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PROGRAMME
DAY 1 – 5th April 2011 - evening only
17:00 Registration
19:00 Dinner
20:30 Key Note Presentation| Prof Ian Newton FRS OBE, former President of BOU, Union Medallist and author of The Migration Ecology of Birds (Academic Press 2008) / The ecology of bird migration patterns
DAY 2 – 6th April 2011
SESSION 1 | Migration Ecology I
Chair | Dr Alistair Dawson, BOU President
Annual cycles, especially movement patterns, connectivity, stop-over ecology and moult strategies
09:00 Conference opening & Session Chair | Dr Alistair Dawson, BOU President (including launch of participatory event)
09:10 Key Note Presentation | Dr Peter Marra, Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, Washington, USA | Studying birds in the context of the annual cycle: carry-over effects and seasonal interactions
09:55 Talk 1.1 | Dr Kasper Thorup, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Denmark | Studying long-distance migration of raptors
10:15 Talk 1.2 | Matias Juhant, University of Maribor, Slovenia | What we know about raptor migration within South America
10:35 Coffee | Time to view posters, displays and bookshop | Participatory event
SESSION 2 | Migration Ecology II
Chair | Dr Karl Evans, University of Sheffield
Annual cycles, especially movement patterns, connectivity, stop-over ecology and moult strategies
11:10 Talk 2.1 | Dr Ulf Ottosson, University of Lund, Sweden | From Europe to Africa and back again: the example of the Garden Warbler
11:30 Talk 2.2 | Miren Andueza, University of Valencia, Spain | Effect of endogenous and exogenous factors on departure decisions of sedge warblers, Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, from a stopover site during autumn migration
11:50 Talk 2.3 | Dr Volker Salewski, University of Osnabrück, Germany | Who is who? - "Olivaceous Warblers" in West Africa
12:10 Talk 2.4 | Drs Paul Donald & Steffen Oppel, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, UK | Can we study the winter distribution of Aquatic Warblers with feather isotope analyses?
12:30 Talk 2.5 | Dr Elizabeth Yohannes, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany / Stable isotopes and the ecology of bird migration
12.50 Techspot 1 | Sean Walls, Biotrack Ltd
13:00 Lunch | Time to view posters, displays and bookshop | Participate
SESSION 3 | Migration Ecology III
Chair | Dr Phil Atkinson, BTO
14:30 Talk 3.1 | Drs Rob Robinson, Sarah Eglington & Ali Johnston, British Trust for Ornithology, UK | Large scale patterns of demography in Palearctic warblers
14:50 Talk 3.2| Dr Fernando Spina, Istituto Nazionale per la Fauna Selvatica, Italy | Hundreds of ringers and one million Swallows: large-scale joint efforts to unravel the journeys of a symbol of migration
15:10 Talk 3.3 | Teresa Militão, University of Barcelona, Spain | Can we use stable isotope analyses to trace the migration of Atlantic seabirds?
15:30 Talk 3.4 | Dr Rob Sheldon, RSPB, UK | Assessing the migration routes of the Sociable Lapwing using historical records and satellite telemetry
15:50 Afternoon tea | Time to view posters & displays | Participate
SESSION 4 | Responses to Environmental Change I
Chair | Dr Peter Jones, University of Edinburgh
Individual and population responses to environmental change, including range change, phenological shifts and migration strategies, with a focus on agriculture, deforestation and desertification
16:25 Key Note Presentation | Dr Jenny Gill, University of East Anglia, UK |
17:10 Talk 4.1 | Prof Brian Huntley, University of Durham, UK | Migratory birds and climatic change
17:30 Talk 4.2 | Adam Seward, University of Cardiff, UK | Flexibility of the migration strategy of northern wheatear in response to simulated climate change
17:50 Techspot 2| vacant
18:00 BOU Annual General Meeting | Free time – time to view posters & displays | Participate
20:00 BOU Annual Dinner & Presentation of the BOU Union Medal
DAY 3 – 7th April 2011
SESSION 5 | Responses to Environmental Change II
Chair | Jacquie Clark, BTO
Individual and population responses to environmental change, including range change, phenological shifts and migration strategies, with a focus on agriculture, deforestation and desertification
09:00 Talk 5.1 | Dr Silke Bauer & Dr Lukas Jenni, Swiss Ornithological Institute, Switzerland | Cues and the optimal timing of migration in the face of environmental changes
09:20 Talk 5.2 | Catriona Morrison, University of East Anglia, UK | Shifts in breeding phenology in the willow warbler: implications for population trends
09:40 Talk 5.3 | Mikkel Willemoes Kristensen, Copenhagen Natural History Museum, Denmark | Urbanisation effects on migration behaviour of short-distance migratory birds
10:00 Talk 5.4 | Dr Phil Atkinson, BTO, & Dr Danaë Sheehan, RSPB, UK | Distribution and habitat associations of Palearctic-African migrant birds in West Africa - implications for the diagnosis of declines
10:20 Techspot 3| vacant
10.30 Coffee | Time to view posters and displays | Last chance to take part in the participate
SESSION 6 | Management for Migratory Birds –Science to Practice
Chair | Dr Danaë Sheehan, RSPB
Management strategies, especially through international cooperation and collaboration
11:10 Talk 6.1 | Dr José Alves, University of East Anglia, UK | Trade-offs between shorter migration and warmer winters: carry-over effects of winter site choice in migratory shorebirds
11:30 Talk 6.2 | Drs Nigel Clark, Phil Atkinson, Jacquie Clark, Simon Gillings & Rob Robinson (Delaware Shorebird Project), BTO, UK | Getting to the Arctic on time: adaptive resource management of Horseshoe Crabs to protect migrating Knot
11:50 Talk 6.3 | Tim Jones, DJEnvironmental, UK | The science and the art of international action planning for migratory birds
12:10 Talk 6.4 | Dr Norbert Schaffer, RSPB, UK | EU species action planning – the Corncrake
12:30 Talk 6.5 | Dr Tim Stowe, Director of International Operations, RSPB, UK |
SESSION 7 | Future Knowledge and Policy Needs
Chair | Dr Helen Baker, JNCC
14:00 Key Note Presentation | State of knowledge | Professor Franz Bairlein, Institute of Avian Research, Wilhelmshaven, Germany | Migratory birds - challenged conservation
14:45 Talk 7.1 | Prof Hanna Kokko, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia | Evolution does not optimize - should we?
15:05 Talk 7.2 | Dr Ian Bainbridge, Scottish Natural Heritage, UK | Policy perspectives – what will migrant birds need in future?
15:25 Talk 7.3 | Summary of conference, including results of participatory activity | Conference Organising Committee
15:45 Talk 7.4 | Discussion and conclusions | Conference Organising Committee
16:05 Close of Conference | Dr Jenny Gill, President-elect of the BOU
Afternoon tea and departure
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