Species Working Group Webinars

Monthly Species Working Group Webinar Series

R2R is focused on recovering the most rapidly declining birds in the U.S. and Canada by supporting species-focused teams. View recordings of our monthly webinar series highlighting the work of these groups below. Visit our ‘News & Events’ page for information on upcoming webinars.

August 2025

Justin Springer (Re:wild, https://www.rewild.org/) and Justin Saunders (Jamaica Environment Trust, https://www.jamentrust.org/) talked to the Road to Recovery team about conservation coordination, implementation, and community involvement during our monthly webinar series.


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July 2025

When salt touches the sky: Study & Conservation of Wilson’s phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor)

Pablo Gigy Gregoret shared his work on the study and conservation of Wilson’s Phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor) across South America’s saline lakes.


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June 2025

Fernando Medrano with Red de Observadores de Aves y Vida Silvestre de Chile (RCO; Chilean Bird and Wildlife Observers Network) – Advances and challenges in the conservation of storm petrels that nest in the Atacama Desert


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April 2025

Sarah Kendrick – Range-wide Wood Thrush Motus-tagging Project


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Due to a technical issue, the Spanish version of the presentation was not recorded correctly. We apologize for the inconvenience and its unavailability.

 

May 2025

Chrissy Kondrat and Corrie Borgman – A Binationation Effort to Conserve Bendire’s and LeConte’s Thrashers


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March 2025

Patricio Mena-Olmedo – Monitoring Program for Migratory Birds at Fundación Jocotoco and Its Interdisciplinary Approach


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The first portion of the presentation is missing from the English recording, we apologize.


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February 2025

Osvel Hinojosa-Huerta, Andreina Pernia, and Victor Ayala Pérez – Shorebird conservation through capacity building at the flyway scale: five years of the Coastal Solutions Fellows Program


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January 2025

Tom Will – Using the R2R Framework to Guide and Assess Yellow-billed Cuckoo Progress toward Recovery


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December 2024

Jeff Walters – The Recovery of the Red-Cockaded Woodpecker: Homology with the R2R Vision


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November 2024

Amy Chabot – Collaborative Recovery Efforts for the Loggerhead Shrike: 2013-2024


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October 2024

Brandt Ryder and Chris Latimer – Leveraging multi-disciplinary data to identify and target strategic grassland bird conservation


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September 2024

Steve Roels – The Evolution of the Kirtland’s Warbler Conservation Team in the Post-Delisting Era


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June 2024

Yvan Satgé and Jennifer Wheeler – From Lost to Listed – Conservation Milestones for the Black-capped Petrel (Pterodroma hasitata)


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May 2024

Calandra Stanley – Tracking Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus) progress along the Road to Recovery


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April 2024

Amber Roth – Road to Recovery for the Golden-winged Warbler


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March 2024

Clay Green – Implementation of the Reddish Egret Conservation Plan


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February 2024

Randy Dettmers and Elizabeth Hunter – Identifying remaining critical demographic information gaps and developing a full annual cycle population model for Cerulean Warblers


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January 2024

Michael Green and Ken Popper – Western Yellow Rail Working Group organization and progress


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December 2023

David Yeany and Matt Young  – Evening Grosbeak: Initiating Continental Research and Conservation for a Steeply Declining Irruptive Migrant


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November 2023

Katie Christie and Kelly Srigley Werner – Lesser Yellowlegs Research and Conservation: Filling Knowledge Gaps while Moving to Action.


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October 2023

Thomas Ryan – The status of Least Tern Populations in California and Northwest Mexico


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