By Andrew Seligman | Volunteer
Your support really matters for migratory birds. Thank you for helping us to monitor the willow flycatcher and other species wintering in Central America.
Over the past four months, your support enabled us to visit three separate wetland sites in the dry forests of Eastern El Salvador on a monthly basis. There, we registered 45 willow flycatchers observations, including 8 individual birds at one site. In addition, dozens of migratory and resident species were documented such as the painted bunting, western tanager, yellow warbler, and scissort-tail flycather. One site, the Laguna de Jocotal, did not register the flycatcher until March which may indicate that this wetland is used late in the season when other wetland sites dry up or when the birds are traveling northward.
The observers included local community rangers at Olomega Lake, and three students who are shadowing the primary ornithologist Nestor Herrera to learn about the willow flycatcher and techniques in bird monitoring. This will help to build the local capacity to study and protect birds in eastern El Salvador.
Thank you again for making this work possible. Happy birding!
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