Congress Schedule
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Time Table
This is an interim time table.
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| Tuesday 19 | Wednesday 20 | Thursday 21 | Saturday 23 | Sunday 24 | |
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| MORNING PLENARY (08:30-) | |||||
| Plen1 | Franz Bairlein | Tim Blackburn | Katherine Renton | Helen James | Vicki Friesen |
| MORNING 7 or 8 PARALLEL SYMPOSIA (10:00-) | |||||
| Symp | S07 To understand what birds actually see: toward a newer synthesis of visual perception and methods to study coloration | S01 The avifauna of the Sino-Himalayas: history, ecology, (no?) future. | S17 Avian Phylogeography in East Asia | S04 Birds and agroecosystems: experiences from the tropics | S06 Avian reintroductions in changing environments |
| Symp | S10 Physiological factors influencing migratory strategies | S02 Rice fields as a model system for studying bird ecology and conservation. | S25 Developmental stress beyond bird song: Can early life stressors engineer physiology and behavior for harsh environments? | S21 Avian Neurosteroids: Biosynthesis and Biological Action | S13 Avian dispersal: Implications for speciation, community build-up and migration |
| Symp | S11 Invasive species and Pacific island bird conservation | S05 Recent advances in the study of Psittaciformes: breeding biology, population ecology and phylogeography. | S27 Non-native birds as natural experiments: ecological and evolutionary change during biological invasions. | S28 Avian cognition in natural populations | S24 Fire regimes and bird population responses. |
| Symp | S12 Evolution and behavioral adaptation of waterbirds flying in the air and in the water | S14 Neural plasticity and the waxing and waning of cognition in birds | S31 Birds in space: is individual variation relevant? | S29 The value of long-term ringing data in ornithology | S35 Lifelong individual development as an important component of life history |
| Symp | S15 Social complexity, vocal communication and cooperation | S22 Sensory and molecular genetics mechanisms of migratory traits | S33 Departure decisions in nocturnal migrants | S30 Ecophysiology of Circannual and Long-term Timing Mechanisms: Recent Advances | S37 Genomes and the evolution of modern birds |
| Symp | S16 Radar Aeroecology | S23 Avian brood parasitism - novel findings and new puzzles | S34 Effects of radiation on birds and other organisms: Chernobyl, Fukushima and beyond | S38 Evolutionary Morphology of Birds: New Methods and Concepts | S40 Turning the tide for East Asia’s migratory shorebirds |
| Symp | S20 Avian nest predation: New perspectives | S26 Plasticity in birdsong production | S39 Ethno-ornithology: Birds, Culture & Conservation | S45 Avian phylogenetics: advances in understanding of Old World passerine evolution | S46 Recent insights on sexual selection from avian models |
| Symp | S42 Nutritional satisfaction: new perspectives on how birds acquire necessary energy and nutrients | S43 Ecological immunology at 30: a midlife crisis or newfound opportunity? | S48 Physiological mechanisms underlying individual variation in life-history traits | S47 Patterns and mechanisms of metabolic flexibility in birds | AFTERNOON PLENARY (13:30-) |
| Plen2 | Kazuo Okanoya | Fred Sheldon | John Maina | Cao Lei | Hugh Possingham | AFTERNOON : 8 PARALLEL ORAL SESSIONS / 7 SYMPOSIA ON LAST AFTERNOON (16:30-) |
| Oral | o01 Biogeography & Paleontology | o09 Community Ecology 2 | o17 Conservation 2 | o25 Conservation of migratory birds | S03 Light in the darkness: how does artificial night lighting influence bird behaviour and ecology? |
| Oral | o02 Bird-human interactions | o10 Conservation 1 | o18 Social Interactions | o26 Migration 2 | S08 Why Birds Matter: Birds’ Ecological Functions, Ecosystem Services, and Value to Society. |
| Oral | o03 Cognition & Signalling | o11 Evolutionary Ecology | o19 Migration 1 | o27 Disease | S09 Vocal communication and vocal control in sub-oscine and oscine passerines. |
| Oral | o04 Community Ecology 1 | o12 Population Structure | o20 Parasites & immunity | o28 Sexual Behaviour 1 | S36 Colour polymorphisms |
| Oral | o05 Conservation Techniques | o13 Sexual Behaviour 2 | 21 Phylogeography & Phylogenetics | o29 Foraging Patterns | S41 Persistent organic pollutants - lasting problems and new aspects in migratory birds. |
| Oral | o06 Reproductive Behaviour | o14 Global Change | o22 Physiology | o30 Functional Morphology | S44 New finds and old bones - integrative palaeornithology for the 21st century |
| Oral | o07 Dispersal | o15 Hormones & Stress | o23 Population Ecology | o31 Song | |
| Oral | o08 Evolution | o16 Life history | o24 Evolutionary Morphology | o32 Species conservation | |
| EVENING: ROUND TABLES (20:00-) | |||||
| RTD01 (19:00-21:00) Restoring seabird breeding colonies invaded by rats and other introduced mammals in Japan and Korea | RTD13 The birds at Fukushima-daiichi NPP and Tohoku Tsunami area, present and future, or good ornithology for and by the people | RCC01 Meeting of the Research Coordination Committee on Parrots (RCCP) | |||
| RTD02 Establishing, promoting, and coordinating research needs and priorities for a globally endangered avian order, the Psittaciformes, through global cooperation | RTD14 EWA ? the Ethno-ornithology World Archive | RTD07 eBird: an increasingly powerful tool for science and conservation | |||
| RTD03 Discussing the causes of the population declines of Eurasian Tree Sparrows in Japan and House Sparrows in Europe | RTD15 East Asia-Australasian Flyway shorebird research and conservation needs | RTD05 Avian functional morphology and the fossil record: Integrating structure and function across time | |||
| RTD04 Applications of Unmanned Vehicle Systems (UAS) for Avian Studies | RTD09 Restoration of Tern Breeding Colonies: State of the Art for Global Conservation Efforts | ||||
| RTD08 What can we learn from flight calls of migrants? | RTD06 Cooperative project for sharing monitoring data of wildfowls in East Asia | ||||
| RTD10 Land bird monitoring in eastern Asia | RCC02 17th Scheduled Meeting of the Research Coordination Committee on Avian Nomenclature (formerly Standing Committee on Ornithological Nomenclature) | ||||
| RTD12 Current status of avian morphology | RTD11 Biodiversity and the rare Japanese Murrelet at Kaminoseki: ”The Sea of Miracles” and Kaminoseki nuclear power plant planning | ||||