Symposia
Symposia topics and participants this year include:
- A beginner’s guide to collecting and preparing museum specimens. AOU Committee on Bird Collections
- Trends in avian incubation. Suzanne H. Austin and Christopher R. Olson
- New answers from old specimens. Marina Anciães, Carla Cicero, A. Townsend Peterson
- Occupancy estimation and modeling in ecology and conservation biology. Steven R. Beissinger and James D. Nichols
- Social information use by birds in habitat selection. Matthew Betts and Joseph Nocera
- The influence of noise on birds and bird studies. Jessica Blickley, Clinton Francis, and Catherine Ortega
- Avian dispersal: Case studies in contrasting behaviors, environments and methodological approaches. Jeff Brawn and Jeff Walters
- Applications of stress endocrinology to conservation. Shallin Busch and Lisa Hayward
- Free-ranging cats and bird conservation. Nico Dauphiné
- Biogeography, systematics, and evolution of Pacific Island birds. Robert C. Fleischer and John P. Dumbacher
- Using breeding bird atlases to enhance bird conservation. Charles M. Francis and Andrew R. Couturier
- Avian habitat restoration: What is success and how do we measure it? Tom Gardali and Nathaniel Seavy
- The physiological underpinnings of carry-over effects. Rebecca L. Holberton and Peter P. Marra
- Ecology and conservation of North American nightjars. Pamela Hunt and David King
- Conservation of endemic island birds of Oceania. Dylan Kesler
- Using trace element and stable isotope analyses to study avian movement and habitat use. Matthew Johnson
- Body condition of birds: the search for the Holy Grail. Scott R. McWilliams and Christopher G. Guglielmo
- Individual adaptation, population differentiation, and conservation of adaptive variation in Song Sparrows. Christin L. Pruett and Peter Arcese
- Biogeography of birds in the southeastern Himalayas – center of endemism or many species in marginal habitats? Swen C. Renner and John H. Rappole
- Advances in the study of avian demography. Brett K. Sandercock
- The impact of wind energy development on birds. Jill Shaffer and Laura Nagy
- Avian CSI: Ornithology, forensics, and conservation law enforcement. Pepper W. Trail
- Contemporary issues in Osprey ecology and conservation. Brian E. Washburn, Alan F. Poole, Richard O. Bierregaard, Jr., Mark Martell, and Brian S. Dorr