| FRIDAY |
23 September |
| from 17:00 |
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REGISTRATION |
| 18:15-18:45 |
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Strathpeffer Pipe Band |
| 19:00-21:00 |
dinner |
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| 21:00- |
Mike Pienkowski |
Film - Morocco Expedition 1971 |
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Jan van de Kam |
wader photographs |
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Bozena Summers |
Highland Ringing Group in action |
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| SATURDAY |
24 September |
| 09:00-10:00 |
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Welcome and Annual General Meeting |
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Feeding ecology studies |
| 10:00-10:20 |
Adriaan Dokter |
Foraging patterns of Oystercatchers studied at high spatial resolution by GPS-tagging |
| 10:20-10:40 |
Hong-Yan Yang |
Why a bivalve prey (Potamocorbula laevis), despite heavy shells, is good food for staging Red Knots (Calidris canutus) in the Yellow Sea? |
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coffee/tea break |
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Migration studies |
| 11:10-11:30 |
Eldar Rakhimberdiev |
Naïve migrants and the use of magnetic cues: magnetic storms differentially affect male and female Ruff during their first migration |
| 11:30-11:50 |
Frédéric Robin |
Individual migration strategies and duration of wintering episodes for Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa islandica on the Atlantic coast of France |
| 11:50-12:10 |
Jim Wilson |
Knots marked in north Norway switch spring migration route to Iceland |
| 12:10-12:30 |
Deborah Buehler |
How do migratory shorebirds stay healthy? Integrating ecological immunology and molecular biology to find out |
| 12:30-12:50 |
José Alves |
Dressing up for going out: breeding plumage ornamentation and pre-nuptial migration of Icelandic godwits wintering across the range |
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lunch |
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Breeding biology studies |
| 14:00-14:20 |
Niko Groen |
A modern landscape ecology of Black-tailed Godwits: habitat selection in southwest Fryslân (The Netherlands) |
| 14:20-14:40 |
Paula Machín |
Ecology of breeding waders in southern Lapland (Sweden) |
| 14:40-15:00 |
Natalie dos Remedios |
Breeding system evolution and sex-biased offspring mortality in small plovers (Charadrius spp.) |
| 15:00-15:20 |
Stephen Dinsmore |
Plovers, prairie dogs, and plague: The Mountain Plover in Montana, USA |
| 15:20-15:40 |
Robert Rae |
Observations on the breeding biology of the Jack Snipe in North Norway |
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coffee/tea break |
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Declines in wader populations |
| 16:10-16:30 |
Bruno Ens |
The many causes of the dramatic decline of Oystercatchers in the Netherlands |
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| 16:30-16:50 |
Rosemarie Kentie |
Modern Dutch agricultural grasslands are an ecological trap for Black-tailed Godwits |
| 16:50-17:10 |
Paul Bellamy |
Causes of declines in upland breeding Curlew populations in the UK |
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| 17:10-17:30 |
Voitech Kubelka |
Breeding of the Northern Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus) in the Czech Republic and current problems of their conservation |
| 17:30-17:50 |
Ian Dillon |
Breeding Waders in Lowland England: a ray of hope through higher level agri-environment schemes |
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18:00-19:00 |
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POSTER SESSION |
| 19:00-21:00 |
dinner |
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| 21:00-24:00 |
Ceilidh |
Gillie Dhu |
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| SUNDAY |
25 September |
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Numbers and distribution |
| 09:00-09:20 |
Ron Summers |
Trans-Atlantic migration by Nearctic Purple Sandpipers |
| 09:20-09:40 |
Lucy Malpas |
The abundance of Redshank breeding on saltmarshes in Great Britain: preliminary results from a 2011 survey |
| 09:40-10:00 |
Valentyn Serebryakov |
Recent status of Great Snipe in Ukraine |
| 10:00-10:20 |
Heather McCallum |
Habitat use by Northern Lapwings at a high density site in upland Scotland |
| 10:20-10:50 |
Pavel Tomkovich |
Geographic populations or flyway populations - what do we need to know for wader conservation purposes? |
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coffee/tea break |
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Genetics, pollution and population studies |
| 11:20-11:50 |
Nellie Rönkä |
Genetic diversity, range-wide colonization history and dispersal of a Palearctic wader, the Temminck's Stint (Calidris temminckii) |
| 11:50-12:10 |
Krijn Trimbos |
Genetic structure of the Dutch and global Black-tailed Godwit breeding populations |
| 12:10-12:30 |
Magali Lucia |
Trace element concentrations and metallothionein levels in waders stating and wintering in the Pertuis Charentais, France |
| 12:30-12:50 |
Muhammad Iqbal |
Wader population trends on the Banyuasin Peninsula during 1985-2008, Sumatra, Indonesia |
| 12:50-13:00 |
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CONFERENCE CLOSING |
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| 13:00-14:00 |
lunch |
if remaining at the hotel |
| 13:20 |
take packed lunch |
buses leave for EXCURSION |
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| 19:00-21:00 |
dinner |
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| from 21:00 |
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workshop: Measuring moult |
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| MONDAY |
26 September |
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workshop: Flyway Populations Review |
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| 9:00-9:40 |
David Stoud & Ian Burfield |
Introduction |
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past (IWSG) flyway scale reviews of wader population sizes and trends
(International Wader Studies 15),
the current Birds Directive/BirdLife International review of European bird status (2011-2013),
opportunities for a comprehensive flyway-scale update for the AEWA region 2012-2014
→ implications for conservation policy |
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| 9:40-10:00 |
Marc van Roomen |
What has changed since 2004? - new information from AEWA's 2011 Conservation Status Review |
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| 10:00-10:20 |
Szabolcs Nagy |
AEWA's 2011 Conservation Status Review |
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| 10:20-10:45 |
Tim Dodman |
Current knowledge of African waders. Utilising multiple sources of data and grey literature |
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| 10:45-11:00 |
coffee/tea break |
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| 11:00-11:40 |
David Stroud & Nick Davidson |
Twelve known unknowns: are we better placed to resolve uncertainties identified in 2004?
Facilitated discussion session concerning issues raised in Table 16 at IWS 15 |
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| 11:40-12:30 |
Marc van Roomen et al. |
What do we know about the status of waders in Iran/neighbouring Middle Eastern counties? |
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| 12:30-13:30 |
lunch |
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| 13:30-15:45 |
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Facilitated discussion involving all participants: |
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capture WSG's knowledge and expertise to undertake this review, with respect to:
(a) new population data, and
(b) new information on delimitation of different populations of the same species?
For each region we will assess:
What new population data sources exist (e.g. expeditions)?
Where is there expertise (in-country/elsewhere?)
Who might be interested in leading small expert groups to collate new data information for these (or other) regions?
How can we review and capture new information from published literature?
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| 15:45-16:00 |
David Stroud |
Summary and next steps |
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| 16:00-16:30 |
tea/coffee break |
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| 19:00-21:00 |
dinner |
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