2014 Meeting of the American Oystercatcher Working Group
The fourteenth annual meeting of the American Oystercatcher Working Group will be held 27-30 October 2014 at the Gulf Coast Bird Observatory’s Lake Jackson sanctuary in Lake Jackson, Texas. It is being hosted by Sue Heath and the Gulf Coast Bird Observatory with help from Audubon Texas.
Meeting Documents
Schedule
- Monday, 27 Oct: Travel Day
- Tuesday, 28 Oct: Meeting Day 1
- Wednesday, 29 Oct: Meeting Day 2
- Thursday, 30 Oct: Field Trip Day
Presentations
Summaries of state updates were made available on a Google Doc.
- State of AMOY recovery initiative – Shiloh Schulte
- Repeated count surveys help standardize multi-agency estimates of American Oystercatcher abundance – Ted Simons and Nathan Hostetter
- AMOY Rangewide Breeding Survey Redux – Ruth Boettcher and Ted Simons
- 2015 Oystercatcher Symposium Call for Papers flyer
- Fish, Swim, and Play from 50 Yards Away… – Kacy Ray
- Effects of off-road vehicles on American Oystercatchers nesting at Cape Hatteras National Seashore – Tracy Borneman
- A time activity budget of American Oystercatchers and investigation of factors affecting breeding adult behavior during the incubation and chick rearing periods – Amanda Anderson
- AMOY and WIPL Reproductive Success in Georgia – Abby Sterling
- The factors affecting daily nest and brood survival and body condition of American Oystercatchers along the upper Texas Coast – Amanda Anderson
- Nest Site Selection of AMOYs on the Upper Texas Coast – Sasha Munters
- Cooperative Management in Massachusetts – Kathy Parsons and Shiloh Schulte
- Harnessing a Collaborative Database for Demographic Modeling of American Oystercatchers – Shilo Felton and Lindsay Addison
- Database Administration – Lindsay Addison
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