean Monitoring Training Manual • Strategy for using citizen science to support landbird monitoring in protected areas and adjacent areas and to promote awareness and appreciation of birds and their habitats • Report on training workshop • Final report on project.

5. Team Composition and Task Assignment: Indicate the structure and composition of your team. List the name of staff, firm, area of expertise, position assigned, and task assigned.

Position: Team Lead s: Name: Ann Sutton Organisation: Secretary SCSCB, Co-chair Monitoring Working Group. Seabirds Working Group Area of expertise: Bird monitoring, conservation education, protected area management Task assigned: Leads project implementation, strategy development, assists with general and specific aspects of training

Name: Lisa Sorenson Organisation: Vice-president SCSCB, Chair West Indian Whistling Duck Working Group Area of expertise: Bird research, waterfowl, wetlands education, ecology and conservation, climate change impacts on birds and habitats

Task assigned: Guides project design and implementation, assists with training workshop

Position: Assistant Project Advisor Name: Jeff Gerbracht Organisation: Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology Area of expertise: eBird, citizen science programs Task assigned: Guides project design and implementation, assists with training workshop

The following individuals and organizations are part of our monitoring coalition and have also agreed to assist with project design, implementation and training: • Frank Rivera, US Fish and Wildlife Service • John Alexander, Klamath Bird Observatory • Steve Latta, The National Aviary • Adrianne Tossas, University of Puerto Rico, Aguadilla • Joe Wunderle, Institute of Tropical Forestry • David Wege, BirdLife International • James Millet, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds • Peter Marra, Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center We are also hoping to get support from The Nature Conservancy, Caribbean Programme.

6. CVs of Proposed Staff: CVs of major team members Ann Sutton, Lisa Sorenson and Jeff Gerbracht are attached. Note that all these individuals have wide experience of establishing and running monitoring programmes, training, environmental education and applied conservation.

7. Staffing Schedule: SCSCB is a voluntary organization, which depends on project funds to implement its programmes. As such it does not have any staff at present, so project staff would be contractors and volunteers, as well as employees of our partner organizations.

8. Work Schedule:

Months N° Activity 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 A S O N D J F M

STRATEGY and MATERIALS A DEVELOPMENT

1 Finalize work plan Hold online consultations with 4 experts 5 Produce manuals B TRAINING WORKSHOP 1 Invite participants Plan venue, accommodation, 2 transportation 3 Hold workshop Develop strategy for citizen 4 science in Caribbean landbird monitoring 4 Prepare workshop report

C SUBMIT FINAL REPORT

Final report submitted

MAINTENANCE OF MONITORING D NETWORK/PARTNERSHIP, WEBSITE AND DATABASE

Communications programme

implemented

9. Relevant literature cited as footnotes

Bradley, P. 2008. Seabirds of the – Island Accounts. University Press of Florida. Myers, N., Mittermeier, R. A., C. G. Mittermeier, G. A. B. da Fonseca, and J. Kent. 2000. Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities. Nature 403:853-858. Sorenson, L. 2008. SCSCB Strategic plan 2008-2012. SCSCB, Washington.

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G. Summary of Costs

UNIT TOTAL COST TOTAL COST HEADING ITEM DESCRIPTION COST # UNITS WHSMI COUNTERPART

WORKSHOP Professional fees Workshop organization 400 10 2000 2000 Workshop materials development 400 10 2000 5000 Workshop delivery 400 10 2000 2000 Airfares International participants 600 10 6000 6000 Presenters 600 3 1800 500 Accommodation and meals international 10 persons x 5 days @ participants $150/day 150 50 5000 2500 Accommodation and meals for 4 persons x 7 days @ presenters $150/day 150 28 3150 1050 Meals for local participants 20 persons 15 100 1500 0 Transportation for field trips 0 0 300 0 Photocopying and production 0 0 250 0 MATERIALS AND SUPPLIES Binoculars 10 pairs @$200 each 200 10 1000 1000 Range finders 10 @ $150 each 10 150 1500 GPS units 10 @ $100 each 10 100 1000 Field guides & other bird ID materials 500

Use of Banding, playback and equipment telescopes 1000 MISCELLANEOUS Miscellaneous 0 0 0 4000 DIRECT ADMINISTRATIVE Administrative OVERHEADS overheads 1500 0 1000 2000 TOTAL 26000 29000

Appendix 1. This is a list of Nearctic-Neotropical migrants that occur regularly in the Caribbean. The list is derived from Rappole (1995, pp. 173-182) and includes those species for which all or part of the population breeds north of the Tropic of Cancer and winters south of that line. Of the 341 migrants listed by Rappole (1995), 218 or 64% occur in the Caribbean. English and scientific names follow the of the American Ornithologists' Union's Checklist of North American Birds, seventh edition (1998) and supplement 42 (2000).

Common Name Scientific Name Common Name Scientific Name

Podicipediformes Wood Stork Mycteria americana Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura

Pelecaniformes Anseriformes Brown Pelican Pelecanus Fulvous Dendrocygna bicolor occidentalis Whistling-Duck Neotropic Phalacrocorax Snow Goose Chen caerulescens Cormorant brasilianus Wood Duck Aix sponsa Double-crested Phalacrocorax Anas strepera Cormorant auritus Anhinga Anhinga anhinga Anas americana Anas platyrhynchos Ciconiiformes Blue-winged Teal Anas discors American Bittern Botaurus Anas clypeata lentiginosus Anas acuta Least Bittern Ixobrychus exilis Green-winged Anas crecca Great Blue Heron Ardea Herodias Teal Great Egret Ardea alba Aythya valisineria Snowy Egret Egretta thula Aythya americana Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor Hooded Lophodytes Merganser cucullatus Reddish Egret Egretta rufescens Red-breasted Mergus serrator Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis Merganser Green Heron Butorides virescens Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis Black-crowned Nycticorax Night-Heron nycticorax Falconiformes Yellow-crowned Nyctanassa violacea Osprey Pandion haliaetus Night-Heron White Ibis Eudocimus albus -tailed Elanoides forficatus Kite Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus Northern Harrier Circus cyaneus Roseate Spoonbill Ajaia ajaja Sharp-shinned Accipiter striatus Common Name Scientific Name Common Name Scientific Name

Hawk longicauda Common Black- Buteogallus Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus Hawk anthracinus Hudsonian Limosa haemastica Broad-winged Buteo platypterus Godwit Hawk Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis Red Knot Calidris canutus American Kestrel Falco sparverius Sanderling Calidris alba Merlin Falco columbarius Semipalmated Calidris pusilla Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus Sandpiper Western Calidris mauri Gruiformes Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla Black Rail Laterallus jamaicensis White-rumped Calidris fuscicollis King Rail Rallus elegans Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii Virginia Rail Rallus limicola Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos Sora Porzana carolina Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus Purple Gallinule Porphyrula martinica Buff-breasted Tryngites Common Gallinula chloropus Sandpiper subruficollis Moorhen Short-billed Limnodromus American Coot Fulica americana Dowitcher griseus Long-billed Limnodromus Sandhill Crane Grus canadensis Dowitcher scolopaceus Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago Charadriiformes Wilson's Phalaropus tricolor Black-bellied Pluvialis squatarola Phalarope Plover Red-necked Phalaropus lobatus American Golden- Pluvialis dominica Phalarope Plover Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicaria Snowy Plover Charadrius Laughing Gull Larus atricilla alexandrinus Bonaparte's Gull Larus Philadelphia Wilson's Plover Charadrius wilsonia Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis Semipalmated Charadrius Plover semipalmatus Gull-billed Tern Sterna nilotica Charadrius melodus Caspian Tern Sterna caspia Killdeer Charadrius vociferus Royal Tern Sterna maxima American Haematopus Sandwich Tern Sterna sandvicensis Oystercatcher palliatus Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii Black-necked Stilt Himantopus Common Tern Sterna mexicanus American Avocet Recurvirostra Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri americana Least Tern Sterna antillarum Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca Sooty Tern Sterna fuscata Black Tern Chlidonias niger

Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes Black Skimmer Rynchops niger Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria Willet Catoptrophorus Columbiformes semipalmatus White-crowned Columba Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularia Pigeon leucocephala Upland Sandpiper Bartramia White-winged Zenaida asiatica Common Name Scientific Name Common Name Scientific Name

Dove Great Crested Myiarchus crinitus Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura Flycatcher Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus

melancholicus Cuculiformes Western Kingbird Tyrannus verticalis Black-billed Coccyzus Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus Cuckoo erythropthalmus Gray Kingbird Tyrannus Yellow-billed Coccyzus americanus dominicensis Cuckoo Scissor-tailed Tyrannus forficatus Mangrove Cuckoo Coccyzus minor Flycatcher White-eyed Vireo Vireo griseus Yellow-throated Vireo flavifrons Strigiformes Vireo Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia Blue-headed Vireo Vireo solitarius Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus Philadelphia Vireo Vireo philadelphicus Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus Caprimulgiformes Black-whiskered Vireo altiloquus Vireo Common Chordeiles minor Caribbean Martin dominicensis Nighthawk Chuck-will's- Caprimulgus Progne subis widow carolinensis bicolor Northern Rough- Apodiformes winged Swallow serripennis Black Swift Cypseloides niger Bank Swallow riparia Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica pyrrhonota Ruby-throated Archilochus colubris Petrochelidon fulva Hummingbird Hirundo rustica Coraciiformes Belted Kingfisher Ceryle alcyon House Wren Troglodytes aedon

Ruby-crowned Regulus calendula Piciformes Kinglet Yellow-bellied Sphyrapicus varius Blue-gray Polioptila caerulea Sapsucker Gnatcatcher Veery Catharus fuscescens Passeriformes Gray-cheeked Catharus minimus Western Wood- Contopus sordidulus Thrush Pewee Bicknell's Thrush Catharus bicknelli Eastern Wood- Contopus virens Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus Pewee Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus Yellow-bellied Empidonax Flycatcher flaviventris Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina Acadian Empidonax virescens American Robin Turdus migratorius Flycatcher Gray Catbird Dumetella Alder Flycatcher Empidonax alnorum carolinensis Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii American Pipit Anthus rubescens Least Flycatcher Empidonax minimus Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe Blue-winged Vermivora pinus Warbler Common Name Scientific Name Common Name Scientific Name

Golden-winged Vermivora Hooded Warbler Wilsonia citrine Warbler chrysoptera Wilson's Warbler Wilsonia pusilla Tennessee Warbler Vermivora peregrina Canada Warbler Wilsonia canadensis Orange-crowned Vermivora celata Summer Tanager Piranga rubra Warbler Nashville Warbler Vermivora ruficapilla Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea Northern Parula Parula americana Rufous-crowned Aimophila ruficeps Sparrow Yellow Warbler Dendroica petechia Chipping Sparrow Spizella Chestnut-sided Dendroica Savannah Sparrow Passerculus Warbler pensylvanica sandwichensis Magnolia Warbler Dendroica magnolia Grasshopper Ammodramus Cape May Warbler Dendroica tigrina Sparrow savannarum Black-throated Dendroica Lincoln's Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii Blue Warbler caerulescens White-crowned Zonotrichia Yellow-rumped Dendroica coronata Sparrow leucophrys Warbler Rose-breasted Pheucticus Black-throated Dendroica virens Grosbeak ludovicianus Green Warbler Blue Grosbeak Guiraca caerulea Blackburnian Dendroica fusca Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea Warbler Yellow-throated Dendroica dominica Painted Bunting Passerina ciris Warbler Dickcissel Spiza americana Pine Warbler Dendroica pinus Bobolink Dolichonyx Kirtland's Warbler Dendroica kirtlandii oryzivorus Prairie Warbler Dendroica discolor Red-winged Agelaius phoeniceus Blackbird Palm Warbler Dendroica palmarum Eastern Sturnella magna Bay-breasted Dendroica castanea Meadowlark Warbler Brown-headed Molothrus ater Blackpoll Warbler Dendroica striata Cowbird Cerulean Warbler Dendroica cerulean Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius Black-and-white Mniotilta varia Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula Warbler American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla Prothonotary Protonotaria citrea Warbler Worm-eating Helmitheros Warbler vermivorus Swainson's Limnothlypis Warbler swainsonii Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapillus Northern Seiurus Waterthrush noveboracensis Louisiana Seiurus motacilla Waterthrush Kentucky Warbler Oporornis formosus Connecticut Oporornis agilis Warbler Mourning Warbler Oporornis philadelphia Common Geothlypis trichas CURRICULUM VITAE (Summaries for team leaders)

CURRICULUM VITAE (Summary)

ANN M. HAYNES-SUTTON Ph.D.

GENERAL INFORMATION PERMANENT ADDRESS : Marshall's Pen, P.O. Box 58, Mandeville, Jamaica W.I. TELEPHONE NUMBER : Home: (876) 904-5454. Mobile : (876) 877 7335 E-MAIL : [email protected] DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH : 7th November 1951, London, England. AGE : 57 MARITAL STATUS : Widowed NATIONALITY : British

EDUCATION 2008 Mangrove Restoration (5 days). Lewis Environmental Services Inc. 2003 Project Management (2 days) ESI/ George Washington University. 2003 Microsoft Project training course (2 days). New Horizons, Kingston Jamaica 1983-1995 Ph.D . in Zoology (Wildlife Management) at University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica. Title " On the nesting ecology of seabirds at the Morant Cays (Jamaica), with special reference to nest site selection, conservation and management". 1980-1981 Diploma in Graphic Art, (part-time), at the Jamaica School of Art, Kingston 5, Jamaica. 1970-1974 B.Sc. Honours in Zoology (2.2), at Dundee University, Dundee, Scotland. Subsidiary subjects: Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Psychology.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: CONSULTING 1987- present : Independent Environmental Consultant with special interest in conservation and ecology of wildlife and wetlands; protected area design and management; ecotourism (including leading, organising and providing accommodation for ornithological tours); and environmental education. Assignments have included: 2009-10 Lead consultant on project to develop management plans for three fish sanctuaries in the Portland Bight Protected Area, Jamaica. For Caribbean Coastal Area Management Foundation. 2009 Natural History Consultant for Buff Bay Agro-tourism project. For International Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture. 2009: Joint lead consultant on Migratory Species Initiative Project “I ncreasing capacity for Caribbean wetlands conservation: a training workshop for monitoring, education and conservation” on behalf of the Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds/ 2008-9: Designed and coordinated Western Hemisphere Migratory Species Initiative Project “Long-term bird monitoring in the Caribbean” on behalf of the Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds. 2007-9: Portland Bight Sustainable Project: Phase 1, for Caribbean Coastal Area Management Foundation. 2006: Planning for development of a Watchable Wildlife for the Royal Palm Reserve, Negril for Negril Environmental Protection Trust 2003 Surveys of ducks in Jamaica for and National Environment and Planning Agency 2002-5 Caribbean See Seabirds Project (including regional planning for waterbirds, seabirds surveys and training, seabirds environmental education) for the Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds 2003-5 Lead consultant for Development of Biophysical Indicators for Monitoring the Portland Bight Protected Area for Inter-American Development Bank/Global Environment Facility 2001-2 Environmental Consultant for South Coast Sustainable Development Project, focused on protected areas planning and environmental impact assessments (Scott Wilson Assoc.) 2001 Assessment of community involvement in local sustainable development and local governance (for Canadian International Development Agency).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: EMPLOYMENT 2007-2009: Lecturer at Northern Caribbean University . Taught Post-graduate course in “Principles and Practices of Conservation.” 2003–2007 : Director of Conservation - The Nature Conservancy in Jamaica. (Half time position). Developed and supervised TNC’s conservation programmes in Jamaica, including Cockpit Country Parks in Peril programme, Protected Area System Planning, Gap Analysis and Eco-regional Planning. 1981–1987 : Acting Chief, Ecology Branch, Natural Resources Conservation Division . Responsibilities included development and implementation of wildlife and terrestrial ecology policy; wildlife law enforcement; wildlife project development, management and search for funding; public education for wildlife conservation including organising programmes of talks, and slide shows; design writing and production of, posters and leaflets; participation in, and facilitation of, research; monitoring the status of critical wildlife populations; development planning; and environmental impact assessment.

BOOKS Haynes-Sutton, A., Downer, A., & Sutton, R. 2009. A photographic guide to the Birds of Jamaica . Chistopher Helm, London. Haynes-Sutton, A. and Sorenson, L. 2009. Caribbean Birdwatch – How to design and monitor a bird monitoring programme in the Caribbean. Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds, Boston. Haynes-Sutton, A., Sorenson, L. & Keeley, M. 2001. Wondrous West Indian Wetlands - A resource book on Caribbean wetlands for teachers and other educators. West Indian Whistling Duck Working Group of the Society of Caribbean Ornithology.

SELECTED PAPERS AND REPORTS Haynes-Sutton, A. 2009. Jamaica and Pedro and Morant Cays. In Bradley, P.E. & Norton, R.L. (eds.) An inventory of breeding seabirds of the Caribbean. University Press of Florida. Gainsville. Pp 66-76. Frost, M., Hayes, F. & Haynes-Sutton, A. 2009. Saint Vincent, the Grenadines and Grenada. An inventory of breeding seabirds of the Caribbean. University Press of Florida. Gainsville. Pp 187-194.

MEMBERSHIP OF ORGANISATIONS AND COMMITTEES (2000 onwards) 2001 - present Secretary, Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds (also Co-chair of Seabirds and Monitoring Sub-committees) 1990 – 2005 Regional Member of the Species Survival Commission, Seabird, Threatened Waterfowl Research Group, IUCN (The World Conservation Union)

LISA G. SORENSON, PH.D. Department of Biology, 5 Cummington St., Boston University, Boston, MA 02215 (508) 655-1940 (office), (617) 353-6340 (FAX), e-mail: [email protected]

PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS • Twenty-six years experience working in the Caribbean, including four years of field research on the breeding ecology of White-cheeked Pintails in the Bahamas, field research on West Indian Whistling-Ducks (WIWD) on Long Island, Bahamas, environmental assessment work, and long-term involvement with the Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds (SCSCB). • Serving as co-chair of the WIWD Working Group of the SCSCB and Project Coordinator of The WIWD and Wetlands Conservation Project since its inception in 1996 with primary responsibility for overseeing and providing leadership on the project, fund raising, coordinating communications and liaising with contacts in each country, conducting training workshops, and development of numerous outreach materials, including writing and editing of Wondrous West Indian Wetlands: Teachers’ Resource Book • Expertise in waterfowl and wetlands ecology and conservation, teaching, and bird surveying/monitoring techniques, familiar with wetland conservation threats and needs in the Bahamas and throughout the Caribbean. • Four years research experience assessing the potential consequences of global warming on wetlands and waterfowl in both breeding and wintering areas of North America (1998-2001). • With the Union of Concerned Scientists, developed and implemented outreach and communications strategies and public education on key global environmental issue such as climate change, biodiversity loss and invasive species. S EDUCATION Ph.D. Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, 1990, University of , Minneapolis, MN. Thesis title: Breeding behavior and ecology of a sedentary tropical duck: the white-cheeked pintail ( Anas bahamensis bahamensis) B.S. Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology, 1982, University of California, Davis, CA

PRESENT POSITIONS President, Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds (SCSCB), 2009-present Co-Project Coordinator, Caribbean BirdWatch: SCSCB-WHMSI Bird Monitoring Program. Coordinating the development of SCSCB’s regional bird monitoring program, including fund raising, strategy and materials development, and organizing and facilitating training workshops. 2009-present. Project Coordinator , West Indian Whistling-Duck (WIWD) and Wetlands Conservation Project. Coordinating a region-wide public education and awareness program on the endangered WIWD and the importance of wetlands in the West Indies. 1996- present. Adjunct Assistant Professor , Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA. 1998-present. Research Associate , Smithsonian Institution, National Zoological Park, Washington, D.C. 1995-present. Elective Member , American Ornithologists' Union, 1998-present.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Outreach Specialist/Scientist , Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA. Nov. 2000-2001. Developed and implemented outreach and communications strategies and public education on key global environmental issues such as climate change, biodiversity loss and invasive species. Research Assistant Professor , Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA. Project assessing the potential consequences of global warming on wetlands and waterfowl populations in the Prairie Pothole Region of the Northern . 1998-2000. Research Collaborator , Mid-Atlantic Regional Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change, part of the of the U.S. National Assessment process mandated by the U.S. Global Change Research Program. 1998–2000. Environmental Consultant , Sun International Development Limited, Nassau, Bahamas. Prepared an environmental impact statement on the proposed redevelopment of the Paradise Island Golf Course. July, 1999. Research Associate , Department of Biology/Museum of Zoology and School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1995-1997. Visiting Lecturer , School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan. Taught an upper division/graduate level course Ecology and Management of Waterfowl and Wildlife . Winter Semester, 1996. Postdoctoral Fellow , Smithsonian Institution, Conserv. and Research Center, U.S. Nat’l Zoological Park, Front Royal, VA, 1990- 1992 GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS West Indian Whistling-Duck and Wetlands Conservation Project ($953,725, 2002-2010) - Grants from US Fish and Wildlife Service (Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act Fund), USFWS (Wildlife Without Borders Program), US Environmental Protection Agency, Wetlands International, American Bird Conservancy, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, GEF-UNEP grant to BirdLife International Potential Effects of Global Warming on Waterfowl and Wetlands in the Prairie Pothole Region of the U.S. and Canada ($266,000, 1996-2000) - Grants from Institute for Wetlands and Waterfowl Research, Ducks Unlimited, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Electric Power Research Institute Post-doctoral Research on Mate Choice, Sexual Selection, and the Behavioral Endocrinology of White-cheeked Pintails and Northern Pintails, Conservation and Research Center, Smithsonian Institution ($167,000, 1990-1996) - National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Friends of the National Zoo Postdoctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution Postdoctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Studies Program

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Sorenson, L.G. 2009. Long-term Bird Monitoring in the Caribbean - Why, What, Where and How? Rainforest Alliance’s Eco-Index . http://www.eco-index.org/search/results.cfm?ProjectID=1369 Sorenson, L., A. Haynes-Sutton, F. Rivera and J. Gerbracht. 2010. Caribbean Waterbird Census Trainers’ Manual. Draft manual, Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds. May 2010. Haynes-Sutton, A., J. Alexander, F. Rivera, G. Welch, F. Hayes, J. Gerbracht, and L. Sorenson. 2009. Caribbean BirdWatch: How to Design and Implement a Bird Monitoring Programme in the Caribbean (draft SCSCB Bird Monitoring Manual). Sorenson, L. G. 2008. The West Indian Whistling-Duck and Wetlands Conservation Project. Rainforest Alliance’s Eco-Index . http://www.eco-index.org/search/results.cfm?projectID=979 . Winner of “Are We Making Progress Yet?” Award for best monitoring and evaluation methodology (May 2006). Sorenson, L. Bradley, P., Mugica, L., and K. Wallace. 2005. West Indian Whistling-Duck and Wetlands Conservation Project: Symposium Report and Project News. The Journal of Caribbean Ornithology 18: 102-105. Sorenson, L., Wallace, K., and L Mugica. 2005. Education, Awareness and Community Training Initiatives—Expanding on What Works and Ideas for New Initiatives. The Journal of Caribbean Ornithology 18: 84-86. Sorenson, L.G. 2005. The White-cheeked Pintail (species account) in Bird Families of the World: Ducks, Geese, Swans . Edited by J. Kear, Oxford University Press. Sorenson, L.G., Bradley, P.E. and M. Haynes Sutton. 2004. The West Indian Whistling-Duck and Wetlands Conservation Project: a model for species and wetlands conservation and education. The Journal of Caribbean Ornithology, Special Issue pp. 72-80. Sutton, A.H. Sorenson, L.G., and Keeley, M. 2004. Second Edition. Wondrous West Indian Wetlands: Teachers’ Resource Book . West Indian Whistling-Duck Working Group of the Society of Caribbean Ornithology. Boston, MA, 276 pp. Sorenson, L.G. and P. Bradley. 2002. News from the West Indian Whistling-Duck (WIWD) and Wetlands Conservation Project. El Pitirre 15: 137-139. Anderson, M.G. and Sorenson, L.G. 2002. Global Climate Change and Waterfowl: Adaptation in the Face of Uncertainty. Transactions of the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference 66: 300-319 . Sorenson, L.G. and L. Hunter. 2002. West Indian Whistling-Duck and Wetlands Conservation Project. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Wildlife Without Borders Spring 2002: 8-9. Sorenson, L.G., Goldberg, R., Anderson , M.G., Root, T.L., and C. Rosenzweig. 2001. Potential Impacts of Global Warming on Pothole Wetlands and Waterfowl. in Impacts of Climate Change on Wildlife . Edited by R. Green, M. Harley, M. Spalding, and C. Zockler. Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Bedford, UK. Sorenson, L.G. 2000. Impacts of Global Warming on Waterfowl Wintering in the Chesapeake Bay. Pg. 208-213 in : Fisher, A. et al. Preparing for a Changing Climate—the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change: Mid-Atlantic Foundations Report . Prepared for U.S. Global Change Research Program First National Assessment, sponsored by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cooperative Agreement CR 826554, Pennsylvania State University, University Park. Sorenson, L.G. and P. Bradley. 2000. Update on the West Indian Whistling-Duck (WIWD) and Wetlands Conservation Project — Report from the WIWD Working Group. El Pitirre 13: 57-63. Sorenson, L.G., Goldberg, R., Root, T.L., and M.G. Anderson. 1998. Potential effects of global warming on waterfowl populations breeding in the Northern Great Plains. Climatic Change 40: 343-369. Sorenson, L.G. & S.R. Derrickson. 1994. Sexual selection in the Northern Pintail ( Anas acuta ): the importance of female choice versus male-male competition in the evolution of sexually-selected traits. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 35: 389-400. Sorenson, L.G. 1994. Forced extra-pair copulation and mate guarding in the White-cheeked Pintail: timing and trade-offs in an asynchronously breeding duck. Behaviour 48: 519-533. Sorenson, L.G. 1992. Variable mating system of a sedentary tropical duck: the White-cheeked Pintail ( Anas bahamensis bahamensis ). Auk 109: 277-292.

JEFF GERBRACHT Cornell University Lab of Ornithology (607) 254-2117 159 Sapsucker Woods Road [email protected] Ithaca, NY, 14850

Education Purdue University Wildlife Management BS 1986

Professional Experience 2005-present Software Architect, Lead Software Engineer: Information Science, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 2009-present Project Advisor and Workshop Co-facilitator: Caribbean BirdWatch Monitoring Program, Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds, assisting with development of SCSCB-WHMSI Regional Bird Monitoring Program 2001-2005 Software Developer: Information Science, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 1997-2001 Project Manager, Software Developer, Software Architect: SABRE 1992-1997 Project Manager: American Airlines, SABRE

Present Activities at Cornell Lab of Ornithology eBird Project Management —manage software engineers, web designers, user interface experts, and database administrators to design, develop, and maintain eBird , an online, protocol-based citizen science application used by thousands of birdwatchers and ornithologists around the world to monitor birds and bird populations. eBird incorporates a number of visualizations and reports that are used in conservation and adaptive management of birds and biodiversity. Breeding Bird Atlas —Design, develop and manage the Breeding Bird Atlas application which currently gathers and manages the Breeding Bird Atlas programs for five states. Software Architect —Design and develop hardware and software infrastructure for online citizen science applications. This infrastructure supports many online citizen science data collection and reporting projects including Project FeederWatch, Project NestWatch, Great Backyard Bird Count, eBird, and Breeding Bird Atlases for several states. These applications engage birders with a variety of experience across the hemisphere to collect bird observations and become citizen scientists by assisting in bird monitoring. Online Scientific Publishing —Created infrastructure and manage the architecture and application for online publishing of Neotropical Birds online, a moderated wiki for creating and publishing definitive accounts of the life histories of all Neotropcal bird species.

Web Sites Produced web-based tools and resources for educators, scientists, and citizen scientists. Roles include project lead, principal architect, software engineer, and project manager. eBird . www..org. Avian Knowledge Network . www.avianknowledge.net. Breeding Bird Atlas. bird.atlasing.org Neotropical Birds Online . Neotropical.birds.cornell.edu

Publications and Presentations

Sorenson, L., A. Haynes-Sutton, F. Rivera and J. Gerbracht. 2010. Caribbean Waterbird Census Trainers’ Manual. Draft manual, Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds. May 2010. eBird and Citizen Science. Mapping for Conservation Organizations Workshop, ESRI, March 2010. Haynes-Sutton, A., J. Alexander, F. Rivera, G. Welch, F. Hayes, J. Gerbracht, and L. Sorenson. 2009. Caribbean BirdWatch: How to Design and Implement a Bird Monitoring Programme in the Caribbean (draft SCSCB Bird Monitoring Manual). Gerbracht, J. The Avian Knowledge Network: Organizing the Many Data Resources of the Bird Monitoring Community. SCSCB Bird Monitoring Workshops, Negril, Jamaica, February 2010 and Nassau, Bahamas, February, 2009. Gerbracht, J. eBird as a Level One Monitoring Tool for the Caribbean. SCSCB Bird Monitoring Workshops, Negril, Jamaica, February 2010 and Nassau, Bahamas, February, 2009. Gerbracht, J. and T. Schulenberg. An Introduction to Neotropical Birds Online. 17 th Regional Meeting of the Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds (SCSCB), Antigua, July, 2009. Gerbracht, J. eBird and Bird Monitoring. 17 th Regional Meeting of the SCSCB, Antigua, July, 2009. Gerbracht, J. Building a Local Bird Specimen Collection. 17 th Regional Meeting of the SCSCB, Antigua, July, 2009. Gerbracht, J. Species Profile Model from an Avian Perspective. Taxonomic Database Working Group Annual Meeting, 2008. Wood, C. and J. Gerbracht. eBird and the Avian Knowledge Network. 16 th Regional Meeting of the SCSCB, San Juan, Puerto Rico, July 2007. Gerbracht, J. Conducting a Breeding Bird Atlas in the 21 st Century, North American Ornithological Conference, October, 2006.