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8:45 |
Opening welcome and announcements |
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Session 1 |
Plenary address and seabird biology |
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9:00-9:30 |
Plenary: James Briskie |
Will a Predator Free New Zealand open a Pandora’s box for introduced birds? |
| 2 |
9:30-9:45 |
Matt Rayner |
Seasonal movements and foraging activity of black-winged petrel from three New Zealand colonies |
| 3 |
9:45-10:00 |
Dan Burgin |
At sea captures of tākoketai/black petrels and other seabirds using a cast net |
| 4 |
10:00-10:15 |
Claudia Mischler |
Southern royal albatross – a brief snapshot |
| 5 |
10:15-10:30 |
James Russell |
Spatio-temporal variation in chick growth and breeding success in the grey-faced petrel |
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10:30-11:00 |
Morning tea |
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Session 2 |
Stressed birds |
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| 6 |
11:00-11:15 |
Victoria L. Smith |
Stressed out sootys: comparing interannual stress levels of sooty and flesh-footed shearwaters in Aotearoa |
| 7 |
11:15-11:30 |
Ariel-Micaiah Heswall |
Where are they landing? Mapping seabird fallout from artificial lighting in Auckland, New Zealand |
| 8 |
11:30-11:45 |
Maira Fessardi |
Stress physiology of grey-faced petrels: interannual measures of feather corticosterone as a conservation tool |
| 9 |
11:45-12:00 |
Vanessa Kennard |
Use of ptilochronology and feather stable isotopes to determine the causes of decline in the Australasian bittern/matuku in New Zealand |
| 10 |
12:00-12:15 |
Nick Ledgard |
TBA |
| 11 |
12:15-12:30 |
S. Lamb |
Presence of plastic pollution on seabird islands: identifying hotspots for flesh-footed shearwaters |
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12:30-1:30 |
Lunch |
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Session 3 |
Monitoring and conservation |
| 12 |
1:30-1:45 |
J.H. Fischer |
Structured decision-making to guide values-based conservation of the critically endangered Kuaka/Whenua Hou diving petrel |
| 13 |
1:45-2:00 |
Robin Toy |
Long-term forest bird monitoring by a community conservation group in Kahurangi National Park |
| 14 |
2:00-2:15 |
Christopher Bycroft |
Sixteen years of monthly bird monitoring at the western end of Lake Rotoiti, Rotorua, and implications of one-off surveys |
| 15 |
2:15-2:30 |
Chris Muller |
Population monitoring of hoiho in the subantarctic – challenges, knowledge gaps and recommendations for the future |
| 16 |
2:30-2:45 |
Frances A. Schmechel |
Are we succeeding with black-fronted tern management and how would we know? |
| 17 |
2:45-3:00 |
Graham Parker |
Are we there yet? Seabird bycatch in Aotearoa and beyond |
| 18 |
3:00-3:15 |
Laureline Rossignaud |
Trends in bird counts 1978-2020 in Craigieburn Forest with variable control of mammalian predators |
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3:15-3:30
3:30-4:00 |
Poster talks (see below) 1-2 minute talks by each poster presenter
Afternoon tea & Poster session |
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Richard N. Holdaway |
Moa as monitors of volcanogenic environment change |
| 2P |
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Rachel P. Hickcox |
Risks and refugia: assessing the spatial overlap between yellow-eyed penguin foraging distribution, commercial fisheries, and marine protected areas |
| 3P |
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Paul R. Fisher |
Describing the moult of the South Island fernbird: can birds be aged and sexed in the hand? |
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Christopher Dawson |
Native vs. introduced: does feeding of urban waterfowl by the public disproportionately favour one over the other? |
| 5P |
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Isabella H. Stainthorpe |
Increases in native bird diversity and abundance on the University of Canterbury campus over the past 30 years |
| 6P |
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Archie MacFarlane |
Long-term consequences of genetic rescue in two bottlenecked populations of the South Island robin |
| 7P |
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Nyil Khwaja |
Recruitment, survival and breeding success in a declining rifleman population |
| 8P |
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Emily Beasley |
Gull-human interactions in an urban population of herring gulls and lesser black-backed gulls |
| 9P |
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Lucy Howell |
Monitoring kororā/little blue penguin populations on Banks Peninsula using a portable MiniION sequencing device |
| 10P |
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Stephen Rowe |
The impacts of soil as a probiotic in altering the gut microbiome of the Ōkārito kiwi (Apteryx rowi) in hatcheries |
| 11P |
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Chris G. Muller |
Improving VHF tracking efficiency of wildlife using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) – A case study locating yellow-eyed penguin nests |
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Session 4 |
Data and bird banding |
| 19 |
4:00-4:15 |
Bruce McKinlay |
Old note books and what to do with them |
| 20 |
4:15-4:30 |
David S. Melville &
Scott Butcher |
Bird banding to support local government biodiversity programmes and monitoring outcomes: a study of the South Island fernbird in Nelson, New Zealand |
| 21 |
4:30-4:45 |
Dan Burgin |
New Zealand Bird Atlas year 3 update |
| 22 |
4:45-5:00 |
Michelle Bradshaw |
Banding through the ages |
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5:00-5:30 |
Bird banding gathering |
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5:00-5:30 |
eBird and NZ Bird Atlas workshop |
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5:00-7:00 |
Drinks – a bar will be available at the venue |
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7:00 |
Informal Dinner |
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