2015 Meeting of the American Oystercatcher Working Group

The fifteenth annual meeting of the American Oystercatcher Working Group was 11 August 2015 at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, in conjunction with the 39th annual meeting of the Waterbird Society. In addition to our business meeting, we held an all day symposium dedicated to oystercatcher research! We were also fortunate to have four colleagues from Mexico join us for our business meeting and oystercatcher symposium. Set in Acadia National Park this meeting, held in conjuction with the Waterbird Society, provided an excellent setting for learning, collaboration, and wildlife viewing! A big thank you to John Anderson for hosting us at College of the Atlantic and to Alex Wilke, Ruth Boettcher, Tracy Borneman, Sue Heath, Pam Denmon, Felicia Sanders and Ted Simons for organizing our meeting and symposium.

Meeting Documents

• Meeting Highlights and Action Items
• Meeting Notes

Schedule

• Monday, 10 Aug:  Travel Day/li>
• Tuesday, 11 Aug:  Meeting Day/li>
• Wednesday, 12 Aug: Oystercatcher Symposium

Call for Papers

The American Oystercatcher Working Group is in the process of composing a special issue journal on oystercatchers in the western hemisphere. We will be accepting manuscripts for consideration through October 1, 2015. Please contact Pamela Denmon, 757-331-2760 x 112, if you are interested in contributing!

Presentations

• The American Oystercatcher Band Database: Submitting Data to the Bird Banding Lab
  Jo Lutmerding and Lindsay Addison
• 2015 AMOY Repeated Breeding Survey: A Preliminary Summary
  Ruth Boettcher and Ted Simons
• Non-breeding Abundance, Distribution and Habitat Use by American Oystercatcher Haematopus palliatus fazari in Sinaloa, Mexico
  Miriam Lerma, José Alfredo Castillo-Guerrero, and Eduardo Palacios