Wednesday, August 24, 2005

AOU meeting schedule/Ivory-billed Woodpecker presentations.

Here are a couple of IBWO-related presentations scheduled for the AOU meeting in Santa Barbara. Hey, I *know* people at the AOU meeting in Santa Barbara are checking out this blog, come on, send me your comments after you see (hear?) the Cornell presentations--signed or anonymous, I'll post any comments unedited as I receive them.

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 24, 2005

10:15 Video evidence and sightings of Ivory-billed Woodpecker in eastern Arkansas in 2004 -2005.

KENNETH V. ROSENBERG, JOHN W. FITZPATRICK, MARTJAN LAMMERTINK
and RONALD W. ROHRBAUGH, Lab. Ornithol., Cornell Univ., Ithaca NY.

10:30 Status of recent acoustic search for Ivory-billed Woodpecker in the U.S.

R. A. CHARIF, K. A. CORTOPASSI, K. M. FRISTRUP, H. K. FIGUEROA, K. V. ROSENBERG and J. W . FITZPATRICK, Lab. Ornithol., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY.

10:45 When standard techniques fall short – novel and adapted survey methods for finding the
Ivory-billed Woodpecker and other ultra rare species.

R. W . ROHRBAUGH, M. LAMMERTINK, E. C. H. SWARTHOUT, P. H. WREGE, K. V. ROSENBERG, S. BARKER SWARTHOUT and J. W . FITZPATRICK, Lab. Ornithol., Cornell, Univ., Ithaca, NY.

11:00 What do we know about the effects of current management practices in the Mississippi
Alluvial Valley on Ivory-billed Woodpeckers?

ROBERT J. COOPER, Warnell School For. Res., Univ. Georgia, Athens, GA.

Thursday, 25 August

Plenary 2

20:00 Rediscovery of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker and its conservation
implications.

JOHN W. FITZPATRICK, Lab. Ornithol., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY.

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