PAOC12 welCOme - 12th Pan-African Ornithological Congress

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PAOC12 welCOme

I welcome you to the Twelfth Pan-African Ornithological Congress, PAOC12. I do this on behalf of the three host institutions, the A.P. Leventis Ornithological Research Institute (APLORI) at the University of Jos, Nigeria, and the Percy Fitzpatrick Institute of African Ornithology (the Fitz) and the Animal Demography Unit (ADU), both at the University of Cape Town.

When you stop to think about it, PAOCs happen every four years, and this is the 12th, so we must be some-where near our 50th anniversary. In reality, the intervals between PAOCs varied from three years to seven years. The first PAOC was in fact held in 1957, in Livingstone, Zambia. So PAOC12 is as close to 50 years from the start as we will get.

Africa is the first continent to have a “continental” ornithological congress. The Europeans did not get that right until 1997! The story of how the Pan-African Ornithological Congress came into being is one that bears retelling. In 1954, Cecily Niven suggested that the 12th International Ornithological Congress (IOC) be held in southern Africa. The competing invitation was from Finland, and IOC13 took place there. The IOC finally came to Africa in 1998, when IOC22 was held in Durban, South Africa.

But the idea of an ornithological congress in Africa took root, and came to fruition within three years. Michel Louette and Emil Urban have done a great service by writing the history of the first 11 Pan-African Ornithological Congresses in the proceedings of PAOC11 (Louette & Urban 2007). Michel and Emil, the latter is sadly unable to attend PAOC12, have attended virtually all of the PAOCs since PAOC3.

Terry Oatley attended PAOC1, and he will join us for the opening day of PAOC12. Such was his enthusiasm to attend the PAOC, that he traveled from Durban to Livingstone on a motor bike.

All of us have made a journey to be here, either short or long, maybe as arduous as Terry’s epic drive in 1957. You are all most welcome. If we can make your stay at Goudini Spa more comfortable please come and talk to us.

Two local institutions are even older than the PAOC, and celebrate their 60th anniversaries in 2008. These are the Cape Bird Club, the branch of BirdLife South Africa in this corner of South Africa. Peter Steyn will do a presentation on Monday evening. When Peter is the speaker at a club evening, the venue is packed. 2008 is also the 60th anniversary of bird ringing in South Africa; there is a symposium focusing on ringing in Africa, and there will be demonstrations of bird ringing in the early mornings.

My colleague John Cooper and I wrote a short note called How to attend a scientific conference to your best advantage. It gets given to ADU students when they attend their first conferences. The short version is included in this programme (see p. iv–v). The sound byte version runs like this: “Use the opportunity presented here to network – keep a long distance from all the colleagues you can talk to every day”.

On p. 131 you will find Meredith Thornton’s glossary of South Africanisms. If you can’t understand the peculiar brand of English we speak, take refuge here. In South Africa, “just now” does NOT mean “immedi-ately”, it means “sometime before the next millennium”.

I am grateful to the tiny handful of people who have done the lion’s share of the organisation. Doug Harebottle and Glaudin Kruger must be singled out for special mention. We are also particularly grateful to Tasso Leventis – the Leventis Conservation Trust enabled us to pay the deposit on the Goudini Spa Conference Centre – who has been a great supporter of ornithology in Africa, particularly Nigeria, where APLORI was established in 2001. APLORI is making no fewer than 17 presentations at this congress.

Les G UnderhillChair: National Organising Committee

Reference: Louette, M. & Urban, E.K. 2007. Overview of the eleven Pan-African Ornithological Congresses. Ostrich 78(2): xiii–xxiv.

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PAOC Committee

President: Dr Christine Dranzoa Chair: Mr Oliver Nasirwa Mr Houssein Rayaleh Dr Muchai Muchane

Mr Abdoulaye Ndiaye Prof. Boudjema Samraoui Dr Augustine U. Ezealor

Prof. Ali El Hili Mr Mokoko Okonja Jerome Dr Martin Nhlane M. Wenceslas Gatarabirwa

Dr Laurent Ntahuga Dr. H.F. Rakotomanana Mr Doug Harebottle

Mr Kabelo Senyatso Dr Adrain Craig Dr Thomas Cook Dr Mark O’Connell

Dr Ulf Ottosson Dr Jan Wannink Mr Samuel Kofi Nyame

Mr Tim Dodman Dr Julius Arinatwe Dr Leon Bennun ABC Representative

BirdLife International Representative

Scientific Committee

Chairman: Mr Doug Harebottle Prof. Adrain Craig Dr H.F. Rakotomanana Dr Muchane Muchai

Finance Committee

Chairman: Prof. Ali El Hili Dr Thomas Brooks Dr Jan Wanink Prof. Boudjema Samraoui

National Organising Committee

Chairman: Prof. Les Underhill Mr Doug Harebottle Mr Mark Anderson Mrs Glaudin Kruger

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message from the Chair of the Scientific Programme Committee

Dear Colleagues

My appreciation to all presenters for their contributions to this twelfth congress. The programme is relatively diverse and I think it will offer delegates a wide selection of interesting and stimulating topics. Likewise Africa’s avifauna is diverse, but many species are under threat - it is my hope that this congress will stimulate constructive discussion amongst colleagues and put in place conservation actions that will continue to preserve birds and their habitats across the continent.

I would like to thank my fellow committee members, Professor Adrian Craig, Doctors Hanjanirina Rakotomanana and Muchane Muchai for their assistance, support and guidance, and Mr Mark Anderson for his help and input, regarding the planning of the scientific programme and editing of the abstracts.

With best wishes for a successful congressDoug Harebottle

Instructions to PAOC Participants

Orals (Papers)

All delegates should hand their PowerPoint presentations in to the Secretariat as soon as possible after registration. The final hand-in time for each presentation is the evening prior to the day on which the oral takes place.

Posters

Posters will be numbered; during the coffee breaks each day, authors assigned to “odd numbers” or “even numbers” should be present at their posters so that delegates wishing to discuss their work can meet with them.

Proceedings

All plenaries, papers and posters, plus summaries of round-table meetings, presented at the congress can be submitted for publication in the congress proceedings. The proceedings for PAOC12 will be published on-line and on CD.

Please take note of the Instructions to Authors, and ensure that the full manuscript is submitted by 31 October 2008. Should manuscripts not be received by the final submission date, the corresponding abstract will be published in the proceedings.

Instructions to Authors

Authors are asked to kindly follow the following instructions and format when preparing their papers

l Only electronic submissions can be accepted. Please send your paper either as an attachment to an email to [email protected] or on CD to Doug Harebottle, Animal Demography Unit, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa. You can also submit your paper(s) during the congress. These should be supplied on a Flashdrive or CD.

l Papers can be submitted in either English or French. Abstracts should be limited to 300 words.

l Text: this follows the conventions used in the Wader Study Group Bulletin. Paper titles and author(s) names to be Times New Roman (14 pt) all other text to be Times New Roman (12 pt). Please follow the conventions for keywords, abstract (summary), headings, cited references, reference lists etc. as in the example given on the PAOC12 website (http://paoc12.adu.org.za/docs/wsgbull_example.pdf). Please take note of the following: cited references in the text are listed alphabeti-cally, not in date order.

l Figures: Please ensure that the resolution of all figures is at least 300 dots per inch (dpi). Please do not copy figures into the text file but provide them separately in their original format. EPS, PS, TIFF and PDF files are suitable. Figures imported into MSWord files are unsuitable for typesetting as their resolution is much too low.

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The golden rule of conference attendance is simple. Escape the bubble of your cozy group of colleagues. Keep a degree of space between yourself and the people you can interact with at home when you are not at the conference, so as to allow time to meet new people, have useful conversations with them and hopefully establish long-lasting professional relationships. However, do touch sides with your own people, if only for de-briefing, at least once a day. In this way you will be able to act as a colleague should, introducing your new acquaintances and friends (and meeting theirs), and mooting joint research programmes and the like.

If you do form a group from among your colleagues, for example to have lunch at the conference venue, try every time to invite one or two of your new acquaintances to join you. There are always conference attendees without home colleagues who will welcome such invitations. Much good business comes out of the informal conversations that take place at such times: even sitting beside the right person on the bus can pay dividends!

Although you may think the most important thing at a conference is attending as many talks and poster sessions as feasible, and making your own presentation, the really most important business of all is transacted outside the formal sessions. So do not feel you are letting your sponsor down by missing a talk or two to hold or to continue a conversation which you think will be important to you, either by gaining specific knowledge you think you will need, or by establish-ing a good contact who may help with your future career, or next piece of planned research. Important things happen “in the margins” of the conference. This is where you may find yourself a PhD supervisor, a postdoctoral position, where you find new research partners, where you seek out invita-tions for visits to research institutes, where you find yourself a sabbatical position, where you find yourself a job, where you make yourself available for election to the executive committee, where you offer to organize the next conference, where you find Ph.D. students to supervise and postdocs to mentor, where you find staff, where you find examiners for Ph.D. theses, etc. If you don’t come home from the confer-ence both exhausted but also fulfilled, and with a notepad full of new contacts and ideas, something probably went wrong somewhere. However, missing sessions for activities such as bird-watching and shopping is unethical, unless you are paying your own way completely out of your own pocket. Although you are may not hear an adverse comment, your absences do not go unnoticed.

If there are parallel sessions, choose your session care-fully. It often is a disaster to move between parallel sessions, because it is quite rare for the conference timekeeping to be good enough to make this reliable. If there are no talks to go to that particularly interest you, go and learn about something new. Look at the posters carefully. If there is one that interests

How to attend a scientific conference to your best advantage

John Cooper and Les G. Underhill

Animal Demography Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7701 South Africa

you, search out the owner and discuss it with her/him.When you get your conference pack, look carefully

through the name and address list of people attending. If you see that people whom you want to meet are attending, make a list of them and search them out. You can do this in at least two ways: look at the name badges, or ask people if they can point out ABC to you. If you have read one of their papers, you can say: “Hi, I’m DEF, and I found your paper in HIJ on XYZ very interesting and helpful.” That little bit of flattery ought to get you into conversation. If these high fliers are abrupt with you, it is their problem, not yours. You really need to work hard, right from the start of the conference, to meet all the people you want to talk to. Ask your colleagues, and especially your supervisor, to make introductions for you. If you tend to be on the shy side, this is a good way to get to meet new people, especially the more senior ones. A good supervisor or senior colleague will make the introduc-tion, start the conversation going with a statement on what interesting work you have been doing, ask you a question she/he already knows you will be able to answer well, perhaps make an interjection or two, then excuse him/herself, leav-ing you well introduced and feeling confident to continue the conversation on your own.

If you have a laptop with you, transfer the notes on paper into a file of things to do once you get home, organized in some more rational way than the sequential paper notes: ideas; emails to send off as soon as you get home (many of these ought to be thank you emails, to anyone who was help-ful in some way – ideas, discussions, took you out for a meal, future invitations, gave you a reprint, etc). Small courtesies pay long-term dividends.

If you are a MSc/PhD student and your supervisor or other sponsor has paid for your conference costs, what does he or she expect of you? Primarily, you should do your presentation to the best of your ability:

Meet your session chair in advance, preferably the previ-ous day. Ask for an introduction if you do not know her/him. Ensure the chair knows the facts about you and your work which you would like to be made public. Hand in your pre-sentation as requested – listen carefully for the instructions about this. Check that it projects properly yourself, do NOT leave this to anyone else. Be ready for a problem with the audio-visual equipment and do not panic if your illustrations do not immediately come up on the screen, just solve the problem, or ask for help, and then proceed.

Keep to time. Practice if you feel you need to ensure this. Present your talk to your colleagues at home first and listen to their criticisms and act on them.

Speak slowly and distinctly and avoid slang, jokes and irrelevant “wake-up” pictures at all costs. In general, most members in your audience will not have English as their home language. Be respectful of them. If you use a term specific

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to your discipline, explain parenthetically. For example: “I measured the width of the parietal bone, a bone at the front of the skull…”. Explain abbreviations the first time they are used. Stick to simple English words, and stick to one term for each concept: no need to use “elegant variation”. An example: “tail feather” is much better than ”rectrix”. Don’t use slang. It is “kilometres”, not “kims” or “kays”; such loose talking is unprofessional and disrespectful to the audience.

If you need to use the terms for the seasons, you need to make it clear which hemisphere you are in – this is particu-larly important if you are doing a “southern hemisphere” talk and most of your audience is from the northern hemisphere. You need to make it clear then that you are talking about the southern summer, because when you say “summer”, northern hemispherists think “June, July and August”. Technically the northern seasons are boreal and the southern seasons are austral, so you can take about the austral summer, but even this is not widely understood in the northern hemisphere. Best of all, try to paraphrase round these confusions.

Check your voice volume with a colleague in the empty lecture room in advance. She/he is in the back row, can you be heard clearly? If you know you have a tendency to speak softly, or mumble, this is critically important.

It does not matter if you are nervous, everyone in the audi-ence will be nervous when they get up to present, irrespec-tive of their seniority and experience. If you feel extremely nervous at the start, take a drink of water to avoid a dry throat and tell the audience: “This is my first talk to an international audience and I’m a bit nervous, but I am excited about my work and hope you will be too”. Have your starting sentence ready in your head, word perfect. It is best to avoid reading from a prepared text. If you feel you really have to do this, then from time to time, lift up your head, look directly at the

audience and make a few statements that are clearly not in your notes. This will help establish rapport. Far better is to have a few words to prompt you on the laptop adjacent the projected illustration.

Start off with your second-best story and picture, and end on your best. In between be succinct and to the point. Avoid “trailing off” your sentences. At all times never end your talk with something like “… and that’s all I have to say”, end posi-tively with thanking the audience for their attendance. When you start, if you feel the session chair has not introduced you properly by all means say who you are, but briefly. At the end avoid long-winded thanks and acknowledgements, they should rather be on your closing picture. Just say: “I owe a big thanks to my supervisor/colleague Professor John Bloggs and to the Myrtle Aspidastra Bursary Fund.”

Nowadays we have our illustrations on a laptop in front of us. Use this as your prompt. There is no reason, at any time, to turn and face the screen and talk half-turned from, or worse, with your back to the audience. Never walk up to screen and make it move by touching it, neither try to get you hand to cast a shadow on the salient figure. If you need to use a pointer, use a mouse. Laser pointers tend to exag-gerate your nervously shaking limb and annoy the audience. Well-designed illustrations should not need a pointer, rather build the picture in steps to make your points in a logical order. Make sure from your speaking position that all will be able to see your pictures, and check that the writing is legible from the back row. Don’t overload your pictures with detail so you have to say: “Please ignore all the columns except the seventh”. This suggests to the audience you have borrowed a picture from a previous talk at best, and, at worst, that you are not very good . . .

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quis

t, Sc

halk

W.P

. Clo

ete

& M

icha

el I.

Che

rry

Env

ironm

enta

l det

erm

inan

ts o

f con

tinue

d br

eedi

ng a

ttem

pts

by W

attle

d C

rane

s in

K

waZ

ulu-

Nat

al: i

mpl

icat

ions

for

cons

erva

tion

Rich

ard

Petti

for,

Kat

erin

a W

ojta

szek

ova,

An

dré

Rous

souw

, Leo

n Th

eron

, Raj

Am

in &

Kev

in M

cCan

n

12:3

0–14

:00

14:0

0–14

:45

14:4

5 -1

5:30

Peng

uin

Hal

lR

ockj

umpe

r Hal

lSu

nbird

Hal

lB

okm

akie

rie H

all

Har

rier H

all

2a: I

mpa

cts

of c

limat

e ch

ange

on

bird

s in

Afr

ica

2b: C

urre

nt re

sear

ch a

nd

cons

erva

tion

initi

ativ

es o

n A

fric

an

flam

ingo

s (2

)2c

: Bird

–Ind

ustr

y co

nflic

ts (1

)2d

: The

Gre

at R

ift V

alle

y –

A M

ega

Scal

e In

nova

tion

2e

: Ene

rget

ics

and

fora

ging

be

havi

our

15:3

0–15

:55

Eur

opea

n st

udie

s of

bird

s an

d cl

imat

e ch

ange

Mar

cel V

isse

r

Lake

Nat

ron:

Afri

ca’s

mos

t im

porta

nt

Less

er F

lam

ingo

bre

edin

g si

teNe

il B

aker

Ligh

ting

up th

e A

frica

n co

ntin

ent –

wha

t do

es th

is m

ean

for o

ur b

irds?

Jon

Smal

lie, M

egan

Dia

mon

d &

And

rew

Je

nkin

s

The

GR

V a

s an

inte

rdis

cipl

inar

y co

ncep

t in

coo

pera

tion

of 2

2 co

untri

esYo

ssi L

eshe

m

A c

ompa

rison

of s

umm

er a

nd w

inte

r m

etab

olic

rate

s of

Am

ethy

st S

unbi

rds

(Cha

lcom

itra

amet

hyst

ina)

ove

r an

altit

udin

al g

radi

ent

Cla

ire V

. Lin

dsay

, Col

leen

T. D

owns

&

Mar

k B

row

n

15:5

5–16

:20

Bui

ldin

g re

silie

nce

to c

limat

e ch

ange

: an

adap

tive

man

agem

ent f

ram

ewor

k fo

r A

frica

’s Im

porta

nt B

ird A

rea

netw

ork

Dav

id G

. Hol

e, B

rian

Hunt

ley,

Pau

l D

onal

d, L

inco

ln F

ishp

ool,

Stua

rt

But

char

t & S

teph

en W

illis

Cau

ses

of L

esse

r Fla

min

go

Pho

enic

opte

rus

min

or m

orta

lity

in K

enya

, 20

05-2

007

J. L

inds

ay O

aks,

H.L

. Shi

vapr

asad

, Ti

mot

hy W

alsh

, Kev

in S

nekv

ik, T

imot

hy

Mw

inam

i & D

avid

M. H

arpe

r

Cya

nide

from

gol

d m

inin

g an

d bi

rds:

why

ar

e th

e bi

rds

ther

e?He

nk B

ouw

man

, Ian

Sm

ith &

Pet

er L

otz

Con

serv

atio

n of

IB

A’s

in th

e G

RV

: po

tent

ial r

ole

of lo

cal c

omm

uniti

es a

nd

NG

O n

etw

orks

Haze

ll S.

Tho

mps

on &

Leo

n B

ennu

n

Sug

ar p

refe

renc

es o

f nec

tar f

eedi

ng b

irds

– a

com

paris

on o

f exp

erim

enta

l te

chni

ques

Mar

k B

row

n, C

olle

en T

. Dow

ns &

St

even

D. J

ohns

on

16:2

0–16

:45

The

impa

ct o

f clim

ate

chan

ge o

n se

abird

s at

the

Prin

ce E

dwar

d Is

land

s an

d in

the

Ben

guel

a ec

osys

tem

Robe

rt J

.M. C

raw

ford

, Res

Altw

egg,

Az

wia

new

i B. M

akha

do, L

eshi

a Up

fold

&

Bru

ce M

. Dye

r

Sta

tut e

t enj

eux

de c

onse

rvat

ion

des

popu

latio

ns d

u Fl

aman

t ros

e P

hoen

icop

teru

s ro

seus

et d

u Fl

aman

t nai

n P

hoen

icon

aias

min

or e

n A

friqu

e de

l’O

uest

Yelli

Dia

war

a, T

im D

odm

an, A

ntoi

ne

Arna

ud, A

rnau

d B

éche

t & A

nton

io

Arau

jo

Airp

ort b

ird h

azar

d co

ntro

l pro

gram

mes

–

effe

ctiv

e so

lutio

ns fo

r Afri

can

airp

orts

Albe

rt F

rone

man

& C

laire

Pat

ters

on-

Abro

lat

The

role

of a

dvoc

acy

in s

avin

g th

reat

ened

sp

ecie

s: a

cas

e st

udy

of t

he L

esse

r Fl

amin

gos

Pho

enic

opte

rus

min

or a

nd

Lake

Nat

ron

Ken

Mw

athe

, Haz

ell S

. Tho

mps

on &

Ja

ne G

aith

uma

Die

l var

iatio

ns in

blo

od g

luco

se le

vels

in

Mal

achi

te S

unbi

rds

at d

iffer

ent

tem

pera

ture

sAn

drea

E. W

ellm

ann,

Col

leen

T. D

owns

&

Mar

k B

row

n

16:4

5–17

:10

The

impo

rtanc

e of

the

Wes

tern

Cap

e po

pula

tion

of B

lue

Cra

nes

to th

eir g

loba

l po

pula

tion

in th

e fa

ce o

f clim

ate

chan

ge:

impl

icat

ions

for c

onse

rvat

ion

Car

men

B. G

omes

, Raj

Am

in, L

eon-

Jacq

ues

Ther

on, H

elen

Prin

sloo

, Kev

in

Shaw

& R

icha

rd P

ettif

or

Trac

king

the

mov

emen

ts o

f fla

min

gos

at a

la

rge

geog

raph

ic s

cale

: the

ban

d-re

sigh

ting

stud

y of

the

Gre

ater

Fla

min

go

met

apop

ulat

ion

in th

e M

edite

rrane

an a

nd

Wes

t Afri

caAr

naud

Béc

het ,

Chr

isto

phe

Ger

mai

n &

An

toin

e Ar

naud

Is a

ir po

llutio

n a

thre

at to

the

Blu

e S

wal

low

H

irund

o at

roca

erue

lea?

Henr

ik K

ylin

, Hen

k B

ouw

man

& S

teve

n Ev

ans

The

cont

ribut

ion

ring

ing

has

mad

e to

the

stud

y of

bird

mig

ratio

n pa

ttern

s an

d bi

rd

cons

erva

tion

in A

frica

, with

a fo

cus

on th

e G

reat

Rift

Val

ley

Prze

mys

law

Bus

se

Diu

rnal

pat

tern

s of

mas

s ga

in in

trop

ical

gr

aniv

ores

bes

t ref

lect

s te

mpe

ratu

re

cons

train

ts ra

ther

than

the

star

vatio

n–pr

edat

ion

risk

trade

-off

Shiiw

ua M

anu

& W

ill C

ress

wel

l

15:

30–1

7:35

Con

curr

ent s

ympo

sia

Cof

fee

brea

k an

d po

ster

ses

sion

(eve

n nu

mbe

rs)

Lunc

h

2: P

lena

ry:

Clim

ate

chan

ge a

nd b

irds:

a s

outh

ern

hem

isph

ere

pers

pect

ive

(Dr L

ynda

Cha

mbe

rs, A

ustr

alia

) - P

engu

in H

all

Page 8

17:1

0–17

:35

The

effe

cts,

if a

ny, o

f clim

ate

chan

ge o

n M

otac

illa c

lara

Stev

en P

iper

Nor

th A

frica

’s G

reat

er F

lam

ingo

ban

ding

op

erat

ion:

wha

t hav

e w

e le

arne

d so

far?

Bou

djém

a Sa

mra

oui,

Arna

ud B

éche

t, C

hris

toph

e G

erm

ain,

Mou

loud

B

oulk

hssa

ïm &

Far

rah

Sam

raou

i

Res

earc

h fa

cilit

y fo

r stu

dyin

g vu

lture

el

ectro

cutio

ns o

n po

wer

line

s: ra

tiona

le,

desi

gn a

nd p

relim

inar

y re

sults

Joha

n M

.J. v

an S

tade

n

The

sign

ifica

nce

of th

e G

reat

Rift

Val

ley

as a

n av

ian

mig

rato

ry fl

yway

Haze

ll S.

Tho

mps

on &

Leo

n B

ennu

n

Diff

eren

ces

in fo

ragi

ng e

colo

gy o

f Afri

can

Pen

guin

s at

two

site

s of

con

trast

ing

popu

latio

n tre

nds:

is fo

od a

fact

or?

Kat

rin L

udyn

ia, J

essi

ca K

empe

r, Jo

an

Jam

es, R

ian

Jone

s &

Jea

n-Pa

ul R

oux

19:0

0–20

:00

3a: B

irds

and

clim

ate

chan

ge

Phoe

be B

arna

rd, R

ob S

imm

ons

and

Res

Altw

egg

3b: A

FRIN

G: c

urre

nt a

sses

smen

t an

d th

e w

ay fo

rwar

d

Dou

g Ha

rebo

ttle

3c: E

thno

-orn

ithol

ogy

in A

frica

Rob

ert G

osfo

rd

3d: R

apto

rs o

f Afri

ca

A s

ocia

l dis

cuss

ion

host

ed b

y th

e B

irds

of P

rey

Wor

king

Gro

up o

f the

En

dang

ered

Wild

life

Trus

t

3e: T

he S

hoeb

ill: d

evel

opm

ent o

f a

cons

erva

tion

actio

n pl

an

Tim

Dod

man

& J

uliu

s A

rinat

we

08:1

5A

nnou

ncem

ents

08:3

0

08:4

5

09:3

0–10

:15

10:

15–1

2:20

Peng

uin

Hal

lR

ockj

umpe

r Hal

lSu

nbird

Hal

lB

okm

akie

rie H

all

Har

rier H

all

4a: S

eabi

rd c

onse

rvat

ion

in A

fric

a4b

: Bird

ring

ing

stud

ies

in A

fric

a4c

: Wat

erbi

rds

and

wet

land

co

nser

vatio

n in

Afr

ica

(1)

4d: B

ird c

omm

uniti

es in

an

thro

poge

nica

lly tr

ansf

orm

ed

Afr

ican

land

scap

es4e

: Bird

–Ind

ustr

y co

nflic

ts (2

)

10:1

5–10

:40

Qua

ntita

tive

appr

oach

to th

e co

nser

vatio

n of

a tr

opic

al s

eabi

rd p

opul

atio

n in

the

wes

tern

Indi

an O

cean

Dav

id M

ontic

elli

Ove

rvie

w o

f bird

ring

ing

in T

anza

nia

Neil

Bak

er &

Eliz

abet

h M

. Bak

erM

adag

asca

r’s w

ildfo

wl (

Ana

tidae

) in

the

new

mill

enni

umFe

lix R

azaf

indr

ajao

& H

ywel

Gly

n Yo

ung

Avi

an d

ynam

ics

of th

e ur

ban

ripar

ian

habi

tats

of P

otch

efst

room

, Sou

th A

frica

Rind

ert W

yma

& H

enk

Bou

wm

an

Suc

cess

ful u

se o

f H

alia

eetu

s ea

gles

in

mon

itorin

g w

ater

qua

lity

in s

ix c

ount

ries

Will

iam

W. B

ower

man

, Jam

es G

. Si

kars

kie,

Dav

id A

. Bes

t, B

jorn

He

land

er, T

eryl

G. G

rubb

, Vla

dim

ir B

. M

aste

rov,

Sim

on R

. Hol

lam

by, M

ark

D.

Ande

rson

10:4

0–11

:05

Reg

iona

l stu

dy o

f sta

ble

isot

ope

sign

atur

es in

mar

ine

bird

s in

the

wes

tern

In

dian

Oce

an: b

ioge

ogra

phic

and

ec

olog

ical

inte

rpre

tatio

nsSé

bast

ien

Jaqu

emet

, Ter

esa

Cat

ry, Y

ves

Che

rel,

Mat

thie

u Le

Cor

re, C

hris

toph

er

D. M

cQua

id, J

aim

e Ra

mos

and

Hen

ri W

eim

ersk

irch

The

ongo

ing

role

of b

ird ri

ngin

g in

sci

ence

–

a ca

se s

tudy

of D

arvi

ll B

ird S

anct

uary

Mar

k B

row

n &

H. D

iete

r Osc

hadl

eus

Eco

logi

e et

com

porte

men

t diu

rne

des

Ana

tidés

dan

s le

Lac

Had

j Tah

ar,

Gue

rbes

-San

hadj

a, N

ord-

Est

alg

érie

nSo

phia

Met

alla

oui,

Abde

lgha

ni

Mer

zoug

, Sad

ek A

tous

si &

Mou

ssa

Houh

amdi

Bre

edin

g su

cces

s an

d ju

veni

le s

urvi

val o

f ur

ban

Had

eda

Ibis

(Bos

trych

ia h

aged

ash)

Res

Altw

egg

& D

oug

Hare

bottl

e

Cha

lleng

es a

nd o

ppor

tuni

ties

for b

ird

haza

rd m

itiga

tion

stra

tegi

es in

Afri

ca:

airp

ort b

ird h

azar

d co

ntro

l cap

acity

bu

ildin

g pr

ogra

mm

es in

Ken

yaG

eorg

e Am

utet

e, A

lfred

O. O

win

o &

Al

bert

Fro

nem

an

Con

curr

ent s

ympo

sia

4: P

lena

ry:

Seab

irds

in A

fric

a: a

con

serv

atio

n ov

ervi

ew (P

rof.

Pete

r Rya

n, S

outh

Afr

ica)

- Pe

ngui

n H

all

Invi

ted

addr

ess

(Mr A

.P. L

even

tis, F

ound

er: A

.P. L

even

tis O

rnith

olog

ical

Res

earc

h In

stitu

te, N

iger

ia)

Tues

day

9 Se

ptem

ber

Cof

fee

brea

k an

d po

ster

ses

sion

(odd

num

bers

)

Cap

e B

ird C

lub

60th

ann

iver

sary

lect

ure:

The

Art

of B

ird P

hoto

grap

hy (P

eter

Ste

yn) -

a p

hoto

grap

hic

show

case

of b

irds

of th

e W

este

rn C

ape

- Pe

ngui

n H

all

20:1

5–22

:30

3: C

oncu

rren

t Rou

nd-T

able

Dis

cuss

ions

Page 9

11:0

5–11

:30

Clo

se v

icin

ity o

f for

agin

g ar

eas

and

bree

ding

site

s m

ay e

xpla

in p

ositi

ve

popu

latio

n tre

nds

of e

ndan

gere

d B

ank

Cor

mor

ants

at M

ercu

ry Is

land

, Nam

ibia

Kat

rin L

udyn

ia, R

ian

Jone

s, J

oan

Jam

es, K

athl

een

Pear

d, J

ean-

Paul

Rou

x &

Les

G. U

nder

hill

Res

ults

of t

he lo

ng-te

rm b

ird ri

ngin

g pr

ogra

mm

e in

the

Kak

ameg

a Fo

rest

, Is

eche

no F

ores

t Sta

tion,

wes

tern

Ken

ya,

1978

-200

8Ha

ns O

elke

& T

itus

Imbo

ma

Eco

-éth

olog

ie d

es S

arce

lles

mar

brée

s M

arm

aron

etta

ang

ustir

ostri

s da

ns le

s zo

nes

hum

ides

de

la ré

gion

d’O

um E

l-B

ouag

hiM

oham

ed-C

hérif

Maa

zi, S

ihem

Sed

dik

&

Mou

ssa

Houh

amdi

Avi

an d

iver

sity

in th

ree

adja

cent

coa

stal

fo

rest

frag

men

ts, M

omba

sa-K

enya

Sim

on N

. Mus

ila, M

wan

gi G

ithiru

&

Shya

m M

anoh

ar

Bal

ls, f

lash

ers,

flap

pers

and

coi

ls: i

n se

arch

of a

n ef

fect

ive

mea

ns to

miti

gate

av

ian

colli

sion

s w

ith o

verh

ead

lines

Andr

ew R

. Jen

kins

, Jon

J. S

mal

lie &

M

egan

Dia

mon

d

11:3

0–11

:55

Usi

ng G

PS

-trac

king

to d

esig

n M

arin

e P

rote

cted

Are

as fo

r end

emic

sea

bird

s in

th

e B

engu

ela

upw

ellin

g sy

stem

Lorie

n Pi

cheg

ru, P

eter

Rya

n, O

livie

r G

imen

ez, S

aman

tha

Pete

rsen

, Sue

Le

wis

, Jan

van

der

Wes

thui

zen,

Car

l van

de

r Lin

gen,

Cél

ine

Le B

ohec

& D

avid

G

rém

illet

Wei

ghts

& m

igra

tion

timin

g in

wad

ers

at

Mid

a C

reek

, Ken

yaC

olin

Jac

kson

& D

avid

Pea

rson

The

Cas

pian

Ter

n on

the

Hig

hvel

d of

S

outh

Afri

caB

rian

D. C

olah

an

An

inve

stig

atio

n to

det

erm

ine

the

criti

cal

habi

tat r

equi

rem

ents

of t

he b

reed

ing

Blu

e S

wal

low

Hiru

ndo

atro

caer

ulea

(Sun

deva

ll)

Jam

es W

akel

in

Miti

gatio

n an

d co

mpl

ianc

e in

long

line

and

traw

l fis

herie

s in

Sou

th A

frica

n w

ater

sB

arry

Wat

kins

, Mei

dad

Gor

en &

B

ronw

yn O

’Con

nell

11:5

5–12

:20

Sea

bird

mor

talit

ies

and

miti

gatio

n in

Sou

th

Afri

can

fishe

ries

Mei

dad

Gor

en, B

arry

Wat

kins

&

Bro

nwyn

O’C

onne

ll

Ann

ual a

dult

surv

ival

: hig

her i

n th

e tro

pics

an

d in

vers

ely

corre

late

d w

ith in

vest

men

t in

repr

oduc

tion

Penn

Llo

yd

Spa

tial a

nd te

mpo

ral p

artit

ioni

ng o

f co

loni

al h

eron

s in

Num

idia

, nor

thea

st

Alg

eria

Farr

ah S

amra

oui,

Abde

nnou

r B

ouch

eker

, Ria

d Ne

djah

, Rac

hid

Men

ai

& B

. Sam

raou

i

Fuel

-woo

d co

llect

ion

and

refo

rest

atio

n on

th

e Jo

s P

late

au: a

con

cern

for b

irds

Adam

s A.

Cha

skda

, Geo

rgin

a S.

M

wan

sat,

Long

tong

G. T

ursh

ak &

Ak

was

hiki

Om

buga

du

Impa

ct o

f sur

face

min

ing

oper

atio

ns o

n av

ifaun

a sp

ecie

s co

mpo

sitio

n an

d di

vers

ityEr

asm

us. H

. Ow

usu

& A

ugus

tus

Asam

oah

12:3

0–14

:00

14:0

0–14

:45

14:4

5 -1

5:30

Peng

uin

Hal

lR

ockj

umpe

r Hal

lSu

nbird

Hal

lB

okm

akie

rie H

all

Har

rier H

all

5a: C

onse

rvat

ion

of A

fric

an ra

ptor

s (1

)5b

: Bird

s an

d A

fric

an a

gric

ultu

re (2

)5c

: Evo

lutio

nary

pro

cess

ess

on

Indi

an O

cean

and

Atla

ntic

Oce

an

isla

nds

bird

s

5d: T

rade

in b

irds

and

its im

pact

on

wild

bird

pop

ulat

ions

in A

fric

a

5e: E

thno

-orn

ithol

ogy

in A

fric

a –

bird

kn

owle

dge,

cul

ture

and

co

nser

vatio

n (2

)

15:3

0–15

:55

Rap

tor n

umbe

rs in

Uga

nda

appe

ar n

ot to

be

dec

linin

gD

erek

Pom

eroy

, Her

bert

Tus

habe

&

Mun

ir Vi

rani

Bal

anci

ng th

e bi

rd c

onse

rvat

ion

and

econ

omic

s eq

uatio

n in

the

priv

atel

y ow

ned

Kin

ango

p gr

assl

ands

Paul

K. N

dang

’ang

’a &

Muc

hane

Muc

hai

Ada

ptiv

e ra

diat

ion

in is

land

finc

hes:

is

allo

patry

nec

essa

ry?

Pete

r G. R

yan,

Pau

lette

Blo

omer

, Tyr

on

Gra

nt, C

olee

n L.

Mol

oney

& W

ayne

D

elpo

rt

Trad

e in

wild

spe

cies

in A

frica

: sta

tus,

im

pact

s an

d w

ay fo

rwar

dHa

zell.

S. T

hom

pson

, G

eorg

e W

. Es

hiam

wat

a, J

uliu

s Ar

inai

twe

& P

aul K

. Nd

ang'

ang'

a

Pitf

alls

in e

thno

-orn

ithol

ogic

al re

sear

chFl

eur N

g'w

eno

15:5

5–16

:20

Est

imat

ing

Less

er K

estre

l (Fa

lco

naum

anni

) an

d A

mur

Fal

con

(Fal

co a

mur

ensi

s)

popu

latio

n si

ze o

verw

inte

ring

in S

outh

A

frica

Anth

ony

J. v

an Z

yl &

Gra

nt B

enn

Bio

dive

rsity

and

agr

icul

ture

in U

gand

a:

the

effe

cts

of p

olic

y ch

ange

on

the

farm

land

bird

ass

embl

age

Phili

p W

. Atk

inso

n, S

imon

Bol

wig

, Ac

hille

s B

yaru

hang

a R

aym

ond

Kat

abak

a, T

heod

ore

Mun

yuli,

Mau

rice

Mut

abez

i, et

al.

Bio

geog

raph

y an

d ev

olut

iona

ry

rela

tions

hips

am

ong

Indi

an O

cean

dr

ongo

s (P

asse

rifor

mes

: Dic

rurid

ae)

Eric

Pas

quet

, Jea

n-M

arc

Pons

, Jér

ôme

Fuch

s, C

orin

ne C

ruau

d &

Vin

cent

B

reta

gnol

le

Afri

can

Cra

ne T

rade

Pro

ject

: A

pr

elim

inar

y as

sess

men

t of t

he tr

ade

in

Afri

can

cran

esK

erry

n M

orris

on, S

imon

Mill

edge

, Ji

mm

y M

uhee

bwa,

Zip

pora

h M

usyi

mi,

Sam

son

Phak

athi

, Ach

illes

Bya

ruha

nga,

C

ecili

a G

ichu

ki &

Nat

han

Gic

huki

Eth

no-o

rnith

olog

y: a

key

to th

e cu

ltura

l an

d so

cio-

econ

omic

dev

elop

men

t and

bi

rd c

onse

rvat

ion

of th

e N

atta

peo

ple

of

the

Ser

enge

tiJo

hn M

. Wam

bura

, Om

ary

A.

Cha

mbe

gga,

and

Mok

iti T

.C. T

arim

o

16:2

0–16

:45

Bre

edin

g bi

olog

y, d

iet a

nd h

ome

rang

es o

f th

e M

adag

asca

r (To

roto

roka

) Sco

ps O

wl i

n th

e Ts

imem

bo F

ores

t, w

este

rn

Mad

agas

car

Julio

t C. R

amam

onjis

oa

The

influ

ence

of a

gric

ultu

re o

n th

e di

et

and

fora

ging

eco

logy

of M

acki

nder

’s

Eag

le-o

wl

Bub

o ca

pens

is m

acki

nder

i in

cent

ral K

enya

Dar

cy L

. Oga

da &

Pau

l Mur

iithi

Bird

spe

ciat

ion

in th

e G

ulf o

f Gui

nea

Isla

nds

syst

emM

artim

Mel

o &

Pet

er J

ones

Mon

itorin

g ex

ploi

tatio

n an

d m

arke

ting

of

wat

erbi

rds

in th

e In

ner N

iger

Del

ta, M

ali

Bak

ary

Kon

e &

Mor

i Dia

llo (M

ouss

a Sé

ga D

iop)

Is in

dige

nous

con

serv

atio

n a

scie

nce?

- an

exa

min

atio

n of

the

bird

nam

ing

syst

em

in L

uhyi

a of

the

Wes

tern

Pro

vinc

e, K

enya

Geo

rge

Amut

ete

Lunc

h

5: P

lena

ry:

Afr

ica'

s ra

ptor

s: th

reat

s an

d co

nser

vatio

n ac

tions

(Dr M

unir

Vira

ni, K

enya

) - P

engu

in H

all

Cof

fee

brea

k an

d po

ster

ses

sion

(eve

n nu

mbe

rs)

15:

30–1

7:35

Con

curr

ent s

ympo

sia

Page 10

16:4

5–17

:10

Eco

logy

and

con

serv

atio

n of

Mon

tagu

’s

Har

riers

Circ

us p

ygar

gus

in th

e S

ahel

Chr

istia

ne T

rierw

eile

r , Ru

di H

. Dre

nt, J

an

Kom

deur

, Kla

us-M

icha

el E

xo, F

ranz

B

airle

in &

Ben

J. K

oks

Effe

ct o

f fire

on

the

fora

ging

stra

tegi

es o

f bi

rds

in fa

rmla

nds

Adem

ola

A. A

jagb

e

Evo

lutio

n an

d ex

tinct

ion

of b

irds

on th

e sm

alle

r wes

tern

Indi

an O

cean

isla

nds

Robe

rt P

rys-

Jone

s &

Ben

War

ren

The

impa

ct o

f tra

ditio

nal u

se o

n vu

lture

s in

Sou

th A

frica

Myl

es M

ande

r, Ni

cci D

iede

richs

, Lun

gile

Nt

uli,

Khu

lile

Mav

undl

a, V

ivia

n W

illia

ms

& S

teve

n M

cKea

n

Kor

i Bus

tard

con

serv

atio

n in

cen

tral a

nd

wes

tern

Bot

swan

a: h

ow s

erio

us is

the

thre

at o

f poa

chin

g?K

abel

o Se

nyat

so

17:1

0–17

:35

Bre

edin

g bi

olog

y an

d di

et o

f Mad

agas

car

Cuc

koo

Haw

k A

vice

da m

adag

asca

riens

is

in A

mba

tova

ky S

peci

al R

eser

ve,

Mad

agas

car

Don

atie

n R.

Ran

dria

njaf

inia

sa

Diff

eren

t far

mla

nd h

abita

ts h

ave

vary

ing

effe

cts

on th

e de

nsiti

es o

f tw

o co

mm

on

bird

spe

cies

on

the

Jos

Pla

teau

, Nig

eria

Mar

k Hu

lme

and

Will

Cre

ssw

ell

Trac

ing

the

colo

nisa

tion

hist

ory

of th

e In

dian

Oce

an S

cops

-ow

ls (S

trigi

form

es:

Otu

s) w

ith fu

rther

insi

ght i

nto

the

spat

io-

tem

pora

l orig

in o

f the

Mal

agas

y av

ifaun

aJé

rôm

e Fu

chs,

Jea

n-M

arc

Pons

, Ste

ven

M. G

oodm

an, V

ince

nt B

reta

gnol

le,

Mar

tim M

elo,

Rau

ri C

.K. B

owie

, et a

l.

An

asse

ssm

ent o

f the

bio

logi

cal i

mpa

ct o

f bi

rd h

untin

g in

Lak

e C

hilw

a W

illia

m O

. Mgo

ola

Indi

geno

us k

now

ledg

e of

bird

s as

in

dica

tors

of c

hang

es in

sea

sona

l and

gl

obal

wea

ther

pat

tern

sM

ercy

Mui

ruiri

& P

atric

k M

aund

u

20:0

0–22

:30

6a: I

mpl

emen

tatio

n of

the

Less

er

Flam

ingo

Act

ion

Pla

n

Pete

r Cra

nsw

ick,

Mar

k A

nder

son

&

Arn

aud

Béc

het

6b: S

tatu

s re

view

for s

ub-S

ahar

an

Afri

can

rapt

ors:

A R

egio

nal R

ed

List

Geo

ffrey

M. W

ambu

gu, M

wan

gi

Gith

iru, M

unir

Vira

ni a

nd K

ariu

ki P

. Nd

ang'

anga

6c: C

oord

inat

ed W

ater

bird

Cou

nts

(CW

AC

): A

re w

e st

ill h

eadi

ng in

th

e rig

ht d

irect

ion?

Mar

ius

Whe

eler

6d: S

eabi

rd c

onse

rvat

ion

(plu

s m

ini-s

ympo

sium

*)

Ant

on W

olfa

ardt

and

Rob

Cra

wfo

rd

6e: S

ettin

g up

a W

est A

frica

n bi

rd

mig

ratio

n ne

twor

k to

faci

litat

e fie

ld

rese

arch

into

dec

linin

g m

igra

nts

Will

Cre

ssw

ell &

Vol

ker S

alew

ski

06:3

0–17

:00

17:0

0–18

:30

17:3

0

19:0

0

6: C

oncu

rren

t Rou

nd-T

able

Dis

cuss

ions

Wed

nesd

ay 1

0 Se

ptem

ber

Mid

-con

gres

s ex

curs

ions

Bar

bequ

e an

d so

cial

* 1. T

he b

reed

ing

succ

ess

of th

e D

amar

a Te

rn (S

tern

a ba

laen

arum

) in

the

rest

ricte

d di

amon

d m

inin

g ar

ea o

f sou

ther

n N

amib

ia (J

ustin

e B

raby

, Jea

n-Pa

ul R

oux

and

Les

G. U

nder

hill)

2. S

potti

ng th

e di

ffere

nce:

tow

ards

aut

onom

ous

popu

latio

n m

onito

ring

of A

frica

n P

engu

ins,

Sph

enis

cus

dem

ersu

s (R

icha

rd B

. She

rley,

Tilo

Bur

ghar

dt, A

ntje

Ste

infu

rth,

Pet

er J

. Bar

ham

, Nei

ll C

ampb

ell &

Inne

s C

. Cut

hill)

3. S

eabi

rd c

onse

rvat

ion

on D

yer I

slan

d; th

e th

reat

s th

ey fa

ce a

nd c

urre

nt re

sear

ch to

add

ress

them

(La

uren

Wal

ler a

nd L

es G

. Und

erhi

ll)

4. L

ong-

term

rest

orat

ion

succ

ess

of A

frica

n P

engu

ins

de-o

iled

follo

win

g th

e A

pollo

Sea

oil

spill

(A

nton

C W

olfa

ardt

, Les

G. U

nder

hill,

Ant

hony

J. W

illia

ms)

5.

Pop

ulat

ion

chan

ge, a

ge s

truct

ure

and

mov

emen

ts o

f the

Kel

p G

ull o

n th

e In

dian

Oce

an c

oast

of S

outh

Afri

ca (

Phili

p A

. Whi

tting

ton)

7: In

tere

st g

roup

mee

ting

Con

serv

atio

n st

atus

of t

he T

aita

Fal

con:

wha

t do

we

know

, wha

t don

’t w

e kn

ow, a

nd w

hat d

o w

e ne

ed to

kno

w?

And

rew

Jen

kins

, And

ré B

otha

& M

unir

Vira

ni

PAO

C C

omm

ittee

mee

ting

(Ven

ue to

be

anno

unce

d; P

AO

CC

mem

bers

onl

y)

Page 11

08:3

0A

nnou

ncem

ents

08:4

5

09:3

0–10

:15

Peng

uin

Hal

lR

ockj

umpe

r Hal

lSu

nbird

Hal

lB

okm

akie

rie H

all

Har

rier H

all

8a: I

ntra

-Afr

ica

mig

ratio

n8b

: Bre

edin

g st

rate

gies

in A

fric

an

bird

s8c

: The

impo

rtan

ce o

f IB

As

and

KB

As

in in

tern

atio

nal d

evel

opm

ent

8d: C

onse

rvat

ion

of A

fric

an R

apto

rs

(2)

8e: C

ause

s an

d co

nser

vatio

n co

nseq

uenc

es o

f rar

ity

10:1

5–10

:40

Pat

tern

s of

intra

-Afri

can

mig

ratio

n in

re

latio

n to

repr

oduc

tion

and

mou

ltPe

ter J

. Jon

es

The

battl

e of

the

fem

ales

: mat

e ch

oice

in

coop

erat

ivel

y br

eedi

ng b

irds

Aman

da R

idle

y

IBA

s, K

BA

s, C

onse

rvat

ion

Pol

icy

and

the

2010

Bio

dive

rsity

Tar

get

Leon

Ben

nun,

Lin

con

Fish

pool

, M. N

. Fo

ster

, Fra

nk A

. Haw

kins

, D. H

. Kno

x

Vul

ture

s in

Tan

zani

a: c

urre

nt s

tatu

s,

thre

ats

and

cons

erva

tion

initi

ativ

esNe

il B

aker

Con

serv

atio

n im

plic

atio

ns o

f diff

erin

g lif

e-hi

stor

y tra

its in

two

Afro

tropi

cal s

hore

bird

sPh

il A.

R. H

ocke

y

10:4

0–11

:05

Mov

emen

ts o

f Pal

earc

tic a

nd A

frotro

pica

l bi

rd s

peci

es d

urin

g th

e dr

y se

ason

(N

ovem

ber–

Febr

uary

) with

in N

iger

iaW

ill C

ress

wel

l, M

. Boy

d &

Mat

thew

St

even

s

Hos

t-spe

cific

ada

ptat

ion

in A

frica

n br

ood

para

site

sC

laire

Spo

ttisw

oode

& J

ohn

F.R.

C

oleb

rook

-Rob

jent

Con

serv

atio

n an

d de

velo

pmen

t in

Afri

ca:

the

cont

ribut

ion

of IB

As

and

KB

As

to

sust

aina

ble

hum

an d

evel

opm

ent

Haze

ll S.

Thom

pson

, Jan

e W

.N.

Gai

thum

a &

Jul

ius

Arin

aitw

e

Cur

rent

sta

tus

of th

e vu

lture

pop

ulat

ions

w

ithin

Yan

kari

Gam

e R

eser

ve, N

iger

iaTa

latu

Ten

de &

Ulf

Otto

sson

From

abu

ndan

t to

extin

ct in

the

blin

k of

an

eye:

floa

ters

as

an e

arly

war

ning

of

popu

latio

n co

llaps

e in

terri

toria

l spe

cies

, us

ing

the

Ald

abra

Rai

lRo

ss W

anle

ss &

Phi

l A.R

. Hoc

key

11:0

5–11

:30

The

intra

-Afri

can

mig

ratio

n st

rate

gy o

f the

G

arde

n W

arbl

erUl

f Otto

sson

, Yah

kat B

arsh

ep, A

nder

s He

lset

h, M

ark

F Hu

lme,

Sol

adoy

e Iw

ajom

o, M

atth

ew S

teve

ns

Bre

edin

g sy

stem

s of

sho

rebi

rds:

is th

ere

a so

uth–

north

cha

sm?

Tam

as S

zeke

ly &

Dan

iel S

ol

KB

As/

IBA

s in

a c

hang

ing

clim

ate:

re

duct

ion

in e

mis

sion

s fro

m d

efor

esta

tion

and

degr

adat

ion

oppo

rtuni

ties

for

cons

ervi

ng K

BA

s in

Mad

agas

car

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ami,

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u, J

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role

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