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"Partners
Across Borders"
Celebrating U.S. and Canadian Banding Research |
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Braddock Bay Bird Observatory hosted the 2005 annual meeting of the Eastern Bird Banding Association held April 15-17 at the Airport Holiday Inn in Rochester, NY. More than 100 banders and ornithologists were in attendance.
Saw-whet Owl banding was the focus of the Friday evening program presented by well-known banders David Brewer and Bruce Fortman. The workshop featured a “hands-on” session held at BBBO’s Kaiser-Manitou Beach banding station with owl banders sharing techniques and discussing criteria for ageing and sexing owls. Two Saw-whet Owls were banded that evening, one of which was a “foreign” recapture—a bird previously banded in Pennsylvania.
Saturday workshops focused on the Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship program and techniques for ageing and sexing passerines.
Seven scientific papers were presented at the Saturday paper session. Local presenters included Tricia Jones of Nazareth College
(Analysis of frugivory of migrating birds at the Braddock Bay Bird
Observatory); Mark Deutschlander of BBBO and Hobart and William Smith Colleges
(Behavioral studies reveal information about navigation mechanisms in migratory
birds); and Brendan McCabe of SUNY Brockport (Lipid stores in plumage morphs and sexes of White-throated Sparrows during
migration).
A number of the 15 posters presented had ties to BBBO. Posters with local origins were presented by Susan B. Smith, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI and Christopher J. Norment of SUNY Brockport
(Nocturnal activity of migratory songbirds during spring stopover at Braddock Bay, Lake
Ontario); Kristina Hannam and Kana Teratani of SUNY Geneseo (House Wren begging calls: are individuals or broods distinct?); and two posters by David Bonter and Elizabeth W. Brooks of BBBO
(Are elevated mist nets required to adequately sample the avian community at Braddock
Bay?, and Birds on the move: Encounters of birds banded at Braddock
Bay).
At the EBBA annual business meeting, BBBO’s Betsy Brooks was elected President for the coming year.
The banquet speaker was David Bonter, of Cornell’s Laboratory of Ornithology and BBBO, whose presentation was “Bird Studies Across Borders: Thinking Big in Ornithology”.
Field trips included tours of Braddock Bay Raptor Research’s “owl woods,” raptor banding station, and hawk count platform. Tours also visited BBBO’s Kaiser-Manitou Beach banding station and local birding hotspots in the Rochester area.
Thanks to all the local people who volunteered to make the meeting a success, including Linda Boutwell, Mark Deutschlander, Kelly Dockery, Jon Dombrowski, Jeff Dodge, Virginia Duffy, Cricket Fegan, Kevin Griffith, Marilyn Guenther, Donna Hilborn, Erin Karnatz, Tom Lathrop, Cindy Marino, Chita and Bob McKinney, Sara Morris, Jeanne Skelly, Lois Smith, and Ruth Stork.
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