Important Bird Areas in Guatemala

Knut Eisermann and Claudia Avendaño coordinated under the unbrella of Sociedad Guatemalteca de Ornitología the identification of Important Bird Areas in Guatemala, an iniciative of BirdLife International. Our data on the local bird diversity (collected under the umbrella of the former PROEVAL RAXMU Bird Monitoring Program) served as base for the identification of Important Bird Areas throughout the country.

See BirdLife's directory of IBAs in the Americas, with a chapter on Guatemalan IBAs:
Eisermann, K. & C. Avendaño (2009) Guatemala. Pp. 235-242 In: C. Devenish, D. F. Diaz Fernández, R. P. Clay, I. Davidson & I. Y. Zabala (eds.) Important Bird Areas Americas, priority sites for biodiversity conservation. BirdLife Conservation Series 16. Birdlife International, Quito, Ecuador. PDF

Article on Guatemalan IBAs in the Proceedings of the Fourth International Partners in Flight Conference, McAllen, TX:
Eisermann, K. & C. Avendaño (2009) Conservation priority-setting in Guatemala through the identification of Important Bird Areas. Proceedings of the Fourth International Partners in Flight Conference, Tundra to Tropics: 315-327. PDF

Illustrated article on Guatemalan IBAs in the journal Neotropical Birding:
Eisermann, K. & C. Avendaño (2009) Important Bird Areas of the Neotropics: Guatemala. Neotropical Birding 5: 4-11. PDF