Day 1 – December 10: Atlantic Marine Bird Cooperative Session
8:30 AM Introductions, Logistics, Meeting Objectives (Caleb)
8:45 AM AMBC Overview & Website (Caleb)
9:00 AM AMBC Organization & Development (Caleb)
- Review new AMBC process for making science-based recommendations (5 min)
- AMBC priority species list – need, audience, and 2nd call for subteam volunteers (15 min)
-Process suggestions (other successful examples)
- Call for 2024 partner project summaries & accomplishments (5 min)
- At-large Steering Committee Member Nominations (10 min)
- Other business (10 min)
-Interest in co-leading bycatch WG
– 2025 venue
9:45 AM Leach’s Storm-Petrel Conservation Plan for Eastern North America Presentation & Discussion (Sue Abbott & Linda Welch)
10:05 AM North American Waterbird Conservation Plan Revision Effort & potential AMBC engagement (Sara Schweitzer)
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10:20 AM – BREAK (10 minutes)
10:30 AM World Seabird Union Update (Juliet Lamb)
10:45 AM Working Group Updates; Review of Team objectives & Full group input; Breakout Meeting Goals (~20min/ea)
- Community Science & Marine Bird Health
- Forage Fish + Seabird Colonies & Adjacent Waters (SCAW)
- Marine Spatial Planning
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11:45 AM – LUNCH (60 minutes)
12:45 PM Working Group Break Out Meetings (Session 1) – Two concurrent breakouts
- Community Science & Marine Bird Health [NOTE: Breakout was not recorded, but see notes]
- Forage Fish + SCAW
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2:45 PM – BREAK (10 minutes)
2:55 PM Working Group Break Out Meetings (Session 2) – Single breakout
- Marine Spatial Planning – Same link as main meeting (see above or click here)
4:55 PM Working Group Report Outs & Discussion – 10 min / working group
- Community Science & Marine Bird Health
- Forage Fish + Seabird Colonies & Adjacent Waters (SCAW)
- Marine Spatial Planning
5:25 PM – END
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Day 2 – December 11: General Presentations – AMBC & Roseate Tern
8:30 AM Housekeeping – (Caleb & Alison)
(Type in names, affiliations, briefly go over Teams)
8:40 AM Health, Disease & Threats – Diann Prosser – session lead
8:40-8:55 Joanna Harvey – Standardizing the response: Decision tools for robust marine bird mortality assessments
8:55-9:10 Diann Prosser – Identifying the exposure and response of understudied waterbird species to Avian Influenza Viruses
9:10-9:25 Amber Litterer – Assessing movement patterns of Brown Pelicans and American Oystercatchers in relation to areas of PFAS concentration
9:25-9:40 Iman Pakzad – Evaluating the performance of machine learning approaches for estimating seabird bycatch in U.S. Atlantic pelagic longline fisheries
9:40-9:55 Liam Taylor – Strengths and limitations of using participatory science data to characterize a wildlife mass mortality event
9:55-10:10 Section Q&A + Discussion
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10:10 AM – BREAK (15 minutes)
10:25 AM Foraging Ecology, Diet & Prey – Michelle Staudinger – session lead
10:25-10:40 Gibson Rieger – Foraging hotspot surveys reveal divergent prey patch characteristics used by sympatric breeding alcid species in coastal Newfoundland, Canada
10:40-10:55 Paul Spitzer – A Long Term Synthesis: Long-term synthesis: Cumulative ecological studies of non-breeding Common Loons
10:55-11:10 Ruby Schweighardt – Assessing diet change in endangered Roseate Terns (Sterna dougallii) and congenerics on Country Island, Nova Scotia
11:10-11:25 Evan Adams – Multi-decadal changes in seabird and forage fish distributions in the Northwest Atlantic
11:25-11:40 Michelle Staudinger & Natasha Gownaris – Multi-metric energetic analyses for seabird prey in the Northwest Atlantic
11:40-11:55 Section Q&A + Discussion
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11:55 PM – LUNCH (50 minutes)
12:45 PM Colonial Waterbird Management & Monitoring — Ruth Boettcher – session lead
12:45-1:00 Yvan Satgé -Atlas of breeding sites for waterbirds in the northern Gulf of Mexico: A new tool to facilitate the management and conservation of waterbirds along coastal northern Gulf of Mexico
1:00-1:15 Ruth Boettcher – Urban seabird colonies: are they a source or sink?
1:15-1:30 Joan Walsh – Draft results of conservation and climate adaptation planning at Great Gull Island, NY
1:30-1:40 Section Q&A + Discussion
1:40 PM At-sea Surveys – J. Christopher Haney – session lead
1:40-1:55 J. Christopher Haney – Vessel surveys and seabird restoration in the Gulf of Mexico
RECORDING 7 & 1st part of RECORDING 8
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1:55-2:10 Greg Forcey – Interannual variation in bird abundance at Virginia offshore wind turbines
2:10-2:20 Section Q&A + Discussion
2:20 PM – BREAK (10 minutes)
2:30 PM Offshore Wind Science & Mitigation – Kate Williams – session lead
2:30-2:45 Kate Williams – Stakeholder engagement and ongoing research efforts to inform our understanding of the effects of offshore wind energy development on marine birds
2:45-3:00 Julia Gulka – A review of mitigation options for birds and bats at offshore wind facilities
3:00-3:15 Stephanie Avery-Gomm – Framework for assessing the cumulative effects of offshore wind energy development and other pressures on aerofauna in Atlantic Canada
3:15-3:30 Holly Goyert – SCRAM 2: Modeling the movements of listed shorebird and seabird species to estimate collision risk with offshore wind turbines
3:30-3:50 Section Q&A + Discussion
3:50 PM Tracking Studies, Part 1 – Juliet Lamb – session lead
3:50-4:05 Peter Paton – Breeding and post-breeding movements of Great Black-Backed Gulls in southern New England
4:05-4:20 Juliet Lamb – Habitat use of Northern Gannets during wintering and migration across a developing wind energy seascape
4:20-4:50 Section Q&A + Discussion
4:50 PM – END
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Day 3 – December 12: General Presentations (cont.) & Roseate Tern (ROST) Recovery Group Session
8:30 AM Intro/Housekeeping (10 min)
8:40 AM Tracking Studies, Part 2 (Common & Roseate Terns) – Keenan Yakola – session lead
8:40-8:55 Keenan Yakola – GPS tracking of Roseate Terns from New England to Brazil
8:55-9:10 Pam Loring – Tracking Movements of terns that use New England staging sites
9:10-9:25 John Herbert – Winter GPS Tagging of Roseate Terns in Northeast Brazil
9:25-9:40 Elizabeth Craig – Evaluating effects of attaching GPS tags using leg-loop harnesses on common and roseate tern reproductive success and provisioning behavior in the Northwest Atlantic
9:40-10:15 Discussion
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10:15 AM BREAK (45 minutes)
11:00 AM Roseate Tern Colony Updates
Europe
11:10 UK and Ireland (Rebekah Goodwill & Steve Newton, 10 min)
Florida
11:20 Florida (Ricardo Zambrano, 5 min)
Caribbean
11:25 US Virgin Islands offshore Cays (Victoria Beasley, 5 min)
11:30 Puerto Rico (Sean Kelly, 5 min)
Northwest Atlantic – Update Slides
11:35 Introduction to Rachel Stevens, ESA POC for Roseate Tern
All Colony Update (Rachel Stevens, 15 min)
11:50 Atlantic Canada, North Brother Island, Nova Scotia (Shawn Craik, 5 min)
11:55 Maine Coastal Islands (Don Lyons/Sue Schubel, 5 min)
12:00 New Hampshire (Liz Craig, 5 min)
12:05 Buzzards Bay, MA (Carolyn Mostello, 5 min)
12:10 Monomoy, MA (Eileen McGourty, 5 min)
12:15 Norton Point, MA (Jamie Infanti, 5 min)
12:20 Connecticut (Kris Vagos, 5 min)
12:25 New York, GGI (Margaret Rubega, 5 min)
12:30-12:50 Questions for Colony Managers & Discussion (20 min)
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12:50 AM LUNCH (50 min)
1:40 PM Roseate Tern – Colony Management & Monitoring Studies
1:40-1:55 Cindy T Barreto – Update: Whose nest is this? ROST and COTE eggs are not reliably distinguished by egg shape
1:55-2:10 Jessica Espinosa – Can nesting in boxes mitigate nest site loss due to sea level rise for endangered Northern Atlantic roseate terns?
2:10-2:30 Discussion led by Kris Vagos
2:30 PM USGS Bird Banding Lab & Banding Guidance
2:30-3:05 Presentation & Discussion – Jennifer McKay – Bird Banding Laboratory Myths, Misconceptions, Dos, Don’ts, and Recent Changes & Bird Banding Laboratory Submitted ROST Data: An Update
RECORDING 11 & 1st part of RECORDING 12
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3:05 PM Roseate Tern – Non-Breeding Studies
3:20-3:35 Rafael Ângelo Revorêdo – Reducing Tern Mortality with Power Line Markers in Brazil
3:35-3:55 Discussion led by John Herbert
3:55 PM RFI Habitat Use Map for Roseate Tern
3:55-4:15 Presentation & Discussion – Henry Woolley
4:15 PM Roseate Tern Recovery Planning General Discussion
4:15-4:25 Jessica Espinosa – Roseate Tern SSA
4:25-4:45 Roseate Tern Recovery Discussion
4:45 PM Roseate Tern – Other Topics for Discussion
5:00 PM End