Rusty Blackbird Workshop Program
- The talks below can be downloaded as pdf files.
Day 1
8:00 Meet and Greet (Conference Room)
I. Trends
8:30 Long term historical and informal data sources (Russell Greenberg and Sam Droege)
8:40 Inferences about trends and population size from the BBS (Peter Blancher - via phone)
9:10 Forty-year trends in the Christmas Bird Count (Dan Niven and Russell Greenberg)
9:20 Inferences from migration banding data (Adrienne Leppold)
9:45 Population Cycles (Jean-Pierre Savard)
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
II. Current and Historical Status
10:30 Alaska (Steve Matsuoka)
10:45 Canada (Keith Hobson)
11:00 New England (Luke Powell)
11:15 Mississippi Valley (Paul Hamel)
11:30 International, National and State level management status (Dean Demarest)
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch (and poster presentation)
III. Ecology and Natural History
1:00 Breeding Season Habitat Associations (Steve Matsuoaka, Keith Hobson, Pam Sinclair, Luke Powelll)
1:20 Reproductive Success (David Shaw or Paul Meyer - via phone)
1:35 Winter habit use (Claudia Mettke-Hofmann and Jason Luscier)
2:05 Connectivity between breeding and wintering range (Keith Hobson et al.)
2:20-3:00 Coffee Break
IV. Habitat Changes
3:00 Threats to boreal wetlands, and boreal duck declines (Glenn Mack DU)
3:20 Bottomland forests (Ted Leininger)
V. Climate Change, Contaminants, Control
3:40 Climate Change effects on boreal wetlands (Robin Corcoran via phone)
3:55 Mercury Toxicity and Acid Rain (Dave Evers)
4:10 Blackbird control programs (Scott Barras USDA)
4:45 Contaminants diagnosed in blackbirds at NWHC (Chris Franson via phone)
4:55 Disease and mortality monitoring (Mark Jankowski - via phone)
VI. Atlasing and Survey Techniques
5:05 Wintering (Jason Luscier et al.)
5:20 Breeding (Keith Hobson, Pam Sinclair, Luke Powell)
5:50 End
6:30 Restaurant visit
Day 2
Whole group discussions
8:00 Changing management status and conservation prioritization (Dean Demarest and Steve Matsouka, chairs)
8:55 Improving monitoring (Pam Sinclair and Jason Luscier, chairs)
9:50-10:20 Coffee Break
10:20 Developing cross-seasonal demographic research (Paul Hamel, chair)
11:15 Testing Hypotheses for the decline (Claudia Mettke-Hofmann and Russ Greenberg, chairs)
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
Break Out Sessions
1:00 Break out organization - 2 rooms
1:15 -3:30 Break Out groups meet
3:30-4:30 Break Out Groups report back
4:30- Next Steps
