Adventures in Costa Rica: Developing a Baseline for Avian Biodiversity in Southern Costa Rica

In an international field study, this project identified two primary objectives. The first was to familiarize the researcher with the environment, methods, and techniques used in the Costa Rica wildlife projects of ProCAT. After successful mastery of the first, the second objective was to use that knowledge to gather preliminary acoustic data in the southern region of Costa Rica. The data was analyzed for call type to identify species represented on the recordings. This information can be used to establish a 2024 baseline for avian diversity in these regions. An established baseline of biodiversity at a fixed timepoint enables effective and quantitative measures of change over time for future research and conservation.