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| Mission Statement |
San Clemente, an isolated and unique island located 60 miles off the coast
of Southern California is home to a wide variety of plants and animals
found nowhere else in the world. In 1996 the ESRC assumed responsibility
for many facets of the effort to save the San Clemente Loggerhead Shrike,
a small predatory bird whose entire world population is limited to the
island. The shrike is the most endangered bird in North America, with its
population in the early 1990s dipping to a perilously low level of only
13 individuals.
Together
with the Zoological Society of San Diego and other organizations, and with
support from the U.S. Navy, the ESRC played the key role in 1996 and 1997
of monitoring the wild shrike population, helping to establish and maintain
a captive breeding population, planning and initiating attempts to release
captive reared birds, and helped pioneer methods to attach radio transmitters
to some of the released birds to track their fate upon release. The ESRC
is proud to have built on the work of earlier researchers and vastly improved
the techniques used to monitor the activities of wild San Clemente Loggerhead
Shrikes.
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