Multi-Ethnic Bird Guide of the Subantarctic Forests of South America

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

213 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Acknowledgments for the first edition of this book in 2003: As it was said in the Introduction, this guide is a collective work that is possible thanks to the fact that birds, forested ecosystems and very diverse people exist. In particular, the authors sincerely thank the following individuals and organizations: Mario Chiguay, President of the Indigenous Yahgan Community of Bahía Mejillones, and all the other members of the community who collaborated in this project, especially Julia González; Manuel Muñoz, Advisor to the Chiloé Council of Chiefs, the members of the Huilliche communities in Chanquin and Huentemó, the school teachers of Chanquin and Mr. Francisco Delgado, Chiloé National Park, who encourage and helped the initiation of this project; The poet Lorenzo Aillapan, who teaches in the Pullümapukimunweftuy Mapuche Academy in Puerto Saavedra, a cultural center which this guide hopes to serve; Dr. Víctor Fajardo, President of the University of Magallanes, Luis Oval, Vice-President for Academic Affairs, and the professors of the Department of Natural Science Orlando Dollenz, Sylvia Oyarzún and Dr. Andrés Mansilla; this guide book also forms part of the biocultural conservation and environmental ethics program, initiated by the University of Magallanes and the Omora NGO at the Omora Ethnobotanical Park in the Chilean Antarctic Province; The ChileanAntarctic Provincial Government and Governor Eduardo Barros, who actively participates in the search for equity and conservation at the southern tip of the Americas, and graciously received poet Lorenzo Aillapan into the provincial government’s guesthouse and supported the work of this guide; The National Natural History Museum, which provided access to its valuable collection that demonstrates Chile’s biological and cultural diversity; we especially acknowledge the cooperation of the museum’s director, Eliana Ramírez, and Curator of Ornithology Juan Carlos Torres-Mura, who has been key in completing this project; The Center for Biodiversity and Conservation at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology – University of Connecticut (USA), which permitted the necessary research for the preparation of distribution maps, as well as the manuscript of this book; Ricardo Rozzi profoundly thanks the members of his doctoral committee John Silander, Gregory Anderson, Robin Chazdon, Robert Colwell and Steward Pickett, as well as Robert Dewar, and Christopher Elphick, at the University of Connecticut for their ecological, anthropological and ornithological guidance during the development of this guide book; The cyber and personal exchanges by way of the Network of Enseñanza de la Ecología en el Patio Escolar (EEPE), which remains a fount of learning and constant stimulation; particular thanks to 214 the network’s coordinators Peter Feinsinger, Alejandro Grajal, and Ricardo Stanoss of the Audubon Society’s LatinAmerica and Caribbean Program (USA), we hope that this guide will be an educational source material to aide in the search for ways to live respectfully with the world’s biological and cultural diversity by showing the urban, rural and remote corners of Latin America; Leonard Yannielli and the volunteers from the Earthwatch Institute project The Owls of Cape Horn for their collaboration in the recording of birdcalls and the study of the natural history of the avifauna in the austral extreme of the Americas; The Senda Darwin Foundation, especially its directors Juan Armesto and Mary Willson, and Claudia Hernández, Claudia Papic, Marco Méndez, Emma Elgueta and Iván Díaz, who cooperated in the ornithological research; Hernán Rivera from the Chilean national parks service and Guillermo Egli, of the Union of Chilean Ornithologists, with whom we organized the workshop Recognizing the Forest Birds of Chiloé, conducted in Chiloé National Park in December 1995. In this workshop participated: Francisco Delgado, José Gallegos, Mario Guinao, Jeno Muñoz, Jorge Panichini, Roberto Rosas, Jose Subiabre and Carlos Uribe (Chilean national parks agency), and Eduardo Ramilo, Juan Salguero and Lorenzo Simpson (Argentine parks delegation), and Enrique Couve, Luis Espinoza and Andreas von Meyer (Union of Chilean Ornithologists), and Carlos Sabag (Senda Darwin Foundation), and Andrea Bachmann and Lily Sheeline (Peace Corps – USA); all helped precipitate the initiation of this book; The recording studios of Button Records (Puerto Williams) and Radio WHUS-University of Connecticut (USA), which offered their facilities and studio time, under the direction of Nolberto González and John Schwenk, respectively, for the editing of sound tracks that allowed the combination of bird calls with stories and the voices of different people in the CDs of this guide; without this technical and infrastructure cooperation for the sound archives, this guide would not have...