What is a Cracidologist?
A Cracidologist is a biologist who studies these fascinating birds. Currently this dedicated band of scientists who are determined to learn everything there is to know about these rare birds numbers about 100 individuals. By dedicated, they are indeed no less than that. Cracidologists may risk their lives working in dangerous regions and less than comfortable conditions to satiate their quest to learn all they can about these rare birds. Click here to learn more about specific Cracid projects.

Cracid Specialist Group (CSG) is the name given to the group formed by Stuart Strahl, founding Chair, in 1990 under the supervision of the Birdlife International and IUCN - The World Conservation Union's Species Survival Commission. Today the CSG is Chaired by Dan Brooks (dbrooks@hmns.org), with a number of Regional Coordinators that help expand regional interest. Among the CSG's most important objectives is bringing the Family Cracidae to the global attention of conservationists, and to stimulate additional research and world-wide interest in these Endangered birds. One of the first goals of the CSG was to point out the economic importance of the Cracids in the ecological maintenance and preservation of Latin American forest reserves. As indicators of human perturbation and habitat quality, the Cracids are second to none among Neotropical bird groups as outstanding heuristic tools for the design and implementation of monitoring conditions in natural areas. The CSG maintains its active network through a series of workshops and symposia, a progressive publications series, and through endorsing a number of field conservation projects.