Yvonne & Tom - I don't have all my files here,
but the one article I have on my desk at the
moment by Russ Greenberg et al., titled
"Managed forest patches and the
conservation of migratory birds in Chiapas,
Mexico" lists the solitary vireo and northern
oriole as present in shade coffee plantations.
The other species listed were more eastern,
such as wood thrush, magnolia warbler,
black-throated green warbler,
chestnut-sided warber, american redstart,
hooded warbler, ovenbird, summer tanager,
etc. I'll dig up my files from home to see what
I can produce as far as a list of
Washington/Oregon migrants in various
shade coffee plantations in Mexico and
Central America, if you'd like. (The study
above was in "Conservation of Neotropical
Migratory Birds in Mexico", edited by M. H.
Wilson and S. A Sader, from a Partners in
Flight symposium held in Mexico in November
of 1993. Copies are available from the
Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment
Station as Misc. Pub. #727, sorry, I don't
know a phone #).
Kelly A. Bettinger
Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife
Habitat Management Program
Species-Habitat Project
600 Capitol Way North
Olympia, WA 98501-1091
360-902-2604
bettikab at dfw.wa.gov

>>> "Tom Schooley" <dunlin at mail.tss.net>
08/12/97 10:22am >>>
Yvonne, That is an excellent question.

The Partners-in-Flight project is studying the
populations of neo-tropical
migrants. In Washington contact the US Fish
& Wildlife Service, or the
Seattle Audubon Society for more
information.


Tom Schooley, Olympia WA ,
dunlin at mail.tss.net

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> From: ravenn at premier1.net
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Migrating birds and coffee
> Date: Tuesday, August 12, 1997 1:49 AM
>
> Tweeters,
> I've had some interesting questions arise
from customers when they
> see our Shade-grown Coffee display. The
display advertises "Coffee for
> the Birds" so of course most of my
customers first responses are "I
> didn't know birds drank coffee!"
>
> I then go into the discussion on habitat
loss and what shade grown
> coffee does for migrating song birds. And
so most people then want to
> tie in the benefits with species we have
here. I've done a little
> research but not enough and I was
wondering if any of you out there know
> which of our migrating species actually
migrate far enough South to
> benefit from the Shade-grown coffee
plantations.
>
> Yvonne Bombardier
> Everett, Wa
> ravenn at premier1.net