Community-based bird monitoring in the tropics

This critically endangered bald ibis was satellite tagged in the Syrian desert and traced by Cagan and researchers from the Ethiopian Wildlife and Natural History Society to a remote Ethiopian location. Image © Cagan Sekercioglu.

Cagan’s new Biological Conservation paper highlights the importance of tackling major knowledge gaps on birds in the tropics. Although most species are found in the tropics, little research or monitoring is done there. Yet the need for monitoring and research on tropi...