This is Bird Noh.

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

They reproduce in Canada, and they come to the coasts of Sinaloa.

They bring in Canada and arrive at the coasts of Sinaloa to spend the winter.

Says a shrimp and shorebird conservation specialist named Juanita Fonseca.

Sinaloa has more than 400 miles of coastline in the Pacific coast and the sea of Cortés.

There, Juanita works with the western hemisphere's shorebird reserve network and with manomit,

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 a Tlajuritoxidental, wants to eat,

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

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

to learn which habitats mean more protection.

It's a species of interest for Canadian biologists,

who collaborate with Juanita and her team to preserve the wintering grounds in Sinaloa,

she is saying.

And they do so by creating spaces within shrimp farms for the Tlajuritoxuito.

This show is part of a series on manomit, shorebird conservation research

and it's also available in Spanish.

Visit our website, birdnot.org, to learn more.

I'm Camilo Garzón.