Bexar Audubon South Central Texas: Bird Conservation: What’s good for the bird..

Explore grassland bird conservation across native and human-altered landscapes with a presenter who bridges the gap between ranching and ecology. Drawing from her childhood on a cattle ranch, she has led critical conservation efforts for grassland species in the Trans-Pecos region of Texas and Central Florida, leading to her major role in the National Geographic short film, The Little Brown Bird.

Fabiola “Fabby” Baeza-Tarin is a conservation ecologist specializing in the acquisition of conservation lands and the conservation of rare and imperiled species. Fabby was born and raised in the border town of Ojinaga, Chihuahua, Mexico at her family’s cattle ranch. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Biology and Master’s degree in Range and Wildlife Management from Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas. For her master’s thesis, she worked under Borderlands Research Institute to investigate overwinter habitat requirements of two grassland bird specialists that have experienced steep population declines, Baird’s Sparrow and Grasshopper Sparrow on a ranch in Marfa, Texas. Upon graduation, she moved to Florida where she worked as a Research Assistant in the Avian Ecology Program at Archbold Biological Station, overseeing a population of the critically endangered Florida Grasshopper Sparrow at the DeLuca Preserve. In 2022, she served as a spokesperson for the Florida Wildlife Corridor campaign, Live Wildly Florida, a public awareness initiative promoting the protection and connection of 18 million acres of critical habitat across the state. Currently, she is the Director of Avian Ecology at Common Ground Ecology, where she focuses on the conservation of rare and imperiled species and their habitats.

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