Funding Request and Rationale To date, the nest box program has been limited to the Baturité area as travelling to and from Quixada and Ibaretama has been infeasible. The three municipalities are located over 100km apart from one another with parakeet sites being further isolated down dirt roads, trails, or areas otherwise inaccessible to a standard vehicle (Figure 6). Figure 6: Map detailing the location of the state of Ceará in NE Brazil with the known localities of Pyrrhura griseipectus.


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Currently, field assistants travel to and from nest box sites in Baturité using the bus or a personal vehicle. The bus severely hampers the amount of sites that can be visited in a day for maintenance and counts, in addition to limiting our ability to search for suitable natural cavities across the Baturité area. The use of a personal vehicle has been necessary at times, however this incurs costs to the employee in ways which cannot easily be calculated and reimbursed, such as the depreciation in value of the vehicle.


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