| FRIDAY |
1 October |
| arrival |
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| SATURDAY |
2 October |
| 09:00-10:00 |
AGM |
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coffee break |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Clive Minton |
40 years International Wader Study Group |
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Breeding biology |
| 11:00-11:15 |
Robert Thomson |
Lost-opportunities to sire offspring: the cost of parental care in Temminck's Stint males |
| 11:15-11:30 |
Phil Holland |
Recruitment in a Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) study |
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coffee break |
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Management of grassland meadows |
| 11:45-12:00 |
Jennifer Smart |
Here today, gone tomorrow: Predation issues and practical solutions |
| 12:00-12:15 |
Rebecca Laidlaw |
Influence of landscape and habitat on the distribution of breeding wader mammalian predators and their alternative small mammal prey |
| 12:15-12:30 |
Veli-Matti Pakanen |
Management risks in grazed coastal meadows |
| 12:30-12:45 |
Heather McCullum |
Is land management driving the unusually high densities of breeding waders at an upland livestock farm in Scotland? |
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lunch break |
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Ecology and spatial patterns |
| 14:30-14:45 |
Veronica Mendez |
Spatial and temporal patterns in wader community composition on British estuaries |
| 14:45-15:00 |
Vitaly Polyakov |
The influence of nature cycles on wader distribution and population dynamics in the forest-steppe zone of Western Siberia |
| 15:00-15:15 |
Magdalena Remisiewicz |
Geographical trends in the timing of moult of Little Stints in Africa south of the equator |
| 15:15-15:30 |
Kaoutra Elmaroufi |
Microdistribution and ecological preferences of communities of water birds: application to the lower Loukkos wetlands complex in Morocco |
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coffee break |
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Foraging ecology |
| 15:45-16:00 |
Andrey Shubin |
Feeding rate of migrant sandpipers foraging on small invertebrates at the Elton Lake |
| 16:00-16:15 |
Carlos Santos |
Choosing the best foraging microhabitats: individual skills constrain the choices of Dunlins |
| 16:15-16:30 |
Yulia Kasatkina |
Food supply affecting aggressive and spacing behavior of migrating Little Stints |
| 16:30-16:45 |
Nuno Cidraes-Vieira |
Estimating intake rates: which way is the best? |
| 16:45-17:00 |
Adriaan Dokter |
Timing of roosting and foraging flights of shorebirds in the western Wadden Sea: a radar study |
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coffee break |
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Immunocompetence and disease |
| 17:15-17:30 |
Jorge Gutierrez |
Downregulation of basal metabolic rate in an immune-challenged migratory shorebird copping with food-limited conditions |
| 17:30-17:45 |
Sara Pardal |
Vector-borne diseases detected on migratory shorebirds caught in two major Portuguese wetlands |
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| 17:45-19:00 |
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POSTER SESSION |
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| SUNDAY |
3 October |
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Wader studies in Mauritania |
| 09:00-09:30 |
Theunis Piersma |
Is 30 years of research activities long-term? Why the Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania, is so special and so important for shorebirds, and how things change |
| 09:30-09:45 |
Jutta Leyrer |
Habitat heterogeneity and persistent demographic structuring in Red Knots wintering at the Banc d’Arguin, Mauritania |
| 09:45-10:00 |
Piet van den Hout |
Why young birds forage at nutritionally poor and dangerous places: classical food-safety trade-offs mediated by variation in foraging ability |
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coffee break |
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Staging ecology and migration |
| 10:15-10:30 |
Eldar Rakhimberdiev |
Bearing on the wintering grounds: Navigators and deck boys in migrating Ruffs |
| 10:30-10:45 |
Aonghais Cook |
Greenshank turnover at a migratory staging site |
| 10:45-11:00 |
Piotr Minias |
Wingtip shape influences fat load in the first-year Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago during autumn migration |
| 11:00-11:15 |
Radowlaw Wlodarczyk |
Feeding conditions determine interannual stopover site fidelity of inland waders on their autumn migration |
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coffee break |
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Genetics and geographic variability |
| 11:45-12:00 |
Tómas Gunnarsson |
Rapid changes in the distribution of phenotypes in an expanding shorebird population |
| 12:00-12:15 |
Pavel Tomkovich |
Unsolved issues of geographical variability and intraspecific taxonomy in waders of Eastern Europe and Northern Asia |
| 12:15-12:30 |
Tiago Rodrigues |
Two allopatric Common Snipe meet in the Azores Islands |
| 12:30-12:45 |
Guillermo Fernández |
Population structure and genetic identity of Western Sandpipers |
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lunch break |
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Population trends and global change |
| 14:30-15:00 |
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tba |
| 15:00-15:15 |
Muhammad Iqbal |
Wader population trends in the Banyuasin Peninsula (Sumatra, Indonesia) between 1985-2008 |
| 15:15-15:30 |
Hong-Yan Yang |
What will be their final fate? Red Knots (Calidris canutus piersmai and C. c. rogersi) depend on a small threatened staging area in Bohai Bay, China |
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coffee break |
| 15:45-16:00 |
Pierrick Bocher |
Long term trends, distribution and status of Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa in France |
| 16:00-16:15 |
Gwenaël Quaintenne |
History and status of Red Knot in France |
| 16:15-16:30 |
Guillaume Gélinaud |
Variation in the distribution and abundance of Pied Avocets (Recurvirostra avocetta) wintering in Western Europe |
| 16:30-16:45 |
Sophie Kohler |
Are African Black Oystercatchers good indicators of large-scale trends in intertidal communities? A stable isotope study |
| 16:45-17:00 |
Bruno Ens |
The impact of climate change on Oystercatchers |
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coffee break |
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Demography and population dynamics |
| 17:15-17:30 |
Maja Roodbergen |
Population dynamics of Black-tailed Godwits |
| 17:30-17:45 |
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tba |
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coffee break |
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| 18:00-19:00 |
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CONFERENCE CLOSING |
