This past fall, Manomet recently guided a team of 15 specialists and students from 7 partner organizations on a 10-day onsite workshop to observe shorebird use along the Brazilian Amazon River. The activities in Brazil are part of a larger project to understand how many shorebirds use the Amazon Basin rivers as stopover sites, and how they distribute themselves in this region, which is greater than two-thirds of the continental United States. Preliminary efforts were conducted in Peru in 2022, but this workshop was the first time surveys were conducted in Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador (in addition to Peru).
Join Juliana Bosi de Almeida, Ph.D., Managing Director of Flyways, and Arne Lesterhuis, Senior Shorebird Conservation Specialist, as they present about this exciting, first-of-its-kind shorebird workshop. Our partners on the survey included the Brazilian National Institute for Amazon Research (INPA), Point Blue, the U.S. Forest Service, University of Massachusetts, SAVE Brasil, Corbidi, and Asociación Calidris. During the workshop, the team compared and contrasted the habitats found in the different countries, while also assessing habitats and shorebirds found along the Solimões River (the Brazilian name for the upper Amazon River).