Birds

Birds


We need:

Someone to teach us:


 * mist netting (using large, fine nets to safely capture birds, for identification, counting, and banding)
 * identification
 * about tropical birds

What the people need:
 * binoculars

Threats to birds and other wildlife:


 * Forest Fires
 * poaching and illegal deforesting
 * Uncontrolled mass tourism (along with increased predation of birds and bird eggs by predators attracted by trash)

__Resources:__

http://www.stlouisaudubon.org/ 1257 Takara Court St. Louis, MO 63131 314-579-9227 Torrey Berger, President

About Mist Netting: http://biology.kenyon.edu/courses/Biol262/MistNetting.html

Wildlife Reserves: http://www.wcs.org/international/latinamerica/mesoamerica/guatemala