Program
Conference Schedule
Events on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday take place in the MartiniPlaza,. Groningen, Netherlands
On Saturday, the Dutch National Owl Day will be celebrated in Meppel, Netherlands.
Wednesday, 31 October
8:00-10:00
10:00–13:00
13:00-14:00
14:00- 16:20
14:00-14:20 1.37
14:20-14:40 2.11
14:40-15:00 3.25
15:00-15:20 4.51
15:20-15:40 5.6
15:40-16:00 6.79
16:00-16:20 7.80
17:30- 19:30
19:30 – 21:00
21:00 – 21:30 | Registration and coffee
Workshop: Survey and Monitoring Techniques & Protocols
Lunch
Special session Survey and Monitoring (room 2)
BOMP: Establishing a Barn Owl monitoring scheme in the UK. Dave Leech, Carl Barimore, Colin Shawyer & Humphrey Crick
Developing methods for the field survey and monitoring of breeding Short-eared Owls Asio flammeus in the UK. John Calladine, Graeme Garner and Chris Wernham
Surveying winter roosts of Long-eared Owls in Serbia - experiences in developing a field methodology. Tatjana Jovanovic-Grove
Long-eared Owl Asio otus Winter Roost Survey in Serbia 2006/07. Milan B. Ruzic
A method of census survey and monitoring of Eurasian Eagle Owls in South India. Ambudoss Arvind
A citizen science based approach to monitoring Little Owl (Athene noctua) populations in Flanders, Northern Belgium. Dries Van Nieuwenhuyse, Maarten Bekaert, Friedel Nollet, Dany Depauw, and Gerdy Barbez
Assessment of Little Owl (Athene noctua) breeding biological data collected by volunteers in function of multiple-scaled habitat and breeding biological modeling. Maarten Bekaert, Dries Van Nieuwenhuyse, Ronald van Harxen, Pascal Stroeken, Philippe Smets, Jacques Bultot, Herman Berghmans, Jozef Van Kerckhoven and Luc Vanden Wyngaert.
Welcome Reception
Dinner (business room)
Slide show Serge Sorbi (room 14) |
Thursday, 1 November
8:00-8:45
8:45
8:50-9:30
9:30
| Registration
Official opening by the conference and morning chair, Johan de Jong (room 1)
Plenary (23): The Population Dynamics, Dispersal and Conservation of the ‘Canadian’ Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia). Geoff Holroyd, Helen Trefry, Jason Duxbury, and Enrique Valdez
Opening address by public representative |
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Concurrent Session 1: owl behaviour (room 2)
09:50-10:10
10:10-10:30
10:30-10:50 | 8.27 Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) Vocalizations and Associated Behaviors. Karla Kinstler
9.32 Aggressiveness under selection in Ural owl Strix uralensis? Pekka Kontiainen, Kalle Huttunen & Hannu Pietiäinen
Coffee |
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Concurrent Session 2: (cont’d)
10:50-11:10
11:10-11:30
11:30-11:50
11:50-12:10 | 10.12 A study of the mounting behaviour of Spotted Owlets Athene brama in Maharashtra, India. Dr. Pravin Charde1 and Raju Kasambe
11.14 Moult of the Northern Hawk-Owl Surnia ulula under conditions of captivity. Marian Cieślak and Zbigniew Kwieciński
12.41 Mobbing on the Striped Owl (Asio clamator) and Barn Owl (Tyto alba) by birds in south-east Brazil: do owl diets influence mobbing?
13.86 Is the activity of Tengmalm´s Owl (Aegolius funereus) during nesting in Middle Europe really biphasic?
Marketa Zarybnicka, Jan Zarybnicky, Vladislav Bezouska, Pavel Ded |
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Concurrent Session 2: owl fauna and eye special (room 1)
09:50-10:10
10:10-10:30
10:30-10:50 | 14.2 Owls of the Daraa Region of Southern Syria. Yousef Ali Alzaoby
15.58 Owls of Syria, their Distribution and Conservation. Adwan H. Shehab
Coffee |
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Concurrent Session 3: (cont’d)
10:50-11:10
11:10-11:30
11:30-11:50
11:50-12:10 | 16.65 Owls in the Czech Republic. Karel Stastny and Vladimir Bejcek
7.35 Owl fauna in Eastern Polissya region of Ukraine: number, distribution and breeding ecology. Yury Kuzmenko
18.77 Competitive exclusion and indirect interactions in the forest owl guild. Al Vrezec
19.84 The accommodation mechanism of the Owl - A new theory on the muscular contribution to the reflective changes of the lens crystallina of the Owl. Dr. J. Worst & H. Bloem |
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Concurrent Session 3: cultural significance of owls (room 2)
13:20-13:40
13:40-14:00
14:20-14:40
14:40-15:00
15:00-15:20
15:20-15:40 | 20.5 Prevalence of owl trapping communities and its ethnobiological significance in Tamilnadu, South India. Ambudoss Arvind
21.16 Socio-cultural values and attitudes towards Owls in Ethiopia. Yilma Dellelegn Abebe
22.46 ULUKA (OWL) in Sanskrit literature. Suruchi Pande, Satish Pande and Reuven Yosef
23.56 Study on perceptions of owls among women in rural and urban India. Sarika Sharma
24.44 Agricultural practices, rural culture and the conservation of Mackinder’s Eagle Owls in Central Kenya. Darcy Ogada
Coffee |
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Concurrent Session 3: habitat selection and special on systematics(cont’d)
15:40-16:00
16:00-16:20
16:20-16:40
16:40-17:00
17:00-17:40 | 25. 74 R. van Rompaey
26. 20 Home range size and habitat use of the Little Owl Athene noctua (Scopoli 1769) in Lublin Region (East Poland). Grzegorz Grzywaczewski
27.76 Habitat selection of Short-eared owl (Asio flammeus) in agricultural landscape. S.V. Volkov and T.V. Sviridova
28.17 Habitat selection of Scops Owl (Otus scops) on Ljubljansko barje (central Slovenia) in 2004-2006. Katarina Denac
29.83 Systematics & phylogeny of owls. Prof. Dr. Michael Wink |
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Concurrent Session 4: population trends and their causes.1 (room 1)
13:20-13:40
13:40-14:00
14:20-14:40
14:40-15:00
15:00-15:20
15:20-15:40 | 30.3 Eastern Screech-Owl (Megascops asio) breeding and population density at the northern periphery of the species’ range. Christian Artuso
31. 68 Investigating the causes of the population decline in the small, threatened Danish little owl population on the northern limit of the species’ range. Kasper Thorup, Peter Sunde, Lars B. Jacobsen, Miriam H. Holsegård-Rasmussen, Nina Ottessen, Susanne Svenne and Carsten Rahbek.
32.73 Limitations of owl reproduction in the wild: is there a role for food quality besides quantity? Arnold B. van den Burg
33.15 Come back of the Barn Owl (Tyto alba) in the Northern Netherlands: Population growth in relation to landscape features. Johan de Jong
34.85 Anthropogenic activity aids habitat selection and survival of the critically endangered Forest Owlet (Athene blewitti). Reuven Yosef, Lynette Mitchell, Amit P. Pawashe, Raju Kasambe, Satish A. Pande
Coffee |
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Concurrent Session 4 (cont’d)
15:40-16:00
16:00-16:20
16:20-16:40
16:40-17:00
17:00-17:40 | 35.30 Goshawks (Accipiter gentilis) and Tawny Owls (Strix aluco): a difficult combination. Fred J. Koning and H.J. Koning
36.31 The fading of a population of Long-eared Owls (Asio otus): a long term inventory of interactions between predators, prey species and vegetation development. Fred J. Koning, G.Baeyens and H.J.Koning
37.22 Hoot and reproductive success in owls. L.A. Hardouin, P. Tabel, C. Bavoux, G. Burneleau & V. Bretagnolle
38.21 Do males count neighbourhood? Evidence for a density-dependent territorial defense in the Little owl Athene noctua. Loïc A. Hardouin & V. Bretagnolle
39.52 Bad news and good news: population trends of Finnish owls during 1982–2006. Pertti Saurola |
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17:40
18:00-19:30
19:30-20:10
20:10-21:00 | BREAK FOR THE EVENING
Dinner
Evening program: room 1
Slide and film presentation: How Dutch Owls Behave. Eddy Kuis and Arnold van den Burg
Film presentation: Owls in the Mist. Claus & Ingrid König |
Friday, 2 November
8:30-9:00
9:00-9:40 | Registration Plenary (67) – Do owls follow the rules? Iain R. Taylor |
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Concurrent Session 5: forests and owls (room 2)
09:50-10:10
10:10-10:30
10:30-10:50 | 40.43 Application of Forest Inventory and Analysis data sets for Flammulated Owl (Otus flammeolus) habitat in the United States. Mark D. Nelson and David H. Johnson
41.36 Food Habit and Nesting Behavior of Collared Scops-Owl (Otus bakkamoena Pennant) in Chanthaburi province, Thailand. K. Leadprathom, V. Chimchome, S. Bumrungsri
Coffee |
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Concurrent Session 5: snowy owls (cont’d)
10:50-11:10
11:10-11:30
11:30-11:50
11:50-12:10 | 42.60 Satellite Tracking of Snowy Owls from Massachusetts, USA. Norman Smith
43.39 Reaction of snowy owl (Nyctea scandiaca L.) population on lemming number fluctuations on Wrangel Island under global climatic changes. Irina E. Menyushina
44.59 Numerical and functional responses of the Snowy Owl to a lemming population - insights from a long-term study in High Arctic Greenland. Benoit Sittler, Olivier Gilg, Adrian Aebischer, Brigitte Sabard, Raphael Sane & Arnaud Hurstel
45.61 Norwegian Snowy Owl Project. Roar Solheim and Karl-Otto Jacobsen |
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Concurrent Session 6: population trends and their causes.2 (room 1)
09:50-10:10
10:10-10:30
10:30-10:50 | 46.63 Age, sex and size of dead Tawny Owls found during a winter famine in 2006 in Norway. Roar Solheim
47.54 Life history and reproductive success in Tengmalm’s Owl. Ortwin Schwerdtfeger
Coffee |
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Concurrent Session 6: (cont’d)
10:50-11:10
11:10-11:30
11:30-11:50
11:50-12:10 | 26 Impact of blood parasites on Ural owl (Strix uralensis) reproduction. Patrik Karell
49.62 Ural owls at the border line: Nesting places are not a limiting factor. Roar Solheim1, Jon Bekken, Rune Bjørnstad, Frode N. Bye, Torger K. Hagen, Kjell Isaksen & Hallvard Strøm
50.15 Barn Owls and Major Roads – Results of a 15-year study in Great Britain. David J Ramsden
51.29 Do guild members of the generalist Tawny Owl (Strix aluco) affect its food niches? Fred J. Koning and H.J. Koning |
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Friday continued 1
13:20-14:20
14:20-14:40
14:40-15:00
15:00-15:20
15:20-15:40
15:40 -16:00 | Poster session Egg candling demonstration. P. Beersma During the afternoon there will be a continuously repeated stereo presentation on the morphology and functioning of the avian eye, by Dr J. Worst & H. Bloem.
Concurrent Session 7: biology, status & conservation of world’s owls (free entrance for general public) (room 1)
52.24 Status and habitat utilization of forest owls in the Western Ghats of South India. E. A. Jayson, S. Babu, M. Sivaram, and Eldho Varghese
53.42 Prey selection by the Striped Owl (Asio clamator) in south-east Brazil. José Carlos Motta-Junior & Adriana de Arruda Bueno
54.8 The Ural Owl Strix uralensis population dynamics and range extension in the Western Ukraine. Andriy-Taras Bashta
55.70 Distribution, density and habitat relationships of the Ural owl Strix uralensis macroura in Croatia. Vesna Tutis, Dragan Radovic, Davor Cikovic, Sanja Barisic
Coffee |
Friday continued 2
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Concurrent Session 7: (cont’d)
16:00-16:20
16:20-16:40
16:40-17:00
17:00-17:20
17:20-17:40 | 56.66 The diet and food caching of Tengmalm’s Owl Aegolius funereus beickianus in the breeding season in Gansu, China. Tang Song-Hua1,2, Gu Yuan1,2, Fang Yun1, Sun Yue-Hua1
57.82 Habitat selection of the Hume's Tawny Owl Strix butleri in the Arava Valley. Noam Weiss & Reuven Yosef
58.75 Owls of Northern Eurasia: present status and population trends. S.V. Volkov and A.V. Sharikov
59.33 Population and range expansion of boreal forest owls (Glaucidium passerinum Strix uralensis, Strix nebulosa and Aegolius funereus) in Eastern Europe. Grzegorz Kopij
60.47 Distribution and Conservation Status of Owls in Malaysia. Chong Leong Puan |
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Concurrent Session 8: AG-Eulen (note different time schedule) (room 2)
14:20-14-50
14:50-15:20
15:20-15:50
15:50-16:10 | Der Davidskauz Strix uralensis davidi aus den Gebirgswäldern Chinas/Tibets – nicht länger ein „Phantom“/The Sichuan Wood Owl Strix uralensis davidi from the mountain forests of China/Tibet – no longer a “phantom”. W. Scherzinger
Zur Ektoparasitenfauna des Sperlingskauzes (Glaucidium passerinum) in Thüringen/ The ectoparasite fauna of the pygmy owl (Glaucidium passerinum) in Thüringen. J. Wiesner
Schleiereule Tyto alba: Mehrfachbruten in Südniedersachsen/ Barn Owl Tyto alba: multiple breeding in southern Lower Saxony, Germany. E. Kniprath & S. Stier
Coffee |
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Friday continued 2
16:10-16:40
16:40-17:10
17:10-17:40 | Langjährige Untersuchungen an der Waldohreule Asio otus auf einer Kontrollfläche in Brandenburg/ Long-term studies on the Long-eared owl in Brandenburg, Eastern Germany. B. Block
Bestandsentwicklung und Nachwuchsrate des Steinkauzes Athene noctua in Südbaden/ Breeding population trend and reproduction of the Little owl in Südbaden, SW Germany. C. Stange
Kurzbeiträge/ Short Contributions |
18:00-19:00
19:00
20:30 | 3 Concurrent meetings:
Mitgliedertreffen der AG-Eulen (room 2)
Snowy Owl work group
Short-eared Owl work group
Dinner
Evening program: room 14
Film: Feathered Goblins. Claus & Ingrid König
Film: Fascination Tengmalm’s Owl (Aegolius funereus) – Insights into his secret life. |
Tours on Saturday 3 November
1) Meppel: “Dutch Owl Day” (free) Time of departure: 8:30 by bus 2) Schiermonnikoog (island in the Waddenzee)
Time of departure 8:00 (by bus)
9:30 (by boat)
arrival on the island at 10:15
We visit the whole island by bike and bring a visit to the duck decoy.
price: 25 Euro (all in)
Schiermonnikoog is one of the Frisian islands between the North See and the shallow Wadden Sea. The island measures 15 x 3 km. There is one village at the western end of the island with approximately 1000 inhabitants. Schiermonnikoog can only be reached from the mainland by ferry. The Dutch Wadden See (total length 120 km) is characterized by extensive tidal flats, intersected by numerous creeks and channels. Schiermonnikoog has many different landscapes and a Natural Park (1890 ha).
The main habitat types of the island are:
· sandy beaches
· dunes (forming the central part of the island)
· salt marsh with creeks
· grassland polder (protected by dike in the south)
· fresh water lakes (Westerplas)
· duck decoy
· pine forest
· tidal flats with creeks and channels (Wadden See, south of the island)
So Schiermonnikoog is a paradise for birdwatchers in autumn: f.e. Pink-footed Goose,
Greater White-fronted Goose, Greylag Goose, Barnacle Goose, Brent Goose, Mallard,
Northern Pintail, Common Teal, Eurasian Golden Plover, Northern Lapwing, Dunlin
Red Knot, Bar-tailed Godwit, Eurasian Oystercatcher, Common Eider.
3) Friesland : Birding around the Lauwersmeer (geese and ducks)
Time of departure: 9:00 by bus (bus-tour)
Price: 15 Euro (lunch and coffee with the compliments of the Province Friesland)
One of the best bird-site in the Netherlands are the wetlands of the Lauwersmeer and the surrounding grasslands and the lake-district. Friesland is well-known for its large flocks of West-palearctic goose and swan species with frequent visit its lowlands during migration and winter. In the northern province of Friesland you can observe thousands of geese (15- 20 species!!), such as White-fronted Goose (300.000), Greylag Goose (30.000), Barnacle Goose (200.000), Pink-Footed Goose (50.000) and some varieties of Bean Goose and Brent Goose (15.000).
With a bit of luck you see Lesser White-fronted Goose, Snow Goose, Bar-headed Goose, Canada Goose, Red-breasted Goose and the Egyptian Goose.
During this excursion other species may include: Whooper, Tundra and Mute Swan, Great White Egret, Pintail, Dunlin, Curlew, Hen Harrier, Merlin, Peregrine, Kestrel, Golden Plover, Hooded Crow, Fieldfare and Redwing.
Sunday, November 4th 2007
8:30-9:00
9:00-9:40
| Registration.
Plenary (23): The Population Dynamics, Dispersal and Conservation of the ‘Canadian’ Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia). Geoff Holroyd, Helen Trefry, Jason Duxbury, and Enrique Valdez. |
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Concurrent Session 9: Prey selection (Room 3)
09:50-10:10
10:10-10:30
10:30-10:50 | 67.10 The Long-eared Owl – is it a Foraging Specialist? A Review. Simon Birrer
68.72 Prey Selection in Eagle Owl (Bubo bubo ussuriensis) in Mongolia. Javkhlantsetseg Tumurbat, Gombobaatar Sundev, Reuven Yosef
Coffee |
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Concurrent Session 9: Conservation (cont’d)
10:50-11:10
11:10-11:30
11:30-11:50
11:50-12:10 | 69.48 Protection activities of Barn Owls (Tyto alba) and Little Owls (Athene noctua) in southeastern Czech Republic. Libor Opluštil.
70.43 Nest box use by barn owls Tyto alba in a biological pest control program in the Beit She'an Valley, Israel. Kobi Meyrom Yoav Motro, Yossi Leshem, Shaul Aviel, Ido Izhaki, Francis Argyle, Motti Charter.
71.60 Population changes and conservation of the Western Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia hypugaea) in North America: a 10-year update. Steven R. Sheffield.
72.14 What fate waiting for owls in Bangladesh? Md. Moshinuzzaman Chowdhury. |
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Concurrent Session 10: threats and conservation (Springer Room)
09:50-10:10
10:10-10:30
10:30-10:50 | 73.152 Barn Owls and Major Roads – Results of a 15-year study in Great Britain. David J Ramsden.
74.53 Criteria for the evaluation of Barn Owl nestbox designs. David J Ramsden.
Coffee |
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Concurrent Session 10: (cont’d)
10:50-11:10
11:10-11:30
11:30-11:50
11:50-12:10 | 75.1 Juvenile dispersal and mortality factors in Eagle owls (Bubo bubo) assessed by satellite telemetry - toward targeted conservation measures. Adrian Aebischer, Silvia Koch, Peter Nyffeler & Raphael Arlettaz.
76.74 Unexpected high PCB concentrations in Eagle owl (Bubo bubo) from limestone quarries in Limburg, The Netherlands. Nico W. van den Brink & Hugh A.H. Jansman.
77.58 Impact of environmental pollution on immune response in owls in India. Amit Sharma.
78.4 Anthropocentric pressure-induced decline in status and distribution of Eurasian Eagle Owls and initiation of participatory conservation measures - A case study in Tamilnadu, South India. Ambudoss Arvind. |
12:10-13:20
13:30-16:00
13:30-14:10
14:10-14:50
14:50-15:10
15:10-15:30
15:30-16:00
16:00 | LUNCH
Plenary Closing Contributions (Springer Room.)
79.84 Systematics & phylogeny of owls. Prof. Dr. Michael Wink, Abdel-Aziz El-Sayed, J.Gonzalez.
80. Slide show Serge Sorbi.
81.82 The Philippine Owl Conservation Programme. Tony Warburton.
82.56 Attempts for re-introducing the Ural Owl Strix uralensis in Bohemian resp. Bavarian Forest. Wolfgang Scherzinger.
83. Closing address Iain R. Taylor & Arnold B. van den Burg.
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