2008 Meeting of the American Oystercatcher Working Group
The eighth annual meeting of the American Oystercatcher Working group was held 17-19 November 2008 on St. Catherine’s Island, Georgia and was hosted by Brad Winn of the Georgia DNR and the St. Catherine’s Island Foundation.
Meeting Documents
Presentations
- Alexandra Wilke, Barry Truitt (The Nature Conservancy – VA Coast Reserve) Ruth Boettcher, Carissa Smith (VA Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries), Pam Denmon, Amanda Daisey, Eva Savage (US Fish and Wildlife Service), and Brian Watts (Center for Conservation Biology)
American Oystercatchers in Virginia: 2008 update - Shiloh Schulte, Ted Simons (North Carolina State University), and The American Oystercatcher Working Group
Oystercatchers in Motion - Susan Cameron (NC Wildlife Resources Commission)
Update on American Oystercatchers in North Carolina - Felicia Sanders (SC Dept of Natural Resources) and Patrick Jodice, Janet Thibault and Christy Hand (Clemson University)
South Carolina American Oystercatchers - Pam Denmon, Amanda Daisey, Eva Savage (US Fish and Wildlife Service)
Fisherman Island National Wildlife Refuge - Terry Norton, DVM (St. Catherine’s Island Wildlife Programs and Georgia Sea Turtle Center)
The American Oystercatcher: A bioindicator species for assessing ecosystem health - Doris and Patrick Leary (Fernandina Beach, FL)
Origin and Distribution of American Oystercatchers wintering in Dixie, Levy, and Citrus counties - Brian Shamblin (University of Georgia)
Genetics for Managers: Defining population structure and demographic connectivity - Tom Virzi (Rutgers University)
Predicting American Oystercatcher Breeding Distribution in an Urbanized Coastal Ecosystem Using Maximum Entropy Modeling
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