Celebrating shorebirds migration on Peru, South America

Fernando will go through the features of Peru as a country holding many migratory shorebird species, showing habitats they use in an equatorial and tropical country. He will also show what they do to conserve them and their habitats, and how they celebrate them through festivals.

Fernando Angulo Pratolongo is a bird conservationist. who has actively worked with birds and conservation projects since 1990. He has been Director of the White-winged Guan Conservation program from 2000 to 2016, during which time he successfully reintroduced the species in Lambayeque, Peru, where the guan has been recently downlisted to Endangered. He has served as Peru Officer for Threatened Birds and Important Bird Areas for BirdLife International in Peru between 2008 and 2011. He has actively participated in the creation and management of many protected areas in northwestern Peru.

Fernando is co-author of the Peru Shorebirds Atlas and actively works with this group of birds.  He also specializes in birds of the dry forest and northern Peru, and is principal investigator at the Center for Ornithology and Biodiversity (CORBIDI), member of four groups of specialists from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and has numerous books, scholarly and popular publications about birds of Peru. He is co-author of the Peru Shorebirds Atlas and actively works with this group of birds. Currently he is the president of the Peru Ornithologists Union (UNOP). Recently he was awarded with “Carlos Ponce” prize as Conservation leader in Perú.