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Dear Ornithologists from everywhere in the world:
The 24th International Ornithological
Congress will be held in the beautiful Hanseatic city of Hamburg, Germany, from
13 to 19 August 2006. The Congress is organised under the auspices of the German
Ornithologists’ Society and the Institute of Avian Research “Vogelwarte
Helgoland”. In a world that is changing at an unprecedented rate, this Congress
will be an unique opportunity to report on state of the art progress in the many
disciplines for which birds are ideal study models. As Ernst Mayr put it many
years ago, birds are a spring board for discovering the unknown, a remark which
will be confirmed once again in the many scientific lines of research that make
ornithology in the front line of progress in many aspects of biological
sciences.
The Scientific Program Committee has done a wonderful job in putting together
a promising program including ten plenary talks and forty-eight symposia with
a new system allowing any interested ornithologist to apply as a speaker in a
symposium of his or her choice. There will be also many Round Table Discussions
and contributed papers (both oral and poster presentations), as well as several
special evenings. A German evening will feature landmarks of
the outstanding contribution of German scientists to ornithology. Events on two
other evenings will address problems of conservation in a complementary way from
both theoretical and practical viewpoints. The first will be a Presidential
Forum entitled “Conservation in practice”. It will be jointly organised by the
President of the International Ornithological Congress and the Director and
Chief Executive of BirdLife International. The forum will address some key
points on themes related to ornithology and conservation. The second will be a panel discussion
organised by the Director of the Alfred Toepfer Academy of Nature
Conservation in Germany. Needless to say, such events are especially timely and
of paramount importance in our world where the biodiversity crisis makes
ornithologists more concerned than ever about issues dealing with the scientific
bases of conservation and how to put science into practice.
Besides the scientific aspect of the Congress, time and facilities will be
provided for exchanges, discussions among colleagues and friends, and just fun.
The Congress Centrum of Hamburg is an exceptionally beautiful venue, with all
modern facilities and a diversity of hotels, restaurants and lovely public
gardens in the vicinity, not to say anything on the many museums and cultural
events in the city of Hamburg. The Secretary General of the Congress and Local
Committee have designed many enjoyable non scientific events, including pre- and
post-congress excursions in many parts of Europe, from the North Cape to the
shores of the Mediterranean, as well as various cultural tours in Germany.
Register as soon as you can and send in an abstract of your contribution to this
Congress. It promises to be an outstanding event in your life as an
ornithologist.
Looking forward to meeting you in Hamburg,
Jacques Blondel
President, 24th International Ornithological Congress
Congress Centre Hamburg (CCH) http://www.cch.de
August 13 – 19, 2006
The working language of the Congress will be English.
Delegate registration fee includes access to the full program, a volume of the abstracts, a printed copy of the proceedings, a CD-ROM, and access to the opening ceremony and reception. The registration fee for accompanying persons covers access to the opening ceremony and reception, and access to the Accompanying Persons’ program.
Two forms of financial aid will be offered: reduced registration fees and travel
and accommodation assistance. Reduced registration fees will be available for a
limited number of special-case international delegates, based on financial need
and contribution to the Congress. Travel and accommodation assistance will be
available to a few participants in addition, based primarily on financial need
and contribution to the Congress. Applications for subsidies and reduced
registration fee must be sent to the Secretary General, preferably by using the online form at http://www.i-o-c.org before December 31, 2005.
Donations towards helping delegates from developing countries and transitional
economies are gratefully accepted and will be acknowledged in the conference
publications.
| Early Registration (until Jan. 08, 2006) | Euro 375 |
| Standard Registration (until May 31, 2006) | Euro 450 |
| Late Registration (from June 1, 2006) | Euro 550 |
| Reduced Registration | Euro 200 |
| Accompanying Person | Euro 100 |
No oral contribution will be included in the Scientific Program unless the early
registration fee has been paid by the author by December 31, 2005.
No poster contribution will be included in the Scientific Program unless the
registration fee has been paid by the author by May 31, 2006.
All cancellations of registration must be in writing to the Congress
Secretariat. Cancellation with 70% refunding will be accepted until 31 May 2006
(date of receipt by the congress secretariat), 50% will be refunded until 31
July 2006, thereafter no refunding. Refunds will be made after 1 September 2006.
All cancellations of hotel bookings must be in writing to the Congress
Secretariat. Cancellations will be charged with EUR 15,00 per room.
Cancellations later than 28 July 2006 can be charged with up to 90% of the room
rate. All costs arising due to cancellations or changes in booking or No Shows
shall be borne by the participant.
Please pre-register online at http://www.i-o-c.org.
| July 1, 2005 | Submission of abstracts for contributed papers and proposals for RTDs |
| December 31, 2005 | Submission of request for Special Interest Group meetings |
| October 30, 2005 | Delegates will be informed of acceptance of their abstract. |
| December 31, 2005 | Early Registration closes |
| May 31, 1 2006 | Standard Registration closes |
For the structure of the program see http://www.i-o-c.org.
The Scientific Program will comprise 10 plenary lectures and 48 symposia, as
well as contributed papers (oral and poster), round-table discussions (RTDs),
discussion forum, and Special Interest Group meetings.
Plenary Lectures are keynote addresses by outstanding ornithologists.
Symposia are aimed at the general ornithologist and will provide the
widest-possible coverage of current ornithological investigation studies. Each
symposium will feature five papers, two of them invited by the conveners.
Contributed Papers (oral or poster) will cover unpublished original research or
new syntheses.
Oral contributions will be selected by a review panel of the Scientific Program
Committee from the abstracts submitted.
Round-Table Discussions (RTDs) are a forum for discussion on specialist topics,
covering new scientific findings, and new directions in a particular field,
methods, techniques and hypotheses.
Special Interest Groups may arrange to meet during the Congress. Request for
such meetings should be sent to the Congress Secretariat (e-mail:
info@i-o-c.org).
Elizabeth Adkins-Regan, USA
Hormones and the development of sex differences in behavior
Jaques Blondel, France
Presidential address
Coping with habitat patchiness: the story of Mediterranean blue tits
Scott Edwards, USA
Genomics and ornithology
Jeremy Greenwood, UK
Citizens, Science and Bird Conservation
Erich D. Jarvis, USA
Learned birdsong and the neurobiology of human language
Don Merton, New Zealand
The kakapo: some highlights & lessons from 5 decades of applied conservation
Morne du Plessis, South Africa
Cooperative breeding
Theunis Piersma, The Netherlands
Using the power of comparison to explain habitat use and migration strategies of waders worldwide
Sarah Wanless, UK
Climate change and North Sea seabirds
Wolfgang Wiltschko, Germany
Magnetoreception in birds: a compass in the eye and a magnetometer in the beak
| 1 | Avian personalities |
| Conveners: Claudio Carere, Belgium; Irene M. Pepperberg, USA | |
| 2 | New insights into the sense of smell in birds: from foraging behaviour to individual recognition |
| Conveners: Francesco Bonadonna, France; Gabrielle Nevitt, USA | |
| 3 | Emerging issues in cooperative breeding research |
| Conveners: Jeff Walters, USA; Jan Komdeur, The Netherlands | |
| 4 | Male and female contributions to biparental care |
| Conveners: Keith Hamer, UK; Douglas Mock, 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 | |
| 7 | Responses of birds to (over)fishing |
| Conveners: Bruno Ens, The Netherlands; Bob Furness, UK | |
| 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 | |
| 10 | The status of the House Sparrow Passer domesticus in the urban environment |
| Conveners: Jenny De Laet, Belgium; J. Denis Summers-Smith, UK | |
| 11 | The effectiveness of agri-environment schemes for farmland birds |
| Conveners: Juliet Vickery, UK; David Kleijn, The Netherlands | |
| 12 | Avian conservation in the tropics: a global perspective |
| Conveners: Kimberly Smith, USA; Navjot Sodhi, Singapore | |
| 13 | Detecting ecological traps: avian and human perspectives |
| Conveners: Marc-André Villard, Canada; Tomas Pärt, Sweden | |
| 14 | The effect of climate change on avian population dynamics |
| Conveners: Marcel E.Visser, The Netherlands ; Marcel M. Lambrechts, France | |
| 15 | Birds and their use of varied landscapes: insights for integrated conservation planning |
| Conveners: Richard Loyn, Australia; Lucia Severinghaus, Taiwan | |
| 16 | Demographic mechanisms of population changes at large spatial scales |
| Conveners: Fernando Spina, Italy; Stephen Baillie, UK | |
| 17 | From trend analysis to population alert |
| Conveners: Mark Rehfisch, UK; Ruud Foppen, The Netherlands | |
| 18 | Integrated ecological studies of diseases and parasites in birds |
| Conveners: André Dhondt, USA; Heinz Richner, Switzerland | |
| 19 | Macroecology |
| Conveners: Carsten Rahbek, Denmark; Katrin Böhning-Gaese, Germany | |
| 20 | Ecological plasticity in birds: mechanisms and consequences |
| Conveners: Claudia Mettke-Hofmann, Germany; Russell Greenberg, USA | |
| 21 | Bird-microbe interactions: competition, commensalism and co-evolution |
| Conveners: Edward Burtt, USA; Philipp Heeb, Switzerland | |
| 22 | The process of natal recruitment in long-lived birds |
| Conveners: Peter H. Becker, Germany; Stuart Bradley, Australia | |
| 23 | Natural holes: the missing dimension in understanding hole-nester ecology |
| Conveners: Tomasz Wesolowski, Poland; Kathy Martin, Canada | |
| 24 | The physiology of life histories: comparing tropical and temperate zone birds |
| Conveners: Martin Wikelski, USA; Jeff Brawn, USA | |
| 25 | Advances in molecular systematics and phylogeography of neotropical birds |
| Conveners: Cristina Miyaki, Brazil; John Bates, 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 | |
| 27 | Molecular systematics and evolution |
| Conveners: Dorit Liebers, Germany; Allan J. Baker, Canada | |
| 28 | Dispersal and gene flow in populations: linking molecular methods to direct observations |
| Conveners: Arie J. van Noordwijk, The Netherlands; Erkki Korpimäki, Finland | |
| 29 | Causes of geographic variation in avian life-histories |
| Conveners: Wesley Hochachka, USA; Francisco Pulido, Germany | |
| 30 | MHC in birds: genomic organization and evolutionary importance |
| Conveners: Ralph Tiedemann, Germany; Helena Westerdahl, Sweden | |
| 31 | Magnetic orientation and magnetoreception |
| Conveners: Roswitha Wiltschko, Germany; Susanne Åkesson, Sweden | |
| 32 | Understanding the causes of recent changes in migratory behaviour |
| Conveners: Timothy Coppack, Germany; Charles M. Francis, Canada | |
| 33 | Migratory connectivity: biological significance and modern techniques |
| Conveners: Frank Moore, USA; Franz Bairlein, Germany | |
| 34 | Endocrine bases of reproduction: mechanisms and diversity |
| Conveners: Pierre Deviche, USA; Alistair Dawson, UK | |
| 35 | Neuroendocrine control of behaviour |
| Conveners: Stefan Leitner, UK; Wolfgang Goymann, 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 | |
| 39 | Evolution of color 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 | |
| 41 | Circadian rhythms and photoperiodism |
| Conveners: Vinod Kumar, India; Shizufumi Ebihara, Japan | |
| 42 | Bioacoustics: pure and applied aspects |
| Conveners: Peter McGregor, UK; Georg Klump, Germany | |
| 43 | Avian senescence |
| Conveners: Pat Monaghan, UK; Carol Vleck, USA | |
| 44 | Climate change and life history |
| Conveners: NN | |
| 45 | What 'animal models' can tell ornithologists about the genetics of wild populations |
| Conveners: Erik Postma, The Netherlands; Anne Charmantier, UK | |
| 46 | Brains and birdsong |
| Conveners: Erich Jarvis, USA; Constance Scharff, Germany | |
| 47 | How do birds sense the earth's magnetic field? Magnetoreception mechanisms in birds |
| Conveners: Henrik Mouritsen, Germany; Thorsten Ritz, USA | |
| 48 | Special symposium honouring Ebo Gwinner |
| Conveners: Michaela Hau, USA; John Wingfield, USA |
Evening August 14, 2006
German Evening - Ornithology in and from Germany
Evening August 16, 2006
Presidential Forum - Science meets conservation
All abstracts, whether for plenary lectures, symposium contributions, contributed papers, or RTDs must be submitted online at http://www.i-o-c.org: (closed by now!)
Deadline July 1, 2005
Delegates will be informed of acceptance of their abstract by Oct 30, 2005.
Final inclusion of any contribution in the congress program and abstract booklet
is contingent on payment in full of the conference registration fee and a
commitment to attend the conference.
Note:
PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT MORE THAN ONE ABSTRACT FOR AN ORAL CONTRIBUTION. IF YOU ARE
ALREADY A SYMPOSIUM OR PLENARY SPEAKER, DO NOT CONTRIBUTE AN ABSTRACT FOR AN
ORAL PAPER.
HOWEVER, AUTHORS OF PLENARIES, SYMPOSIUM PAPERS, ORAL PAPERS OR POSTERS MAY ALSO
PROPOSE A ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION AND DO A POSTER.
DELEGATES MAY CONTRIBUTE ONLY ONE POSTER AS FIRST AUTHOR.
Abstracts will be reviewed by members of the Scientific Program Committee. They will be edited and minor revisions may be made in style, grammar, wording and spelling, if needed. If more extensive revision is required, authors will be contacted.
Contributions on any topic in all fields of ornithology are called for. There
are 3 categories:
1. oral paper to be considered for symposium;
2. standard oral paper;
3. poster.
Category 1. Oral paper to be considered for symposium.
New for this meeting!
Symposia will consist of 2 keynote speakers (already chosen) and 3 oral papers
chosen from the abstracts for contributed papers. These oral papers will be 15
min long plus 3 min for questions.
If you wish your oral contribution to be considered for inclusion in a
symposium, you must enter the symposium number in the appropriate box on the
online form.
If your abstract is not chosen for a symposium, it will automatically be considered for a standard oral paper. Hence, you must also check the subject area box (see below, under subject areas).
Categories 2 and 3. Standard oral paper or poster
Standard oral papers will be 12 min talk plus 3 min for questions. If your
abstract is not accepted for an oral presentation it will automatically be
considered for a poster.
Subject areas:
- Behavioural ecology
- Evolutionary biology
- Behaviour
- Community and Landscape ecology
- Macroecology
- Population and Individual ecology
- Population genetics
- Migration and orientation
- Nutrition, foraging and energetics
- Physiology
- Morphology, ecomorphology, developmental biology, evo-devo
- Systematics, biogeography and paleontology
- Landscape and community conservation
- Species and population conservation
- Other subjects
Round Table Discussions:
Any group or individual may submit an abstract for a round table discussion.
These are intended as a forum for discussion and should not contain long oral
presentations by organizers: a few brief introductory comments to set the stage
and a list of discussion questions or issues are sufficient. The abstract should
contain a statement of purpose and a list of issues to be discussed. Round table
discussions will be accepted provided they do not overlap substantially in
content and subject to room availability. They will be held in the evenings and
will last 2 hours. After the meeting, organizers will be asked to prepare a 2-3
page report on the goals of their RTD.
Offline submission
If you cannot submit online, you may submit abstracts for orals and posters via
email to:
ioc06submit@biology.ualberta.ca, RTDs to
jacques.blondel@cefe.cnrs.fr
Please follow the format of the example below:
Contribution type: oral in symposium/standard oral/poster/RTD
Symposium #: if applicable; see list in circular
Subject area: see list in circular
The breeding biology of the House Sparrow in Canada and Germany.
Susan Harper1, and Franz Bairlein2
1Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E9,
Canada; 2 Institute of Avian Research, An der Vogelwarte 21, D-26386
Wilhelmshaven, Germany
Email of first author: sharper@ualberta.ca
Abstract:
Abstracts must be in one paragraph and be limited to 2000 characters (including spaces, about 250 words). Use the metric system for measurements. Please do not use figures, tables, complex equations, or special mathematical symbols.
Abstract Volume
All abstracts submitted in due time and with appropriate full registration fee
paid will be included in the Abstract Volume, which will be distributed at the
Congress.
Proceedings
Proceedings will be published after the Congress. They will be published as
supplements to the Journal of Ornithology (http://springerlink.metapress.com/link.asp?id=110831).
It will contain the full texts of plenary lectures in a printed issue, and all
symposium papers in an online supplement. A CD-ROM of the proceedings and the
abstracts of oral and poster contribution papers and RTD reports may also be
included. Instructions for preparing full papers will appear in the Third
Circular, and will be sent to the authors as well.
An Opening Reception will be held at the Congress Center Hamburg at 19:00 on
August 13, 2006.
A Congress Banquet will be held at the Congress Center Hamburg at 19:00 on
August 19, 2006. Tickets must be booked at registration.
Birding and nature tours will be offered before, during and after the Congress.
There will be a number of mid-congress excursions to the wider surroundings of
Hamburg, including the Wadden Sea, the island of Helgoland, the Lueneburg Heath,
and the Harz mountains.
More details in the Third Circular.
Early morning bird walks (ca 1.5 hours) around the venue and in the wider city of Hamburg will be organized by local ornithologists.
There is a wide array of possibilities for local cultural tours offered by
Hamburg Tourism (http://www.hamburg-tourism.de).
Accommodation is operated by
HCH - Hamburg Congress & Hotelservice, INTERPLAN AG, St. Petersburger Str. 1,
20355 Hamburg, Tel.: +49(0)40/32 50 92 30, Fax: +49/(0)40/32 50 92 44, e-mail:
IOC2006@interplan.de;
http://www.interplan.de. Hotel prices will be: Price category A: EUR 130 – 150;
B: EUR 115 – 130; C: EUR 90 – 95; D: EUR 78 – 88; E: EUR 58 – 75.
Please note that at present bookings for individual persons cannot be accepted.
Booking will be open from summer 2005 onwards.
If you may aim group reservation of hotel accommodation, please send your
request for group reservation to IOC2006@interplan.de for groups up to 10 people
and more.
In addition to hotel rooms, accommodation at student guest houses and private
rooms will be offered for participants from developing countries and
transitional economies.
There are flights to and from Hamburg from over 50 countries, with 38 direct
destinations. From most world capitals Hamburg is reached with only one stop via
Amsterdam, Brussels, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Helsinki, London Heathrow, Munich,
Paris, Vienna, or Zurich.
For flight information see also
http://www.hamburg-airport.de.
Hamburg is linked to most European capitals and many cities by trains and
coaches. Details at http://www.hamburg-tourism.de and German Rail
http://www.bahn.de.
The CCH is located in the center of Hamburg and next to Dammtor Railway Station.
Local travel is best by using the Rapid Transit Rail System (see
http://www.hvv.com).
Passports, valid for at least six months from the entry into Germany, and entry visas are required to visit Germany except EU-citizens. For details see http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/www/en/willkommen/einreisebestimmungen/liste_html, or consult the nearest German diplomatic mission. Congress participants should first register with the appropriate registration fee, and second contact the Congress Secretariat (info@i-o-c.org) which will then send a formal invitation upon request. You should apply for a visa at least two month before departure for Germany.
Hamburg is located in the temperate zone. The average temperature in mid August is 16.8 degrees Celsius, but daily temperature could be up to 30 degrees Celsius or as low as 10 degrees Celsius, and it could be rainy with a monthly average of 82 mm precipitation at on average 12 days.
The Congress Organizers cannot accept responsibility for personal accidents or damage to any personal property of Congress participants and accompanying persons. It is advisable to arrange for personal insurance for the duration of the Congress and any pre- and post-Congress trips.
President
Jacques Blondel (France) e-mail: jacques.blondel@cefe.cnrs.fr
Vice-President
John Wingfield (USA) e-mail: jwingfie@u.washington.edu
Honorary President
Jiro Kikkawa (Australia) e-mail: jkikkawa@zoology.uq.edu.au
Permanent Secretary of the IOC
Dominique G. Homberger (USA) e-mail: zodhomb@lsu.edu
Secretary-General of the 24th International Ornithological Congress
Franz Bairlein (Germany) e-mail: franz.bairlein@ifv.terramare.de
Chair: Susan Hannon (Canada) e-mail: IOC2006@biology.ualberta.ca
Gregory F. Ball (USA) e-mail: gball@jhu.edu
Vinod Kumar (India) e-mail: drvkumar@sancharnet.in
Kate Lessells (The Netherlands) e-mail: lessells@cto.nioo.knaw.nl
Charles Mlingwa (Tanzania) e-mail: tawiri@habari.co.tz
Patricia Monaghan (UK) e-mail: P.Monaghan@bio.gla.ac.uk
Frank Moore, (USA) e-mail: Frank.Moore@usm.edu
Christina Myiaki (Brazil) e-mail: cymiyaki@usp.br
Richard Schodde (Australia) e-mail: RichardSchodde@aol.com
Lucia Severinghaus (Taiwan–China) e-mail: zolls@gate.sinica.edu.tw
Dominique Homberger (USA) e-mail: zodhomb@lsu.edu
Franz Bairlein (Germany) e-mail: franz.bairlein@ifv.terramare.de
Jacques Blondel (France) e-mail: jacques.blondel@cefe.cnrs.fr
Fernando Spina (Italy) e-mail: fernando.spina@infs.it
Peter H. Becker (vice Secretary-General, Germany) e-mail: peter.becker@ifv.terramare.de
Katrin Böhning-Gaese (Germany e-mail: boehning@oekologie.biologie.uni-mainz.de
Georg Klump (Germany) e-mail: georg.klump@uni-oldenburg.de
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