Program
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Monday, February 5, 2024
| 12:00 – 20:00 | Registration | |||
| 13:00 – 18:00 | Workshop: Bayesian Analysis of Banding Data,Tom Riecke et al. (Billiard Room) | |||
| 18:00 – 19:00 | Break before Reception | |||
| 19:00 – 22:00 | Welcoming Reception: (Grand Ballroom) | |||
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
| 6:30 – 8:00 | Breakfast: (Grand Ballroom) | |||
| 8:10 – 8:15 | Opening Remarks and Announcements: Bruce Dugger (Governor’s Ballroom) | |||
| Plenary 1: Afton Plenary Lecture (Governor’s Ballroom) | ||||
| 8:15 – 8:20 | Afton Plenary Introduction Bruce Dugger | |||
| 8:20 – 9:30 | Afton Plenary Lecture: Introductions by Mike Anderson and Al Afton, Speaker: John Eadie |
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| 9:30 – 10:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| P1.2: Student Plenary Session, Moderator: John Eadie (Governor’s Ballroom) | ||||
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Monitoring Waterfowl Brood Abundance, Movement, and Survival Using a Drone-Based VHF Radiotelemetry System Grant Rhodes*, K.M. Ringelman, H.C. Sabatier, B.S. Sedinger, and C.A. Nicolai | |||
| 10:20 – 10:40 | AI-Assisted Conservation: Developing Tools to Standardize In-The-Field Means to Distinguish Duck Species and Hybrids Sara Gonzalez* and P. Lavretsky | |||
| 10:40 – 11:00 | simRestore: A Decision-Making Tool for Adaptive Management of the Native Genetic Status of Wild Populations Flor Hernandez*, T. Janzen, and P. Lavretsky | |||
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Great Lakes Mallard Movements and Population Dynamics Benjamin Luukkonen*,S.R. Winterstein, D.B. Hayes, D.N. Fowler, P. Lavretsky, B.A. Avers, J.M. Coluccy, B.J. O’Neal, A.A. Shipley, J.M. Winiarski, and J.W. Simpson | |||
| 11:20 – 11:40 | Functional Connectivity of Waterfowl Sanctuaries for Wintering Mallards in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley Nicholas Masto*, A.C. Keever, A.G. Blake-Bradshaw, C.J. Highway, J.C. Feddersen, H.M. Hagy, and B.S. Cohen | |||
| 11:40 – 12:00 | Influence of Sanctuary Disturbance on Waterfowl Harvest Opportunity Abigail Blake-Bradshaw*, N.M. Masto, C.J. Highway, A.C. Keever, J.C. Feddersen, H.M. Hagy, and B.S. Cohen | |||
| 12:00 – 13:20 | Lunch Break: (Grand Ballroom) | |||
| A1.1: Movement Ecology (Renaissance Room) |
A1.2: Population Dynamics (Billiard Room) |
A1.3: Breeding Ecology (Library) |
A1.4: Wetland Management and Assessment (Card Room) |
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| 13:20 – 13:40 | Machine learned daily life history classification using low-frequency tracking data and automated modeling pipelines: application to North American waterfowl (C. Overton) | Characterizing the population dynamics of waterfowl breeding in the Intermountain West (C. Setash) | Estimating future densities and distributions of breeding duck pairs under a changing climate in the U.S. Prairie Pothole Region (A. Pearse) | Vegetation and Waterbird Response to a Drawdown on a Semi-permanent Wetland (K. Schroyer) |
| 13:40 – 14:00 | Movement Patterns and Risks From Anthropogenic Stressors for Scoters Wintering in the Salish Sea (M. Ross) | Explaining the environmental drivers and demographic mechanisms leading to the divergence of population trajectories for Canvasbacks and Redheads (D. Gibson) | Eastern Canada: Using Species Abundance Models to Prioritize Habitat for Conservation and Restoration (A.Cox) | Will semipermanent wetlands be the bottleneck for production in the future duck factory? (M. Anteau) |
| 14:00 – 14:20 | Movement ecology of mottled ducks in a novel environment: the South Texas Brush Country (J. VonBank) | A life-history spectrum of population responses to simultaneous change in climate and land use (F. Buderman) | Breeding Duck Pair Densities: Insights From the Prairie Pothole Region of Central Saskatchewan, Canada (H. Sabatier) | Preferred atmospheric circulations associated with favorable prescribed burns in the Gulf of Mexico, U.S.A. (A. Fournier) |
| 14:20 – 14:40 | Risk assessment for wildlife disease (avian influenza) using an animal movement approach (E. Matchett) | Recent Declines in Population Indices for Spectacled Eiders on Both Breeding Areas in Alaska (E. Osnas) | Conspecific brood parasitism in Red-breasted Mergansers: parasite behavior and host fitness costs (S. Craik) | Assessment of seasonal wetland availability to inform non-breeding waterfowl conservation on the Western Gulf Coast (J. Lancaster) |
| 14:40 – 15:00 | Customized Wildlife Reports: Streamlining GPS Telemetry Data for Enhanced Wildlife Management (A. Lorenz) | Drivers of annual recruitment in sea duck populations revealed using harvest surveys (J. Hewitt) | Factors affecting cause-specific egg mortality in a host-parasite-predator system (M. Johnson) | Revisiting the 2020 Vision of Wetland Habitats and Waterfowl: How Good Were the Predictions? (D. Olson) |
| 15:00 – 15:20 | Long-term population trends of wintering waterfowl in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley (B. Davis) | NOAA Firebird: Fire Effects in Gulf of Mexico Marshes on Mottled Ducks, Black and Yellow Rails (A. Fournier) | When Is the Table Set? Important Considerations for How We Assess Wetland Seed Abundance (D. Smith) | |
| 15:20 – 15:40 | Coffee Break, hosted by Columbia Sportsware | |||
| A1.1: Mental Health Support Workshop (Renaissance Room) |
A1.2: Population Dynamics (Billiard Room) |
A1.3: Breeding Ecology (Library) |
A1.4: Wetland Management and Assessment (Card Room) |
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| 15:40 – 16:00 | Presentation (Sara Kinder) | Using a photo survey to estimate annual recruitment in Atlantic Flyway sea duck populations (J. Hewitt) | Fire for Feathers- Assessing the Impacts of Fire on Breeding Mottled Ducks (P. Adams) | When is the table set? Important considerations for how we assess wetland seed abundance (D. Smith) |
| 16:00 – 16:20 | Panel Discussion | Seasonal abundance, sex ratio, and survival of the endangered Hawaiian Duck on north Kaua’I (C. Malachowski) | Boreal duck Reproductive Success: relationships with Breeding Pair Density, Spring Phenology and Predator-prey dynamics (K. Bas) | Waterfowl and Water Quality: How Comparing Wetland Restorations Can Help Build Up Wetland Multifunctionality (E. Van Boeckman) |
| 16:20 – 16:40 | Small Group Discussions | Pitfalls in Bayesian modeling of band-recovery data (C. Deane) | Nest Box Selection by Common Goldeneye (Bucephela clangula) in the Chena River System, Interior Alaska (R. Porter) | Abiotic Factors Affecting Bottomland Hardwood Tree Establishment on Restored Wetlands in Western Kentucky and Tennessee (D. Hicks) |
| 16:40 – 17:00 | Reporting out from Group Discussions | Landscape genetics reveals environmental drivers of historical reproductive barriers between Mexican ducks and mallards (J. Brown) | Evaluating the Mottled Duck Nest Predator Community in Southwest Louisiana Using Camera Traps and Artificial Nests (A. Dopkin) | |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Dinner break – on your own | |||
| 18:00 – 18:30 | Mentor/Mentee Event: (Grand Ballroom) | |||
| 19:00 – 21:00 | Student-only Social, Snacks Provided, Hosted by Delta Waterfowl Foundation: (Grand Ballroom) | |||
| 19:00 – 22:00 | Hospitality Suite, Sponsored by Ducks Unlimited | |||
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
| 6:30 – 8:00 | Breakfast: (Grand Ballroom) | |||
| Plenary 2: Considering diversity, equity, and inclusion in the field of waterfowl ecology and conservation (Governor’s Ballroom) | ||||
| 08:00 – 08:10 | Introduction: Kaylan Kemick | |||
| 08:10 – 08:50 | Leveraging Social Science to Support More Equitable and Inclusive Conservation Practices Megan Jones | |||
| 08:50 – 09:10 | Interagency Engagement in DEI: The Importance of Talking Over Fences Adam Phelps | |||
| 09:10 – 09:30 | Building Pathways: the Crossroads of R3, DEI, and Relevancy Taniya Bethke | |||
| 09:30 – 09:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| P2: cont… (Governor’s Ballroom) | ||||
| 09:50 – 10:10 | Empowering Women’s Participation in Hunting and Conservation: Current trends and knowledge gaps Katherine Graham | |||
| 10:10 – 10:30 | Partners in Conservation – Working with Alaska Migratory Bird Co-management Council Patty Schwalenberg | |||
| 10:30 – 10:50 | Confronting Colonial History: Toward Healing, Just, and Equitable Conservation Futures Tamara Layden | |||
| 10:50 – 11:10 | Supporting Inuit Participation in Wildlife Research Across the Short- and Long-Term Grant Gilchrist | |||
| 11:10 – 11:30 | Field Safety Strategies to Support At-Risk Researchers Lindsay Carlson | |||
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Panel discussion | |||
| 12:00 – 13:20 | Lunch Break: (Grand Ballroom) | |||
| A2.1: North American Mallard (Billiard Room) |
A2.2: Foraging and Bioenergetics (Library) |
A2.3: Breeding Ecology (Card Room) |
A2.4: Marking and Monitoring Populations (Renaissance Room) |
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| 13:20 – 13:40 | The meaning of wild: Genetic and adaptive consequences from large-scale releases of domestic mallards (P. Lavretsky) | True Metabolizable Energy of Waterfowl Foods in Illinois (T. Bradshaw) | Linear Feature Effects on Settling and Productivity of Ducks in the Western Boreal Forest (M. Dyson) | Effects of Surgically-Implanted GPS/GSM Transmitters on Captive Lesser Scaup (Aythya Affinis) Behavior and Breeding (C. Beach) |
| 13:40 – 14:00 | Reconstructing the Genomic and Morphological History of Wild Mallards Resulting from Game-farm Mallard Releases (L. McFarland) | Bioenergetic capacities of private lands enrolled in the Texas Prairie Wetlands Project (M. Greider) | Breeding waterfowl habitat selection in the Taiga and its contribution to future survey efforts (E. Reid) | An Assessment of Wood Duck Banding Needs for the Mississippi and Atlantic Flyways (C. Howard) |
| 14:00 – 14:20 | Game-farm mallard releases lead to hybridization and pose a threat to the genetic health and future adaptive potential of wild populations across North America (J. Brown) | Factors affecting use and depletion of unharvested flooded corn by wintering waterfowl (C. Highway) | Polar bear predation of Seaduck Nests: Causes, consequences, and Projections for the Future (G. Gilchrist) | Using Double-observer and Removal Methodology to Estimate Detection Probability during Upland Nest Drags (H. VeltKamp) |
| 14:20 – 14:40 | Morphology and food intake rate of wild and game-farm mallards (S. Halligan) | Estimating Energetic Density of Winter Foraging Habitat in South Atlantic Coastal Wetlands (S. Clements) | Spatial and temporal genetic structuring in colonially breeding red-breasted mergansers (Mergus serrator) (E. Burt) | Application of eBird Data to Enhance Monitoring and Planning for Migratory Waterfowl (K. Dunham) |
| 14:40 – 15:00 | Comparisons of morphology and feather patterns among genotypes of North American mallards (H. Collins) | Drivers of annual recruitment in sea duck Bioenergetics and Annual Movements of Green-Winged Teal (Anas crecca) in the Atlantic Flyway (C. Tiemann) | Forecasting waterfowl distribution and abundance in the Canadian Western Boreal in face of cumulative impacts of climate change (A. Cox) | Examining individual variation in samples of banded ducks at Delta Marsh, Manitoba (C. Vestby) |
| 15:00 – 15:20 | Understanding effects of domestic and wild mallard introgressive hybridization on spring migratory behavior (R. Askren) | Empirical evidence Mike Anderson is 1,576,800 times smarter than Mike Eichholz (M. Eichholz) | Long-term changes in nest sites of canvasback in a dramatically altered environment (M. Johnson) | Occurrence and abundance of wintering ducks detected on aerial surveys in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley (A. Wissmueller) |
| 15:20 – 15:40 | Coffee Break | |||
| A2.1: North American Mallard (Billiard Room) |
A2.2: Foraging and Bioenergetics (Library) |
A2.3: Body Condition and Physiology (Card Room) |
A2.4: Hunting and Harvest (Renaissance Room) |
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| 15:40 – 16:00 | Atlantic Flyway mallards: Deriving migration metrics from GPS/GSM data (D. Sparks) | An alternative for evaluating the energetic landscape for Mallards Anas platyrhynchos in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley, USA (B. Davis) | Diving at high altitude: O2 transport and utilization in Andean ruddy duck and torrent duck (K. McKracken) | Effects of Adaptive Harvest Management on Conflicts about Duck Harvest Regulations 1980-2022 (P. Garrettson) |
| 16:00 – 16:20 | Body mass dynamics in wintering mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley (J. Veon) | Re-evaluating Waterfowl Carrying Capacity Using Diet, Body Condition, and Foraging Behavior (J. Satter) | Physiological correlates of dive time in 16 species of North American diving ducks (E. Schell) | Temporal Relationships between the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp and the Duck Breeding Population: An Update of Vrtiska et al. (2013) (C. Chizinski) |
| 16:20 – 16:40 | duckDNA: Engaging Hunters in the Study of Waterfowl Genetics (A. Tunstall) | Foraging Interactions of Sympatric Waterfowl on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in Alaska (J. Tepsa) | Assessing Thiamine Deficiency in Diving and Sea Ducks in the Lake Ontario Watershed (J. Straub) | Harlequin Duck Harvest Closure in Washington State (K. Spragens) |
| 16:40 – 17:00 | Minding Our Mallards? Who’s Looking After the Mallards For the Next Generation(s) (M. Schummer) | Evaluating the Diets of Ducks Using South Atlantic Coastal Wetlands (S. Clements) | Development of Blood Metabolite Index for Mallards (J. Henson) | Hunting as a selective force on migration phenology and a mechanism for ‘stale’ ducks (B. Cohen) |
| 17:00 – 17:20 | The mallard in the Anthropocene (P. Söderquist) | Foraging and Diving Locations of Wintering Lesser Scaup in the Chesapeake Bay (H. Schley) | Serosurveillance for H5N1-subtype influenza A virus in hunting dogs from Washington State, USA (J. Brown) | Tier II duck hunting regulations in Nebraska and South Dakota (J. McKinney) |
| 17:20 – 19:00 | Dinner break – on your own | |||
| 19:00 – 22:00 | Poster Session: (Governor’s Ballroom) | |||
| 19:00 – 22:00 | Hospitality Suite, Sponsored by Ducks Unlimited | |||
Thursday, February 8, 2024
| 6:30 – 8:00 | Breakfast: (Grand Ballroom) | |||
| Plenary 3: Changing Duck Population Sex Ratios: Cause for Concern? (Governor’s Ballroom) | ||||
| 08:00 – 08:20 | Changing duck population sex ratios: cause for concern? Thomas Riecke | |||
| 08:20 – 08:40 | How Do Waterfowl Sex Ratios Change: Pacific Black Brant as a Case Study Caroline Blommel | |||
| 08:40 – 09:30 | What Lincoln’s Estimates Suggest About the Midcontinent Population of Mallards: Should We Be Worried? Ray Alisauskas | |||
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| P3: cont… (Governor’s Ballroom) | ||||
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Cross-seasonal survival models indicate that increased female summer mortality drives diverging sex ratios in midcontinent mallards Benjamin Sedinger | |||
| 10:20 – 10:40 | Sex-Specific Survival in Mallards May Be Related to Spatial Variation in Habitat Madeleine Lohman | |||
| 10:40 – 11:20 | Shifts in Sex Ratios of Dabbling, but Not Diving Ducks Are Driven By Declines in Survival of Females Daniel Gibson | |||
| 11:20 – 12:00 | Implications of Changing Duck Population Sex Ratios for Habitat and Harvest Management Thomas Riecke |
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| 12:00 – 13:20 | Lunch Break: (Grand Ballroom) | |||
| A3.1: Wood Duck Ecology (Card Room) |
A3.2: Waterfowl Distributions (Renaissance Room) |
A3.3: Human Dimensions (Library) |
A3.4: Remote Sensing (Billiard Room) |
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| 13:20 – 13:40 | Evaluating Deterrents to Reduce Depredation of Wood Duck Eggs in Nest Boxes (E. Miller) | Evaluating approaches for integrating species distributions in spatial conservation planning (J. Straub) | Evaluation of Students’ Perceptions of an Online University Course in Waterfowl Ecology and Management (L. Hernandez-Rubio) | Optimizing surveys of fall-staging geese using aerial imagery and automated counting (E. Weiser) |
| 13:40 – 14:00 | Productivity of wood duck clutches parasitized by hooded mergansers and black-bellied whistling-ducks (D. Bakner) | Human-induced range expansions result in a hybrid zone between Mottled and Mexican ducks in south Texas Brush Country (P. Lavretsky) | The North American Waterfowl Professional Educational Plan for the next generation of waterfowl conservationists (D. Eggeman) | Remote Sensing for Broad-Scale Population Surveys of Waterfowl: Progress and Challenges (B. Pickens) |
| 14:00 – 14:20 | A Study on Wood Duck Population Size and Harvest Effects: Unveiling the Complexities of Wood Duck Mortality Dynamics (A. Greenawalt) | Waterfowl survey design and species-habitat relationships in the Ring of Fire Region of Ontario (M. Dyson) | An assessment of the limitations to retain waterfowl and wetland trained graduate students (C. Nicolai) | Visibility correction factors for multiple species of waterfowl using an aerial remote sensing approach (L. Fara) |
| 14:20 – 14:40 | Wood Duck Artificial Nest Box Selection in the Delmarva Peninsula (B. Struthers) | Abundance and Distribution of Blue-winged Teal in California: A Review of the Last 150 years (C. Feldheim) | Assessment of Credentials and Experiences for a Successful Career in Waterfowl Science and Conservation (L. Hernandez-Rubio) | An Integrated System of Drones and Artificial Intelligence for Estimating Non-Breeding Waterfowl Abundance (R. Viegut) |
| 14:40 – 15:00 | The influence of shavings on wood duck reproductive ecology and eggshell bacteria (J. Shurba) | Evidence of shifts in the spatial distribution of harvested gamebirds from the Prairie Potholes over time (D. Gibson) | Building Diverse Support for Coastal Wildlife Management Areas to Achieve NAWMP’s Third Goal (B. Avers) | Progress toward automated migratory waterfowl census using drones and deep learning (R. Converse) |
| 15:00 – 15:20 | Method for Evaluating Cavity Suitability for Nesting Wood Ducks (C. Von Haugg) | Factors driving long-term changes in duck harvest distributions in the Central and Mississippi Flyways (B. Verheijen) | Profitability of farming wetlands does not meet farmer expectations (D.Toy) | Evaluation of Traditional Aircraft and UAV Survey Methodologies to Assess Wintering Waterfowl Populations (S. Braswell) |
| 15:20 – 15:40 | Coffee Break | |||
| A3.1: Wood Duck Ecology (Card Room) |
A3.2: Waterfowl Distributions (Renaissance Room) |
A3.3: Human Dimensions (Library) |
A3.4: Remote Sensing (Billiard Room) |
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| 15:40 – 16:00 | Egg Morphometrics and Egg Hatchability in Box-Nesting Wood Ducks (H. Mentges) | Assigning harvested waterfowl to geographic origin using isoscapes: What is the best analytical approach? (J. Cusack) | Social Science Integration Across Migratory Bird Joint Ventures (B. Avers) | UAV-based Waterfowl Detection Using Deep Neural Networks (Z. Loken) |
| 16:00 – 16:20 | Ducklings in a dangerous spacetime: Investigating the relationship between personality and growth across ontogeny in captive-reared Wood Ducks (Aix sponsa) (M. Hinton) | Integrating GPS telemetry and δ2H isoscapes to identify breeding ground fidelity and dispersal by mallards (D. Fowler) | Expectations Influence Satisfaction among Louisiana Waterfowl Hunters (M. Sullivan) | Uncrewed Aerial Systems Provide a Valuable Tool for Assessing Duck Production at Local Scales (A. Griswold) |
| 16:20 – 16:40 | Limited evidence of biased offspring sex allocation in a cavity-nesting conspecific brood parasite (C. Wells) | Natal Origins of Mallards in the Atlantic Flyway of North America: Implications for Conservation and Management (S. Kucia) | Implications of hunting outfitters in Saskatchewan (M. Gruntorad) | |
| 16:40 – 17:00 | Postbreeding Ecology of Wood Ducks in the Illinois River Valley (A. Gilbert) | Combining stable isotopes and band returns to derive origins of Great Lakes waterfowl (J. Kusack) | Cessation of mentors to waterfowl hunting (M. Vrtiska) | |
| 17:00 – 17:20 | Estimating Origins of Greater (Aythya marila) and Lesser (A. affinis) Scaup Wintering Along the Atlantic Coast Using Stable Isotopes and Band Recoveries (B. Fleming) | Delta’s University Hunting Program: bringing the NA Wildlife Conservation Model to campus (S. Sowell) | ||
| 17:20 – 17:40 | Geographic origins and genetics of banded mallards in the northern Atlantic and Mississippi flyways (K. Harvey) | |||
| Dinner break – on your own | ||||
| 19:00 – 22:00 | Hospitality Suite, Sponsored by Ducks Unlimited | |||
Friday, February 9, 2024
| 6:30 – 8:00 | Breakfast: (Grand Ballroom) | |||
| Plenary 4: Managing Waterfowl at a Continental Scale: challenges and opportunities (Governor’s Ballroom) | ||||
| 08:00 – 08:30 | Waterfowl Management: A Century of Progress and Future Challenges Dale Humburg | |||
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Waterfowl Monitoring and Management: Resiliency in a Resource Constrained Future Patrick Davers | |||
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Risk and Resilience: A Call for Flyway Scale Habitat Monitoring in the New Era of Climate Change Patrick Donnelly | |||
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Prairie Pothole Region Status Report: Implications for Continental Duck Populations Scott Stephens | |||
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Coffee Break | |||
| P4 Cont… (Governor’s Ballroom) | ||||
| 10:20 – 10:50 | Meeting Cross Seasonal Habitat Requirements of Waterfowl in a Shrinking Wetland Landscape John Vradenburg | |||
| 10:50 – 11:15 | The North American Waterfowl Management Plan: 40 years of adaptive conservation. Where do we go now? Tom Moorman | |||
| 11:15 – 11:40 | Integrating People in Waterfowl Conservation Diane Eggeman | |||
| 11:40 – 12:05 | Migratory Bird Joint Ventures: Delivering Waterfowl Conservation and More, Now and in the Future Tony Roberts | |||
| 12:05 – 13:20 | Lunch Break: (Grand Ballroom) | |||
| A4.1: Tracking Technologies (Renaissance Room) |
A4.2: Conservation Planning (Billiard Room) |
A4.3: Non-breeding habitat use and movement (Library) |
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| 13:20 – 13:40 | AIMS for wildlife: Developing an automated interactive monitoring system for true adaptive management (M. Casazza) | Incorporating Dynamic Processes Into Conservation Planning Tools (K. Kemink) | Habitat selection of American black ducks wintering in an urban estuary with increasing shellfish aquaculture (T. Mezebish Quinn) | |
| 13:40 – 14:00 | Lucky ducks: North American waterfowl hold secrets of successful conservation strategies (F. McDuie) | Developing a decision support tool for American black duck conservation during the non-breeding period (J. Coluccy) | Non-breeding Habitat Selection of Blue-winged Teal throughout the Central and Mississippi Flyways (B. Leach) | |
| 14:00 – 14:20 | Spatiotemporal variation in space-use of mallards and northern pintails wintering in southwest Louisiana (K. Goodenough) | Strategic Habitat Conservation Drives Conservation Delivery for Prairie-Breeding Waterfowl (H. Hagy) | Evaluating potential drivers of spring migration departure for northern pintail wintering in the Central Valley of California (A. McCarthy) | |
| 14:20 – 14:40 | Leveraging telemetry data to understand avian influenza ecology in wild birds (D. Prosser) | Evaluating conservation units at the continental scale using network analysis: A sea duck case study (J. Lamb) | Contrasting migratory chronology and routes of Lesser Scaup (L. Hall) | |
| 14:40 – 15:00 | Not All Sanctuaries Are Created Equal: Variation in Protected Area Selection by Wintering Mallards (E. Dittmer) | SWAMP: Updates on an agent-based model of winter foraging and energetics (R. Blenk) | Hunting constrains wintering mallard response to habitat and environmental conditions (C. Highway) | |
| 15:00 – 15:20 | Effects of landscape patterns on northern pintail movement and energetics during late winter (G. Eccles) | Informing waterfowl conservation planning with an agent-based model: quantifying mallard response to wetland composition and configuration (L. Webb) | Evaluating waterfowl use of rice agriculture in California’s Central Valley under shifting landscape conditions (C. Overton) | |
| 15:20 – 15:40 | Coffee Break | |||
| A4.1: Tracking Technologies (Renaissance Room) |
A4.2: Conservation Planning (Billiard Room) |
A4.3: Non-breeding habitat use and movement (Library) |
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| 15:40 – 16:00 | Transmitter Effects on Spring Migratory Step-lengths and Latitudinal Positioning of Winter-marked Female Mallards (D. Osborne) | Conservation Planning for Western Gulf Coast Mottled Ducks (J. Lancaster) | Impact of temporal refuge on hunter success at a Texas wildlife management area (T. McClinton) | |
| 16:00 – 16:20 | A closer look at staging areas: linking Atlantic brant behaviour with habitat type in James Bay (L. Carlson) | Incorporating Wetland Complex Characteristics to Improve Conservation Planning for Waterfowl and Hunters in the Lower Mississippi Valley (A. Mini) | Winter habitat selection of mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) and American black ducks (Anas rubripes) on eastern Long Island, NY (R. Stedman) | |
| 16:20 – 16:40 | Altitude selection in migrating geese produces a high risk of collision with offshore wind turbines (E. Weiser) | Human access constrains optimal foraging and habitat availability of mallards in an agriculturally-dominated landscape (N. Masto) | Wetland bird use and management of Louisiana and Texas Gulf-Coast ricelands (F. Buderman) | |
| 16:40 – 17:00 | Validating eBird using GPS telemetry to inform waterfowl responses to extreme weather event (O. Robinson) | Better Understanding Effects of Climate Change on Conservation of Breeding Waterfowl in the Prairie Pothole Joint Venture: a Review (H. Hagy) | Associating Sea Ducks with Coastal Habitats in British Columbia (B. Harrison) | |
| 17:00 – 17:20 | Panel Discussion | The Sea Duck Joint Venture: Accomplishments and Future Directions (K. Martin) | ||
| 17:20 – 17:40 | Panel Discussion | Can the lessons from the North American Waterfowl Management Plan be leveraged for shorebird conservation (C. Roy) | ||
| 17:40 – 19:00 | Break before Banquet | |||
| 18:30 – 19:00 | Cocktails (Governor’s Ballroom) | |||
| 19:00 – 22:00 | Banquet and Awards Dinner (Governor’s Ballroom) | |||