UvA-BiTS Symposium

The UvA-BiTS Symposium will given on 9 December 2013 at Turingzaal, CWI, Science Park 125, Amsterdam.

Program

8:30 -   9:15 Registration & Coffee
9:15 – 11:00 Welcome & Session 1
Adriaan Dokter, Oystercatchers moving with the tides: site-fidelity in a dynamic environment
Kozue Shiomi, Foraging behavior of Caspian terns breeding in Sweden as tracked by GPS loggers
Wimke Fokkema, Brent geese in a meta-ecosystem: spatial movements & the relations with ecological factors
Nathan Senner, Black-tailed Godwit habitat use in agricultural landscapes during the pre-migratory period: What really matters?
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:45 Session 2
Kees Camphuysen, Sexually distinct foraging strategies and individual specialization of Lesser Black-backed gulls
Tom Evans: Central-place foraging flights of Lesser Black-backed Gull under varying meteorological conditions
Viola Ross-Smith, Tracking Lesser Black-backed gulls through the year reveals annual, seasonal, and individual variation in seabird-wind farm interactions
12:45 – 13:45 Lunch
13:45 – 15:00 Session 3
Raymond Klaassen, Individual variation in habitat use and home range size of Dutch Montagu’s Harriers
Theoni Photopoulou, Space use, activity patterns and hunting behaviour of Verreaux’s eagle in the Western Cape, South Africa
Emiel van Loon, Getting to grips with the very first phase of analyzing animal trajectory data
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 16:45 Session 4
Willem Bouten, Evolution of space use of translocated juvenile Red kites
Laura Gangoso, Wind-dependent foraging flights of Eleonora’s falcons on Alegranza
Wouter Vansteelant, From thermal to flyway: understanding soaring migration performance at multiple scales

The full list of abstracts can be found here.