Please Join us for a seminar featuring:

Dr. Irene Ruvalcaba Ortega

Laboratory of Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development
Faculty of Biological Sciences
Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León

When: Nov. 2nd, at 1:00p
Where: Denver Campus, North Class Room, Rm 2001
and via Zoom.  Please email Jacki.Craig for the link.

Everyone is welcome to the Seminar

Grassland birds of the Chihuahuan Desert in Mexico: a 15-year journey

Grassland birds in North America have shown important population declines for more than 50 years, mainly due to the loss and degradation of their habitat. Such a tendency and the fact that most breeding grassland birds of the Great Plains overwinter in the Chihuahuan Desert (CHD), ignited the study of such populations in the CHD since 2006, especially in Mexico. Unknowns on distribution, densities, survival, home range, sex ratios, and genetic diversity of wintering grassland birds have been unveiled. Resident birds of the CHD have also been studied, particularly the endemic Worthen’s Sparrow and the southernmost Mountain Plover breeding population.