US-Brazil workshop on establishing Aves Internacionales, the first network on bird migration research in South America: Campos do Jordao, Brazil, August 2010

由于候鸟跨越政治和文化边界，它们的研究和保护需要国家和文化之间的合作。这种合作在北半球现在很常见，但在南美却因为沟通障碍、缺乏标准化和缺乏资金而落后。为了克服这些障碍并促进对南美洲鸟类迁徙的国际研究，该奖项支持举办一次研讨会，以组建国际鸟类网络(葡萄牙语：“Rede Aves Internacion ais”；西班牙语：“Red Aves Internaconales”)。该讲习班由巴西利亚大学(巴西)的Miguel Marini、布宜诺斯艾利斯大学(阿根廷)的Victor Cueto和玻利维亚自然诺埃尔·坎普夫·梅尔卡多博物馆的Ana Maria Mamani共同组织，将与2010年8月在巴西Jordão坎波斯举行的第25届国际鸟类学大会(IOC)同时举行。研讨会参与者提出的研究主题将围绕两个相互关联的目标：(1)开发关于南美鸟类迁徙的假说并收集数据来检验这些假说，(2)测试关于南美和北美鸟类迁徙如何不同的假说。这两个目标结合在一起，将为了解新大陆鸟类迁徙的方式和原因提供一个新的、地理上更广阔的视角。该研讨会旨在根据任何一个研究小组都无法回答的问题制定研究议程，但这些问题需要整个北美和南美洲的国际合作。参与者将来自阿根廷、玻利维亚、巴西、哥伦比亚和美国，其中将包括由美国国家科学基金会资助的研究北半球移民的项目Migrate的活跃成员。研讨会的许多参与者将是学生或年轻的专业人员，他们亲自致力于促进与国际同事的长期伙伴关系。讲习班将有助于增进对气候变化、土地利用模式和禽类疾病传播等社会相关问题的了解，还将在北美和南美洲开展一系列以教育为基础的活动。

Because migratory birds travel across political and cultural boundaries, their study and conservation requires collaboration between countries and cultures. Such collaboration is now commonplace in the Northern Hemisphere, but it has lagged behind in South America due to obstacles in communication, lack of standardization, and lack of funds. To overcome these obstacles and catalyze international research on bird migration in South America, this award supports a workshop to form the Aves Internacionales Network (in Portuguese: "Rede Aves Internacionais"; in Spanish: "Red Aves Internacionales"). The workshop, which is co-organized by Miguel Marini of the Universidade de Brasilia (Brazil), Victor Cueto of the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina), and Ana Maria Mamani of the Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado (Bolivia), will coincide with the 25th International Ornithological Congress (IOC) in Campos do Jordão, Brazil, in August 2010. Research topics generated by workshop participants will center around two interrelated goals: (1) developing hypotheses on bird migration in South America and collecting data to test those hypotheses, and (2) testing hypotheses on how bird migration differs in South and North America. In combination, these two goals will provide a new, geographically broader perspective about how and why New World birds migrate. This workshop aims to develop a research agenda based on questions that cannot be answered by any single research group, but which require international collaboration across North and South America. Participants will be drawn from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, and the United States, and will include active members of MIGRATE, a NSF-funded program to study migration in the Northern Hemisphere. Many of the workshop participants will be students or young professionals, personally committed to fostering long-term partnerships with international colleagues. The workshop will contribute to knowledge about socially relevant issues such as climate change, land-use patterns, and the avian spread of diseases, and will also generate a series of education-based activities in both North and South America.