| DAY | Mon 14 Aug | Tues 15 Aug | Wed 16 Aug | Fri 18 Aug | Sat 19 Aug |
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Plenary 8:30-9:30 |
Jacques Blondel, France Presidential address The story of Mediterranean Blue Tits or how to cope with heterogeneous and rapidly changing environments |
Elizabeth Adkins-Regan, USA Hormones and the development of sex differences in behavior |
Wolfgang Wiltschko,
Germany Magnetoreception in birds: two receptors for two different tasks |
Erich D. Jarvis,
USA Learned birdsong and the neurobiology of human language |
Jeremy Greenwood,
UK Citizens, Science and Bird Conservation |
| Symposia 10:00-12:00 |
8 Birds as Indicators of Environmental
Change Conveners: David Noble, UK; Michel Louette, Belgium 9 New tools and concepts in avian conservation genetics Conveners: Gernot Segelbacher, Germany; Jacob Höglund, Sweden 18 Integrated ecological studies of diseases and parasites in birds Conveners: André Dhondt, USA; Heinz Richner, Switzerland 20 Ecological plasticity in birds: mechanisms and consequences Conveners: Claudia Mettke-Hofmann, Germany; Russell Greenberg, USA 22 The process of natal recruitment in long-lived birds Conveners: Peter H. Becker, Germany; Stuart Bradley, Australia 25 Advances in molecular systematics and phylogeography of neotropical birds Conveners: Cristina Miyaki, Brazil; John Bates, USA 32 Understanding the causes of recent changes in migratory behaviour Conveners: Timothy Coppack, Germany; Charles M. Francis, Canada 41 Circadian rhythms and photoperiodism Conveners: Vinod Kumar, India; Shizufumi Ebihara, Japan |
1 Avian personalities Conveners: Claudio Carere, Belgium; Irene M. Pepperberg, USA 3 Emerging issues in cooperative breeding research Conveners: Jeff Walters, USA; Jan Komdeur, The Netherlands 7 Responses of birds to (over)fishing Conveners: Bruno Ens, The Netherlands; Bob Furness, UK 15 Birds and their use of varied landscapes: insights for integrated conservation planning Conveners: Richard Loyn, Australia; Lucia Severinghaus, Taiwan 21 Bird-microbe interactions: competition, commensalism and co-evolution Conveners: Edward Burtt, USA; Philipp Heeb, Switzerland 28 Dispersal and gene flow in populations: linking molecular methods to direct observations Conveners: Arie J. van Noordwijk, The Netherlands; Erkki Korpimäki, Finland 33 Migratory connectivity: biological significance and modern techniques Conveners: Frank Moore, USA; Franz Bairlein, Germany 35 Neuroendocrine control of behaviour Conveners: Stefan Leitner, UK; Wolfgang Goymann, Germany |
2 New insights into the sense of smell in
birds: from foraging behaviour to individual recognition
Conveners: Francesco Bonadonna, France; Gabrielle Nevitt, USA 5 Flexibility in mating signals and mate choice: ultimate and proximate bases Conveners: Keith Sockman, USA; Elizabeth MacDougall-Shackleton, Canada 6 Information and power: how are conflicts at the nest resolved? Conveners: Rebecca Kilner, UK; Hugh Drummond, Mexico 10 The status of the House Sparrow Passer domesticus in the urban environment Conveners: Jenny De Laet, Belgium; J. Denis Summers-Smith, UK 13 Detecting ecological traps: avian and human perspectives Conveners: Marc-André Villard, Canada; Tomas Pärt, Sweden 24 The physiology of life histories: comparing tropical and temperate zone birds Conveners: Martin Wikelski, USA; Jeff Brawn, USA 26 New approaches, new data, and new findings in avian phylogenetics at and above the ordinal level Conveners: Shannon Hackett, USA; Gerald Mayr, Germany 29 Causes of geographic variation in avian life-histories Conveners: Wesley Hochachka, USA; Francisco Pulido, Germany 31 Magnetic orientation and magnetoreception Conveners: Roswitha Wiltschko, Germany; Susanne Åkesson, Sweden |
4 Male and female contributions to
biparental care Conveners: Keith Hamer, UK; Douglas Mock, USA 14 The effect of climate change on avian population dynamics Conveners: Marcel E.Visser, The Netherlands ; Marcel M. Lambrechts, France 16 Demographic mechanisms of population changes at large spatial scales Conveners: Fernando Spina, Italy; Stephen Baillie, UK 30 MHC in birds: genomic organization and evolutionary importance Conveners: Ralph Tiedemann, Germany; Helena Westerdahl, Sweden 39 Evolution of colour ornaments Conveners: Rauno Alatalo, Finland; Staffan Andersson, Sweden 40 Behaviour and physiology of under-water foraging in diving birds Conveners: Patrick Butler, UK; Akiko Kato, Japan 46 Brains and birdsong Conveners: Erich Jarvis, USA; Constance Scharff, Germany 48 Special symposium honouring Ebo Gwinner Conveners: Michaela Hau, USA; John Wingfield, USA; Hubert Schwabl USA |
11 The effectiveness of agri-environment
schemes for farmland birds Conveners: Juliet Vickery, UK; David Kleijn, The Netherlands 19 Macroecology Conveners: Carsten Rahbek, Denmark; Katrin Böhning-Gaese, Germany 36 Coping with seasonal challenges: the role and regulation of moult Conveners: Barbara Helm, Germany ;Les Underhill, South Africa 37 Vision and its function Conveners: Graham Martin, UK; Luz Marina Rojas, Venezuela 38 Comparative avian immunology, from poultry to passerine Conveners: Lynn Martin, USA; Dennis Hasselquist, Sweden 44 Climate change and avian life histories Convenor: Christiaan Both, The Netherlands 45 What 'animal models' can tell ornithologists about the genetics of wild populations Conveners: Erik Postma, The Netherlands; Anne Charmantier, UK 47 How do birds sense the earth's magnetic field? Magnetoreception mechanisms in birds Conveners: Henrik Mouritsen, Germany; Thorsten Ritz, USA |
| Plenary 13:30-14:30 |
Scott Edwards,
USA Genomics and ornithology |
Don Merton, New
Zealand The kakapo: some highlights and lessons from 5 decades of applied conservation |
Morne du Plessis,
South Africa Delayed dispersal and cooperative breeding in birds |
Sarah Wanless,
UK Climate change and north-east Atlantic seabirds |
Theunis Piersma,
The Netherlands Using the power of comparison to explain habitat use and migration strategies of waders worldwide |
| Posters 14:30-16:30 |
No posters | ||||
| Orals / Symposia 16:30-18:00 |
1. foraging behaviour and diet 2. parental care 3. conservation: riparian and wetland 4. species diversity and conservation 5. migration stopover 6. physiology: metabolism 7. population dynamics 8. phylogeny |
9. mate choice/mating systems 10. behavioural ecology of foraging 11. contaminants 12. bird communities in changing environments 13. biogeography and phylogeny 14. communication 15. natal dispersal/ philopatry 16. conservation: habitat requirements |
17. foraging and energetics 18. territory 19. threatened species 20. conservation: farmland 21. population genetics 22. timing of breeding 23. evolutionary biology 24. morphology |
25. mate choice 26. conservation: forests 27. population recovery 28. breeding success 29. migration 30. immune responses 31. evolutionary biology 32. population trends/large scale data |
15:00 - 17:00 12 Avian conservation in the tropics: a global perspective Conveners: Kimberly Smith, USA; Navjot Sodhi, Singapore 17 From trend analysis to population alert Conveners: Mark Rehfisch, UK; Ruud Foppen, The Netherlands 23 Natural holes: the missing dimension in understanding hole-nester ecology Conveners: Tomasz Wesolowski, Poland; Kathy Martin, Canada 27 Molecular systematics and evolution Conveners: Dorit Liebers, Germany; Allan J. Baker, Canada 34 Endocrine bases of reproduction: mechanisms and diversity Conveners: Pierre Deviche, USA; Alistair Dawson, UK 42 Bioacoustics: pure and applied aspects Conveners: Peter McGregor, UK; Georg Klump, Germany 43 Avian senescence Conveners: Pat Monaghan, UK; Carol Vleck, USA |
| Evening 20:00-22:00 |
German evening J. Haffer: The development of ornithology in central Europe E. Bezzel: Birds in Germany: Some insights after more than 150 years of comprehensive bird recording by amateurs and professionals |
Round tables: RT1: Avian microbiology: a new perspective in ornithology? (Burtt) RT2: Iris coloration in birds (Craig) RT3: Impact of Brominated Flame Retardants on Birds (Bird) RT4: Invasions in birds: causes, mechanisms and adaptive significance (Iovchenko) RT5: Current conservation status and situation of woodpeckers around the globe (Pechacek) RT7: A discussion of the different influences of magnetic fields on avian behaviour (von Philipsborn) RT8: ORNIS: Extending the data network globally for biodiversity research on birds (Cicero) RT9: Photoperiodicity in tropical birds (Chandola-Saklani) RT10: Birds in cities (Chamberlain) RT16: The Importance of the Great Rift Valley for Palearctic Bird Migration (Leshem) RT21: Teaching the next generation of ornithologists (Homberger) |
Presidential forum: Bird Science and bird Conservation: have we lost our way (Blondel) |
Panel Discussion:
Science into practice for conservation (Schreiner) Round tables: RT11: Capturing indigenous ornithology (Tidemann) RT12: Strategies for successful bird conservation in arable and grassland systems (Morris) RT13: AFRING and the future of waterbird ringing in Africa (Harebottle) RT14: Validity and pitfalls of stress hormone analyses: a user’s perspective (Jenni-Eiermann) RT15: The urbanization of birds: from behavioural plasticity to adaptive evolution (Coppack) RT17:Towards a global catalogue of bird-types, or how to link information on museum specimens (Frahnert) RT18: Future directions in European Montagu’s harrier research and conservation (Koks) RT19: Conservation medicine: Towards an understanding of the role of infectious diseases and parasites in wild birds (Bennett) RT20: Why we need a Free Data Policy for Birds and Habitats: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Huettmann et al.) |
19:30 - 22:00 Banquet |
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