The scientific program included oral presentations and poster presentations. The oral presentations ran from 08:00-17:30
every day from Wednesday, 4 Oct. through Saturday, 7 October. Each day opened with a plenary lecture, followed by selected society awards and announcements, then a refreshment break. The oral presentations ran from 10:00-17:30 each day, with eight parallel concurrent oral sessions, including both symposia and general sessions. There were two poster sessions, Wednesday and Friday, from 19:30-22:00.
The IV NAOC Scientific Program includes 24 symposia. The symposia, with their session chairs, are listed below. To see the abstracts accepted for each session, please click the title of each symposium below:
| SS01 |
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Emerging Infectious Wildlife Diseases: Impacts on Birds and the Role of Ornithology
Co-chairs: Ellen Paul, Scott Newman, Fabian Correa, and Dana Hawley |
| SS02 |
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Population Status and Ecology of Royal and Sandwich Terns in the Americas
Co-chairs: Steven Emslie, and Pablo Yorio |
| SS03 |
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Systematics, Genetic Diversity and Conservation of Raptors
Chair: David Mindell. and Jeff A. Johnson |
| SS04 |
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Alexander F. Skutch Memorial Symposium
Chairs:
Elissa M. Landre, and Gary Stiles |
| SS05 |
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Ecology of Migrant Birds in Winter
Co-chairs: Peter P. Marra,, and T. Scott Sillett |
| SS06 |
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Colonial Waterbirds on Urban Islands: Indicators of Ecosystem Health in a Complex Environment
Co-chairs: Susan Elbin,, and Chip Weseloh |
| SS07 |
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ABC/PIF Conservation 2006
Co-chairs: Terry Rich, and George Wallace |
| SS08 |
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Raptor Migration: Ecology and Conservation in the New World
Co-chairs: Keith Bildstein, Ernesto Ruelas Inzunza, Chris Farmer, and Eduardo Iñigo-Elias (eei2@cornell.edu) |
| SS09 |
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Migration Routes and Winter Ranges of Oceanic Seabirds
Co-chairs: David Hyrenbach, and John Croxall |
| SS10 |
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Swallows of the Americas: Comparative Approaches to Exploring Processes Affecting Behavioral Decisions and Demographic Patterns in Birds
Co-chairs: David Winkler, Robert Clark, Russell Dawson, Dave Shutler, and Juan Carlos Reboreda |
| SS11 |
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Avian Distributional Change, Anthropogenic Challenges, and Recent Avian Research and Technological Advances within the US-Mexico Border Region
Co-chairs: David Krueper, Tim Brush, Carol Beardmore, and Bill Howe |
| SS12 |
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Avian Conservation in Mexico
Co-chairs: Eduardo Palacios, Eduardo Iñigo-Elias, and Eduardo Santana |
| SS13 |
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Cuban Ornithology: Research and Conservation of Migrant and Resident Birds
Co-chairs: John Fitzpatrick,
Humberto Berlanga and Eduardo Iñigo-Elias |
| SS14 |
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Compañeros en Vuelo Mesoamerica (Partners in Flight Mesoamerica)
Co-chairs: José M. Zolotoff, and Carol Beidleman |
| SS15 |
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The Promise of Multi-stakeholder Management Initiatives for the Cerulean Warbler
Co-chairs: Jason Jones, Paul Hamel, David Mehlman and Petra Wood |
| SS16 |
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The Boreal’s Birds: Threads that Tie Together America’s Ecosystems
Chair: Jeff Wells |
| SS17 |
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The Effects of Environmental Pollution on Birds: From Physiology to Populations
Co-chairs: Ralph S. Hames, and David Evers |
| SS18 |
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New Directions in Urban Bird Ecology and Conservation
Co-chairs: Christopher A. Lepczyk, and Paige S. Warren |
| SS19 |
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Constraints on the Evolutionary Diversification of the Life Histories of Temperate and Tropical Birds
Chair: Robert E. Ricklefs |
| SS20 |
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Evolutionary and Ecological Perspectives of Sexual Selection
Co-chairs: Jacqueline K. Nooker, and Melissah Rowe |
| SS21 |
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Systematics and Comparative Avian Biology in the 21st Century
Co-chairs: Robert Zink, George F. Barrowclough, and Joel Cracraft |
| SS22 |
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Bird Monitoring Networks of the Americas: From Census to Outreach
Co-chairs: Lesley-Anne Howes, C.J. Ralph, and Steven Kelling |
| SS23 |
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Avian Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology in the New Millennium
Co-chairs: Andrew E. McKechnie, Scott McWilliams, and Blair O. Wolf |
| SS24 |
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The Challenges of Intercontinental Migration: Eastern and Western Perspectives
Co-chairs: Frank R. Moore, Susan Skagen, and Charles Van Riper |
