Subject: el salvador
Date: Feb 10 13:23:02 2001
From: Li, Kevin - Kevin.Li at METROKC.GOV


I made several working trips to El salvador in the early 90s, and kept an
eye out for birds as I worked on the coast on the Bay of Jiquilisco. Egrets,
black necked stilts, anis, and nighthawks were my frequent companions. I met
a number of students at the National University who eagerly offered to guide
me to their favorite birding areas, but I was always too busy to take them
up on it. A friend of mine just became head of the Biology Dept, and she
might be able to make some suggestions. I never got far from the coast, but
would have wanted to see the mountains to the NW had there been a chance.

The recent earthquake was a major one, with damages said to exceed those of
Hurricane Mitch. El Salvador seems to be the last place on the itinerary for
birders in Central America, but the Salvadorean birders are very proud of
what they do have. San Salvador does have a local Audubon chapter; this
information may have changed, this is from 8 years ago:

Asociacion Audubon de El Salvador
Condominio Montemaria, I. A.
1A Calle Poniente #2904
21 Planta, local 2
San Salvador El Salvador

Milagro Harrouch
Doctora Inez Lopez
Mario Vasquez
Phone: 503 298 0811

If you're going down there, any donations of optics or field guides are
eagerly and graciously accepted by students and environmental groups; Hazel
Wolf brought an assortment of such items to the Salvadorean Audubon reps at
a Florida meeting, and she told me they were very excited over doubling
their library by having just two more field guides. If you have room to
carry donated goods, let me know and I'll round up something. I carried the
guide from the Peterson series, written primarily for Mexico, as I recall.

My friends in El Salvador often asked me to bring coffee from the states;
all the good stuff gets exported!
There are a few tour books, I have one or two; I might be able to loan them
to you if you can't find them.

Kevin Li
Ballard, WA
e-mail: kevin.li at metrokc.gov

-----Original Message-----
From: david b. williams [mailto:wingate at seanet.com]
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 8:26 AM
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: el salvador


Greetings. I was wondering if anyone has been birding in El Salvador and if
they have any recommendations. Locations. Books.

Any thoughts would be grand.

Cheers,
David Williams
Licton Springs drainage, Seattle

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