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that in the process of formation they began to commit themselves and to enjoy the
activities proposed.
Another memory they highlight is the Christmas count of 2017, as an activity of
acceptance and involvement of their families in the monitoring. Each of the members shared with their families the activities they usually do in monitoring, teaching
them how to use the tools, identify the birds and collect the data:
-El año pasado hicimos un conteo navideño donde los esposos se involucraban, era por
familia el conteo navideño, entonces se dividieron las zonas, entonces estuvo bien padre,
iba yo, mi esposo y mis dos hijos y no pues tú el GPS, tú los miralejos, yo lo apunto y pues
andaban emocionadísimos, ella con su familia, ella con su familia, todo fue individual y en
diferentes partes...
-Y en diferentes sitios
-Y terrestre y marino
(-Last year we did a Christmas bird count, where the husbands got involved. Each family participated in Christmas count and zoning was assigned by family; it was incredible.
My husband, my two children and I divided the work, one took the GPS, the other the binoculars, I registered the data. All the families were very excited
-At different sites
-Both in marine and terrestrial ecosystems).
This activity induced a change in the attitude of family members, because when all
of them participated, they concluded that the activity was important for the
community.
An important memory for the acceptance and recognition of the group by the
community was the phenomenon of mortality of some birds in Bahía de Los
Ángeles:
-Había personas que nos avisan, a mí en lo personal una prima de mi esposo me dijo “¿qué
está pasando? hay mucho pato tirado” “¿ah sí? ¿en qué zona?”, “no pues en esa” y ahí
íbamos nosotras y ya me decía Saruhén, no pues llévate la pesola ¿no? una chiquita, y el
vernier, y mide y llévate guantes y ya yo me llevaba al niño y yo y a mi esposo y hasta 100
zambullidores en bolsas, los que estaban más frescos mandarlos a estudiar, y ellos bien
involucrados, ya ella haciendo otra zona o “no pues yo voy hoy”,
-Desde que pasó eso fue cuando la gente ya empezó como a avisar porque sí hubo
mucho zambullidor muerto,
-Era mucho,
-Yo de ahí noté que como que ya cualquier cosa avisaban “hay un animal allá”… (-There
were people who came and told us; a cousin of my husband said: “what’s going on, there
are a lot of ducks lying around.” So, I asked her in what area and she pointed towards it.
Then we went to check it out; we took the equipment to weigh and measure the ducks (a
scale and the Vernier) and gloves. I went with my son and husband; we weighed and measured up to 100 grebes, those that were still fresh we sent for analysis. This is how the
community got involved and we worked in different areas,
-And people continued to indicate more sites with dead grebes,
-There were many of them...
-Ever since then, people began to inform us...).
The involvement of “Women with Wings” in documenting this phenomenon gave
them the recognition of the community; since that moment they were identified as
agents for environmental care.
11 “Women with Wings”: An Experience of Participatory Monitoring in a Natural…
that in the process of formation they began to commit themselves and to enjoy the
activities proposed.
Another memory they highlight is the Christmas count of 2017, as an activity of
acceptance and involvement of their families in the monitoring. Each of the members shared with their families the activities they usually do in monitoring, teaching
them how to use the tools, identify the birds and collect the data:
-El año pasado hicimos un conteo navideño donde los esposos se involucraban, era por
familia el conteo navideño, entonces se dividieron las zonas, entonces estuvo bien padre,
iba yo, mi esposo y mis dos hijos y no pues tú el GPS, tú los miralejos, yo lo apunto y pues
andaban emocionadísimos, ella con su familia, ella con su familia, todo fue individual y en
diferentes partes...
-Y en diferentes sitios
-Y terrestre y marino
(-Last year we did a Christmas bird count, where the husbands got involved. Each family participated in Christmas count and zoning was assigned by family; it was incredible.
My husband, my two children and I divided the work, one took the GPS, the other the binoculars, I registered the data. All the families were very excited
-At different sites
-Both in marine and terrestrial ecosystems).
This activity induced a change in the attitude of family members, because when all
of them participated, they concluded that the activity was important for the
community.
An important memory for the acceptance and recognition of the group by the
community was the phenomenon of mortality of some birds in Bahía de Los
Ángeles:
-Había personas que nos avisan, a mí en lo personal una prima de mi esposo me dijo “¿qué
está pasando? hay mucho pato tirado” “¿ah sí? ¿en qué zona?”, “no pues en esa” y ahí
íbamos nosotras y ya me decía Saruhén, no pues llévate la pesola ¿no? una chiquita, y el
vernier, y mide y llévate guantes y ya yo me llevaba al niño y yo y a mi esposo y hasta 100
zambullidores en bolsas, los que estaban más frescos mandarlos a estudiar, y ellos bien
involucrados, ya ella haciendo otra zona o “no pues yo voy hoy”,
-Desde que pasó eso fue cuando la gente ya empezó como a avisar porque sí hubo
mucho zambullidor muerto,
-Era mucho,
-Yo de ahí noté que como que ya cualquier cosa avisaban “hay un animal allá”… (-There
were people who came and told us; a cousin of my husband said: “what’s going on, there
are a lot of ducks lying around.” So, I asked her in what area and she pointed towards it.
Then we went to check it out; we took the equipment to weigh and measure the ducks (a
scale and the Vernier) and gloves. I went with my son and husband; we weighed and measured up to 100 grebes, those that were still fresh we sent for analysis. This is how the
community got involved and we worked in different areas,
-And people continued to indicate more sites with dead grebes,
-There were many of them...
-Ever since then, people began to inform us...).
The involvement of “Women with Wings” in documenting this phenomenon gave
them the recognition of the community; since that moment they were identified as
agents for environmental care.
11 “Women with Wings”: An Experience of Participatory Monitoring in a Natural…