2019 Meeting of the American Oystercatcher Working Group
The 2019 Working Group meeting was held in Oyster, Virginia on November 5th and 6th at the Anheuser-Busch Coastal Research Center (ABCRC) to coincide with the 2019 Waterbird Society meeting in Princess Anne, Maryland. It was impeccably organized by Alex Wilke and Zak Poulton.
Meeting Documents
Presentations
- State of the AMOY Report – Shiloh Schulte
- Predator Management BP introduction and using cameras as essential tools for managing AMOY and PIPL on Metompkin Island – Alex Wilke, Zak Poulton, and Sarah Karpanty
- Habitat restoration strategies and lessons learned in Georgia – Tim Keyes
- Deployment of data loggers on American Oystercatcher in NC – Kate Goodenough
- American Oystercatcher management in Massachusetts – Kathy Parsons
- American Oystercatcher management in Florida – Janell Brush
- An update of the American Oystercatcher work in Sinaloa, Mexico – Guillermo Fernández, Ivonne Vega-Ruiz, José Alfredo Castillo-Guerrero, and Eduardo Palacios
State Updates
- Alabama – Lianne Koczur
- Connecticut – Corrie Folsom-O’Keefe, Elizabeth Amendola, Genevieve Nuttall
- Delaware – Henrietta Bellman
- Florida – Janell Brush
- Georgia – Tim Keyes and Abby Sterling
- Massachusetts – Karen Beattie, Kathy Parsons
- Maryland – Tami Pearl
- Mississippi – Melinda Averhart
- North Carolina – Lindsay Addison
- New Jersey – Todd Pover and Emily Heiser
- New York – Susan Elbin, Amanda Pachomski, Emily Liebert, Rob Longiaru, Kerri Dikun
- Rhode Island – Maureen Durkin, Shilo Felton
- South Carolina – Maureen Durkin, Felicia Sanders, Mary-Catherine Martin, Janet Thibault
- Texas – Susan Heath
- Virginia – Pam Denmon, Alex Wilke, Ruth Boettcher