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Along the coast of Sinaloa in Mexico, there are species of shorebirds with one of the longest migrations in the Western Hemisphere.

It's reproduces in Canada and get to the coasts of Sinaloa,

to these sites of Camarons in numbers very, very abundant.

They breed in Canada and arrive at the coasts of Sinaloa to spend the winter, says a shrimp

and shorebird conservation specialist named Juanita Fonsekber.

Sinaloa has more than 400 miles of coastline in the Pacific coast and the Sea of Cortez.

There, Juanita works with the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network and

with Manomet, creating guidelines that help shrimp farmers share the coastline with shorebirds.

One of those shorebirds is the western sandpiper. And the sandpiper, here known as the Plaguerito

Occidental, wants to eat.

But their wetland habitats are affected by the shrimp farming industry.

Juanita and other researchers want to see how and where these shorebirds travel,

to learn which habitats needed more protection.

It's a species of internet for the Canadians,

with which we have collaborated with them

and worked with this species, for the number that gets here to these costs.

It's a species of interest for Canadian biologists who collaborate with Juanita and her team

to preserve their wintering grounds in Sinaloa, she is saying.

And they do so by creating spaces within shrimp farms for the Palljerito to eat.

This show is part of a series on Manamed Shorebird Conservation Research, and it's also available in

Españo.

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