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EBBA & IBBA 2013 MEETING PROGRAM

Friday - April 5, 2013

  • 11:00 ~ 6:00 Registration - Lobby of the Park Lodge

  • 12:00 ~ 5:00 EBBA Council Meeting -

  • 6:30 ~ Dinner and Speaker - Main Dining Room
    • Stuart Carroll, Wildlife Biologist, Fall Creek Falls State Park
      • "The Cumberland Plateau"

Saturday - April 6, 2013

  • 8:00 ~ 11:00 Registration - Lobby of the Park Lodge

  • All Day - Bucket Raffle and Silent Auction Viewing -

Saturday Paper Sessions -

  • 8:30 ~ 8:45 Welcome, Introductions, Announcements

  • 8:45 ~ 5:30 A formal Schedule is in the works but we plan to have a banding demonstration first followed by paper presentations by:

  • 1. Emily V Hockman, UTN Knoxville - "Demonstration and Implementation of Autonomous Aerial Acoustic Recording Systems to Inventory DoD Installation Impact Areas for Threatened, Endangered, and Species at Risk Bird Populations."

  • 2. Chris Lituma, UTN Knoxville - "Spatially balanced monitoring for priority grassland birds in the Central Hardwoods BCR."

  • 3. Dan Small Field Ecologist, Center of Environment and Society, Washington College - "Post-fledging movement patterns and habitat use of hatch-year Grasshopper Sparrows during the dependent and independent life stages."

  • 4. Amelia Hudson, UTN Chattanooga - "Seasonal correlations between Pueraria Montana var. lobata (kudzu) and avian species diversity and relative abundance in Hamilton County, Tennessee."

  • 5. Melanie Reichley, Education Manager, North Bay Adventure -"Long-term study of effects of increased trail usage on forest interior dwelling species."

  • 6. Bruce Peterjohn, Chief, BBL, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center - Bird banding lab update and Bandit tutorial

  • 5:30 ~ 9:00 Cash Bar - Beer only

  • 6:30 ~ Banquet with Speaker -
    • Scott Somershoe, State Ornithologist, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
      • "The Eastern Golden Eagle Working Group: Eastern Golden Eagles wintering in the Appalachian Mountains and the southeast"
  • Conclusion:
      • David Hauber: Close of the Bucket Raffle and Silent Auction

Sunday - April 7, 2012

  • FIELD TRIPS - Leader, Ed LeGrand Hiking and birding in Fall Creek Falls State Park