Email:

farengoSPAMFILTER@amnh.org

Education

• State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, M.Sc., 1994
• State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Ph.D., 1997

Research Interests

Dr. Felicity Arengo is Associate Director of the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation where she helps oversee strategic planning, project development, and fundraising efforts. She is also adjunct professor at Columbia University. Felicity has over ten years of field research and project experience in Latin America and is currently the Western Hemisphere coordinator of the IUCN Flamingo Specialist Group. She received an M.Sc. in 1994 and a Ph.D. in Wildlife Ecology in 1997 from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. For her doctoral dissertation she studied Caribbean Flamingo behavior and ecology in Mexico. Currently she is working with South American colleagues on flamingo and wetland research and conservation in the high Andes. Prior to joining the CBC in December 2004, Felicity was the Assistant Director of the Latin America and Caribbean Program at the Wildlife Conservation Society.

• Publications

  • Arengo, F. 2003. Flamingos, p. 171-174. In Mittermeier, R.A., P.Robles Gil, C.G. Mittermeier, T. Brooks, M. Hoffman, W.R. Konstant, G.A.B. da Fonseca, and R.B. Mast, Wildlife Spectacles. CEMEX-Agrupacion Sierra Madre-Conservation International, Mexico, 324 pp.
  • Arengo, F. And G. A. Baldassarre. 2002. Patch choice and foraging behavior on nonbreeding American Flamingos in Yucatán, Mexico. Condor 104:452-457.
  • Arengo, F. and G. A. Baldassarre. 1999. Resource variability and conservation of American Flamingos in coastal wetlands of Yucatán, Mexico. Journal of Wildlife Management 63:1201-1212.
  • Arengo, F. and G. A. Baldassarre. 1998. Potential food availability and flamingo use of commercial salt impoundments in the Ría Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Mexico. Colonial Waterbirds 21:211-221.
  • Arengo, F. and G. A. Baldassarre. 1995. Effects of food density on the behavior and distribution of nonbreeding American Flamingos in Yucatan, Mexico. Condor 97:325-334
  • Arengo, F. and G. A. Baldassarre. 1995. American flamingos and ecotourism on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, p. 207-210. In J. A. Bissonette and P. R. Krausman [eds.], Integrating people and wildlife for a sustainable future. Proceedings of the first International Wildlife Management Congress. The Wildlife Society, Bethesda, MD, USA.
  • Baldassarre, G., and F. Arengo. 2000. A review of the ecology and conservation of Caribbean Flamingos in Yucatán, Mexico. Conservation Biology of Flamingos. Waterbirds 23 (Special Publication 1): 71-79.
  • Baldassarre, G. A., F. Arengo, and K. Bildstein. 2000 [eds.]. 2000. Conservation Biology of Flamingos. Waterbirds 23 (Special Publication 1).
  • Bildstein, K. L., G. A.. Baldassarre, and F. Arengo. 2000. Flamingo Science: Where are we and where do we want to go. Conservation Biology of Flamingos. Waterbirds 23 (Special Publication 1): 206-211.