Project Overview

Birds are engaging, cost-efficient and reliable indicators of biodiversity and environmental sustainability.

Euphonia Luteicapilla

Using Birds as Indicators of Biodiversity

to changes in their surroundings. This makes them highly reliable and scalable (farm to landscape) indicators of environmental health. Furthermore, birds are colorful, sing, and are easily identifiable by anyone with a minimum amount of training.

 2019 Achievements

Our projected impact on coffee communities over the three-year stage of the project

Birds & Biodiversity

  • Colombia

    174 bird species

    Costa Rica

    188 bird species

  • Colombia

    5,666 birds observed
    690 bird lists

    Costa Rica

    7,454 birds observed
    627     bird lists

  • Colombia

    11,450 hours of nature sound recordings

    Costa Rica

    12,024 hours of nature sound recordings

Benefitting Coffee Communities

  • Colombia

    40 farming families involved in citizen science

    Costa Rica

    40 farming families involved in citizen science

  • Colombia

    80 Social Progress Index surveys in progress

    Costa Rica

    80 Social Progress Index surveys in progress

  • Colombia

    250 children participating in our Environmental Education program

    Costa Rica

    210 children participating in our Environmental Education program

  • Capacity building curriculum for birding and sustainable tourism in coffee communities

  • Environmental Education curriculum for children in coffee communities

  • Further impact

    2 Master students and 2 Bachelor students of Biology supported in their studies