Following up on the successful MLSG symposia at EOU conferences since 2015, we are ready for another dose of inspiring community-building preceding EOU2022 in Giessen, Germany, on March 12th -13th. The aim of the MLSG is to promote collaborative research to help advance flyway-scale understanding of and conservation actions for migrant landbirds. We believe knowledge-sharing is essential to achieve this. Thus, during our symposium we will actively engage all attendants to partake in a dynamic program of presentations, workshops, and group discussions. We will focus on data sharing and collaboration, new tracking technologies and priorities for migrant landbird research and conservation.
Join us and register here:
https://conference.eounion.org/2022/registration/
Saturday – March 12th
[10:00 – 12:00 MLSG ExCo Meeting]
12:45 – 13:00 Arrival and welcome by MLSG
13:00 – 14:45 Plenary session I: Data sharing and collaboration
Samuel Ivande: Nigerian Bird Atlas Project (15+5)
Verena Keller: European Breeding Bird Atlas 2 (15+5)
Stephen Baillie: EURING bird migration atlas (15+5)
Sarah Davidson/Wolfgang Fiedler: MoveBank (15+5)
Antica Culina: SPI-birds data hub (15+5)
14:45 – 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 – 16:15 Speed talks by symposium participants 1
16:15 – 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 – 18:00 Speed talks by symposium participants 2
18:00 – 20:00 Drinks
Sunday – March 13th
09:00 – 09:40 Plenary session II: Conservation
Juliet Vickery: Priorities for migrant landbird conservation (30+5)
09:40 – 09:50 Presentation of workshops / working group meetings
10:00 – 13:00 Parallel sessions (with coffee break)
- Workshop 1 – Tracking technologies (Martins Briedis)
New developments in the analysis of tracking data
Q&A Session: Troubleshooting tracking studies
- Workshop 2 – Priorities for migrant landbird research and conservation (Alain Jacot/Juliet Vickery)
African-Eurasian Migratory Landbirds Action Plan Update
- Workshop 3 – Range-wide data sharing (Malcolm Burgess/all plenary speakers of session I)
How do we get data from less represented areas?
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 14:30 Synopsis from each of the parallel workshop sessions back to the whole conference
14:30 – 15:00 MLSG General meeting
15:00 – 16:00 Plenary session II: New methods in migrant landbird research
Steffen Hahn: Metabolic rates of migrants throughout the annual cycle (25+5)
Yvonne Verkuil: An avenue to quantifying arthropod diets in songbirds: application of faecal DNA metabarcoding to retrieve the relative abundances of arthropod taxa (25+5)
16:00 – 16:05 Group picture
16:05 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00 Species Working Group meetings (e.g. Whinchats, Turtle Doves)
18:00 – 18:30 Synopsis from each of the group meetings back to the whole conference
18:25 – 18:30 Closing
18:30 – 20:00 Drinks
Monday – March 14th
08:00 – 10:00 MLSG birdwatching excursion
Symposium convener: Migrant Landbird Study Group
Contact: Wieland Heim, Turku University, Finland, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.