Saving our Shared Birds Luis Morales - San Pancho Birding Club
January 21, 2012

Partners in Flight (PIF) is a Tri-national (Canada, US, Mexico) organization which has the mission of conserving our shared birds in these countries (more than 1,150 species of birds, including 882 native landbird species), which requires a continental, and ultimately hemispheric, perspective and a commitment to international cooperation.

As part of this continental initiative, a PIF's Western Working Group has been created in order to achieve the goal of effective conservation of birds and their habitats on the western slope of Canada, continental United States and Mexico. Some of the organizations widely involved in this group are The Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory, the Sonoran Joint Venture, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Canada Environment, CONABIO's Initiative for the Conservation of North American Birds (Mexico's National Commission for Biodiversity) and the Point Reyes Bird Observatory, to name a few.

Recently, the PIF's Western Working Group had its annual meeting at Mazatlan, Sinaloa, and they were very supportive of the idea of creating a "San Pancho Bird Observatory". This is an organization that will include a field-station and headquarters in town that will have some of these goals:

• Promoting bird-oriented environmental education and scientific training with special emphasis on the local community.

• Perform research on migratory and resident bird species.

• Promote volunteer service of groups, individuals, NGO`s and academic institutions.

• Support other productive projects and NGO's related to conservation in the community and the region.

• An initiative to build and connect local, regional and tri-national capacities related to bird conservation.

If you live, have visited or will visit the San Pancho, Nayarit area and have questions, proposals or comments to support and enrich this initiative please contact Luis Morales at birdingsanpancho@gmail.com.

Gracias!

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