Laredo BioBlitz 2014! Starts at 6 p.m. this evening at the Lost Lakes. - Mammalogists and herpetologists will set up traps tonight and count species tomorrow morning. - Ichthyologists from San Marcos (Texas State) will begin doing prelim work at the ponds on fish populations, and will continue their work on the river tomorrow. - Three expert Laredo birders – as well as a half dozen students from the newly formed United High School Birding Club, led by teacher Glenda Campos Barrera – will do the ornithological species count. - Botanists and urban foresters coming in from the RG Valley will do an inventory of all plant life. - Entymologists from the Valley will also study the insect population. Some of these out of town scientists will bring college students; others will come solo. All of them will be joining scientists from Laredo – some of whom are specialists in spiders, scorpions, plants, mammals, amphibians and reptiles. Local scientists will be working with about 25 college students, many of whom are graduate students in biology. It will be a fairly small BioBlitz for us this year, with about 45 total people in the field doing a species count of all living organisms in that roughly 80-acre tract of river vega land. We are very excited, and look forward to discovering what type of wildlife is abundant, and maybe not so abundant, in this stretch of the Rio Grande. We will compile and report all data collected into an official report that we will send to the City of Laredo, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, TCEQ and the U.S. EPA. Of course, we will provide a full report to all of you too! The RGISC BioBlitz planning committee – which was very capably led by our RGISC college intern Erika Saenz – is grateful to all who joined us in this unique Laredo count of living organisms in this richly abundant eco-system by the river. Muchisimas gracias!
Posted on: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 21:05:00 +0000
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