2016 Meeting of the American Oystercatcher Working Group

The American Oystercatcher Working Group held its 16th annual meeting November 15-17 at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science’s Eastern Shore Laboratory in the town of Wachapreague, VA. Our days were filled with lively discussions of our progress as a working group and our goals for the future. To end the meeting we were rewarded with delicious local seafood and BBQ at The Nature Conservancy’s Brownville Preserve and a trip to Parramore Island. Thank you to Ruth Boettcher, Alex Wilke, and Pam Denmon for organizing and making this meeting such a success!

Meeting Documents

• Draft Meeting Agenda
• Meeting Information
• Wachapreague Local Information
• Meeting Notes

Presentations

• Welcome to Wachapreague – Zak Poulton & Jeremy Tarwarter
• AMOY Recovery Initiative: 2016 Working Group Update – Shiloh Schulte
• Multi-state (Unfunded) Effort to Develop Standardized Survey Methods for Estimating Breeding Abundances of American Oystercatchers in Diverse Coastal Habitats – Ruth Boettcher
• American Oystercatcher Band Database – Lindsay Addison
• American Oystercatcher Working Group Structure – Pam Denmon & Shiloh Schulte
• Working Group Future Directions and Priorities – Todd Pover & Alex Wilke
• Restoring Florida’s Beach-nesting Birds – Janell Brush & Shiloh Schulte

State Updates

• Massachusetts – Kathy Parsons
• New Jersey – Todd Pover
• Virginia – Alex Wilke
• North Carolina – Sara Schweitzer
• South Carolina – Felicia Sanders
• Georgia – Tim Keyes
• Florida – Janell Brush
• Texas – Susan Heath
• Northwest Mexico – Eduardo Palacios