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In search of Diablo0n one of the world's rarest birds and its unlikely stronghold in Hai: JULIE HART PROGRAM IN ECOLOGY & ZOOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING

In Search of Diablotín: One of the world's rarest birds and its unlikely stronghold in Haiti

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In  search  of  Diablo0n  one  of  the  world's  rarest  birds  and  its  unlikely  stronghold  in  Hai:  

 

JULIE  HART  PROGRAM  IN  ECOLOGY  &  ZOOLOGY  AND  PHYSIOLOGY  UNIVERSITY  OF  WYOMING  

DIABLOTÍN:  BLACK-­‐CAPPED  PETREL  (Pterodroma  hasitata)  

Hasitata  =  hesita:on  Diablo0n  =  devil  

BREEDING  RANGE  

5,000  birds?  =  ENDANGERED  Mar:nique  

Guadeloupe  Dominica  

NATURAL  HISTORY  

Courtship:  December  Nes:ng:  Jan-­‐Feb  Nest  site:  cliff  burrow  

How  do  you  conserve  Black-­‐capped  Petrel?  

SEARCH  LOCATIONS  

La  Visite  –  13  km  escarpment,  600  acres  forest  

PIC  MACAYA  

REMOTENESS  

Pic  Formon  (7100  d)  

Pic  Macaya  (7600  d)  

Formon  Village  (3300  d)  

Saddle  (6000  d)  

SEARCH  LOCATIONS  

How  do  you  conserve  a    difficult  to  detect  rare  seabird  whose  last  breeding  stronghold    is  in  the  poorest  country    in  the  western  hemisphere?    

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Ques:ons?