Xerónimo Castñeda

Audubon California, Conservation Project Manager

Xerónimo Castñeda is a Conservation Project Manager for Audubon California’s Working Lands program. Currently he leads Audubon’s Tricolored Blackbird conservation program, a collaborative effort to protect at-risk colonies in conflict with agricultural operations on dairy farms. Xerónimo also works to develop multi-benefit projects to enhance wetland habitat and on-farm habitat restoration throughout the Central Valley. He has over 10 years of conservation experience, including work on many different projects throughout the United States, from the entire west coast to the eastern shore of Virginia and northern Maine. He received a Masters of Natural Resource Management in Wildlife from Humboldt State University and a B.S. in Environmental Science, Technology, and Policy from California State University Monterey Bay.