A New Approach to Protect a Rare Songbird
October 11, 2012LAKE PLACID, NY – Launching a new effort to protect the rare Bicknell's Thrush, an alliance of North American scientists and conservationists is taking the unusual step of financing a team of Dominican biologists to work in the migratory songbird's Caribbean wintering habitat. The Bicknell's Thrush Habitat Protection Fund at the Adirondack Community Trust has awarded a $5,000 grant to Grupo Jaragua, whose biologists will study the thrush in forested mountains on the Dominican Republic's border with Haiti. The grant recognizes a need to study this songbird across its entire range, particularly in its threatened winter destinations. Read more »
Saving a Rare Songbird – Hemispheric Conservation Plan for Bicknell’s Thrush
July 29, 2010White River Junction, VT – An international conservation group today unveiled a plan to protect one of North America’s most rare and vulnerable songbirds, the Bicknell’s thrush, across its entire range from Canada to the Caribbean. The International Bicknell’s Thrush Conservation Group (IBTCG), an alliance of scientists, conservationists and governments, proposes to increase the global population of Bicknell’s thrush by 25 percent over the next 50 years, mostly by preventing further loss of its breeding and wintering habitats. Read more »
