Job Opening - Climate Change Outreach Coordinator
The Climate Change Outreach Coordinator will represent Audubon's Global Warming Campaign in New Mexico. The Coordinator will identify, recruit, and mobilize Audubon and other activists to work to pass federal and state legislation to reduce global warming pollution and encourage energy efficiency and renewable energy. More generally, the position entails grassroots communication, training, and organizing on specific global warming issues. This is a part-time position beginning in August 2008.

Volunteers Needed at Randall Davey Audubon Center
in the Nature Store, landscaping and/or trail maintenance, detailed bird courses, guided walks about geology/wildflowers/night sky/etc., docents for tours of the Randall Davey house and studio, with our educational programs in assisting with classes or prep for camp.

A NEW WATCHLIST

The United States WatchList, a joint project between American Bird Conservancy (ABC) and the National Audubon Society, reflects a comprehensive analysis of all the bird species in the United States. It reveals those in greatest need of immediate conservation attention to survive a convergence of environmental challenges, including habitat loss, invasive species, and global warming. The list builds on the species assessments conducted for many years by Partners in Flight (PIF) on landbirds, using those same PIF standards, but expanded to cover species of all taxa. The list is based on the latest available research and assessments from the bird conservation community, along with data from the Christmas Bird Count and Breeding Bird Survey.

The WatchList 2007 identifies 217 species. It is divided into 59 continental and 39 Hawaiian Red-list species of greatest concern. New Mexico Red-list species include: Gunnison Sage-Grouse, Lesser Prairie-chicken, Least Tern, Mountain Plover, Piping Plover, Spotted Owl, Lewis-s Woodpecker, Bell’s Vireo, Black-chinned Sparrow, and Baird’s Sparrow. Yellow-list species are still of conservation concern, but not to the extreme level of those on the Red List. The Yellow List is further divided into declining species that may currently be widespread and relatively abundant, but are facing significant threats and undergoing population declines such as Piñon Jay and Scaled Quail, and rare species such as the Flammulated Owl and Brown-capped Rosy-Finch, whose populations may be stable and not facing extreme threats, but which have small ranges and small population sizes.

Identifying and spotlighting the species at greatest risk is the first step in building the public policies, funding support, conservation initiatives and public commitment needed to save them. The WatchList lays the groundwork for an industry standard to guide conservation priorities among conservation organizations and government agencies.

Audubon and ABC will use materials, including state-focused fact sheets, to help mobilize concerned citizens to become involved in local, regional, and national activities that can make a difference for these imperiled birds—and for other wildlife and the habitat that sustains us all.

See the full WatchList at: http://www.abcbirds.org/abcprograms/science/watchlist/index.html.

Taken from the Newsletter of the Sangre de Cristo Audubon Society, http://www.newmexicoaudubon.org/sdcas/march_2008.pdf.

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