Population Monitoring

The WHSRN Executive Office coordinates the Central American Waterbird Census (CAWC), a citizen-science initiative to monitor shorebirds and waterbirds in all seven countries of Central America. [...]

Do Willets spend the winter at your WHSRN site? Can you help identify Willet photos to subspecies? Click here to find out how you can participate in this project. We need your help to find [...]

ISS data are crucial to documenting wide-scale population trends, informing management decisions, monitoring designated WHSRN sites and supporting the nomination of new ones. Migration season is [...]

Last year, WHSRN helped identify Venezuela's most important sites for shorebirds. But what has to happen for those sites to become WHSRN reserves? This March, WHSRN taught a course to engage [...]

This January, a team conducted aerial surveys of the rufa Red Knot population wintering in Tierra del Fuego. They counted 15% more individuals than were recorded at the same time last year. The [...]