Project type: Monitoring

BBMP Recommendations Met: 18

Purpose/objectives: Refuge management hopes to locate southwestern willow flycatchers found on the refuge in order to determine the best ways to assist this species in its recovery.

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Southwestern Willow Flycatchers.
Photographs courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service archives.

Background: The southwestern willow flycatcher (Empidonax traillii extimus) is a federally listed endangered species. By determining population numbers, preferred nesting, feeding, and mating habitat, Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge (Refuge) staff will be able to restore these declining habitats and preserve already existing ones.

Benefits: This project will result in a coordinated monitoring program to assess the population numbers and ecological requirements of the southwestern willow flycatcher. It is hoped that the monitoring program will result in improved management of the endangered species of bird by Refuge staff. Knowledge and improved management techniques gained by Refuge staff may also be transferred to other natural resource managers in the Middle Rio Grande Valley and elsewhere.

General project location: Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge

Approximate project size: 200 acres

Period of performance: 2001-2002

Sponsoring agency: Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge

Primary contact information:
Terry Tadano
Refuge Manager
Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge
PO Box 1248
Socorro, New Mexico 87801
Ph: 505-864-4021
Fax: 505-864-7761
Terry_Tadano@fws.gov

Project or agency websites:
http://southwest.fws.gov/refuges/newmex/sevilleta.html
http://rmawildlifesociety.org/sevilleta.html

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