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19 – 21 September 2026
Draft agenda – subject to change
Time | Day 1 |
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08:00 | Registration opens |
08:30 | Welcome to Country/Opening/housekeeping |
08:45 | Opening Plenary |
09:50 | Session A (4 Full extended Talks) Theme: Movement Ecology - Chair: Hui Yu |
1. Maxime Marini: Motus automated telemetry reveals movement patterns and site preferences during the non-breeding season in coastal Australian shorebirds, particularly at night and low-tide | |
2. Annie Broadway: Spatiotemporal movements of Sanderling (Calidris alba) throughout the non-breeding period in Southern Australia. | |
3. Danny Rogers: GPS-Tracking reveals differences between day and night habitat selection of Sharp-tailed Sandpipers at the Western Treatment Plant: potential causes and conservation management implications | |
4. Lin Yan: INTELINK: A distributed Infrastructure for low-power biologging, multi-modal mata annotation, and scalable citizen science | |
10:50 | Morning Tea (30 min) |
11:20 | Session B (4 Full extended Talks) Theme: Behaviour and Ecology - chair: Toby Ross |
5. Amelie Corriveau: Habitat preferences of Far Eastern Curlew in Australia: implications for conservation | |
6. TBD | |
7. Louise Williams: Diet of two threatened migratory shorebirds at a southern hemisphere non-breeding site determined through DNA metabarcoding | |
8. Takehiko Shimizu: Revealing high-resolution behavioral patterns of migratory shorebirds using large-scale standardized field surveys | |
12:20 | Lunch & Poster Session (90 min) - TECHNICAL WORKSHOP (TBA) |
P1. Chidera IGWE: Wetland habitat loss and the survival of migratory shorebirds: Emerging conservation challenges along the East Asian Australasian Flyway | |
P2. Daniel Lees: The importance of disturbance data in shorebird conservation | |
P3. Judith Little: History of shorebird banding in the Hunter Estuary | |
P4. Andrew McIntyre: What birds are we missing? Shorebird surveys of beach swales on Worimi Conservation Lands | |
13:50 | Session C (4 Full Talks) Theme: Behaviour and Ecology |
9. Micha Jackson: Nesting ecology of Far Eastern Curlew tracked from Australia | |
10. Mattea Taylor: Changes in habitat usage by shorebird communities in a highly urbanised and industrialised coastal estuary | |
11. Christophe Tourenq: Shorebirds' response to habitat restoration using targeted removal of mangroves at Curlew Point, Hunter estuary, NSW | |
12. Zoe Gilbert: Silver Gulls and egg discrimination: A behavioural paradigm. | |
14:50 | Afternoon coffee break (30 min) |
15:20 | Session D (4 Full extended Talks) Theme: Population Dynamics |
13. Mike Newman: Status and trends of migratory shorebirds in Tasmania, 1973 - 2026 | |
14. TBD | |
15. Tobias Ross: Surviving the times: 50 years of population dynamics of Australian migratory shorebirds | |
16. Callum Gapes: Quantifying spatial patterns of shorebird abundance in estuaries across Australia: the role of biophysical landscape characteristics | |
16:25 | Session I: Speed Talks (5 @ 5 min) |
1. Gray Gourlay: Presence of contaminants in the Hunter River Ramsar Wetlands and shorebird food chain | |
16:30 | 2. Jennie Beeson: Citizen science contributes to national and international site designation |
16:35 | 3. Max A. Wright: Stopover sites and migratory routes of Far Eastern Curlews tracked from Australia |
16:40 | 4. Micha Jackson: East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership Shorebird Working Group |
16:45 | 5. Andrew McIntyre: Birds of the Hunter's estuary habitats |
16:50 | 6. Syfe Xi: Mapping Far Eastern Curlew movements within a localised area |
16:55 | End of Day 1 |
Time | Day 2 |
|---|---|
08:00 | Registration opens |
08:30 | Opening/housekeeping/ |
08:45 | Morning Plenary |
09:50 | Session E (4 Full extended Talks) Theme: Threats & Conservation |
17. Inka Veltheim: Flight behaviour of highly mobile shorebirds: using tracking data to inform potential risk of wind energy impacts | |
18. Ly Minh Ngoc Tran: Impacts of seawall construction on food availability and movement patterns of migratory waterbirds in the Lianyungang Intertidal Wetlands | |
19. Tony Flaherty: Birds, bloom and gloom? harmful algal blooms and shorebirds, observations and lessons from South Australia. | |
20. Michael Connor: Is Australia sufficiently well prepared to protect shorebirds and shorebird habitats from the effects of oil spills? | |
10:50 | Morning Tea (30 min) |
11:20 | Session F (4 Full extended Talks) Theme: Threats and Conservation - chair: Sara Ryding |
21. Daniel Weller: Stockyard Hill Wind Farm migratory shorebird surveys and monitoring program: Lessons from a long-term dataset at an iInland wetland site | |
22. Chris Purnell: Floating roosts for shorebirds - a bandaid, not a silver bullet | |
23. Aisling Kelly: New South Wales' approach to preparedness and response to Avian Flu in shorebirds | |
24. Heather McGinness: Research and monitoring to inform planning for bird-borne disease outbreaks in waterbirds and wetlands of inland Australia | |
12:20 | Lunch & Poster Session (90 min) - TECHNICAL WORKSHOP (TBA) |
P5. Amanda Lilleyman: 10 years on and we have a recovery working group for the Far Eastern Curlew | |
P6. Ly Minh Ngoc Tran: Impacts of seawall construction on food availability and movement patterns of migratory waterbirds in the Lianyungang Intertidal Wetlands | |
P7. Debbie Andrew: Population trends of migratory and resident shorebirds of Botany Bay, New South Wales, over a nineteen-year period between 2001 and 2020. | |
P8. Simone Bosshard: TBA | |
P9. Karen Hedstrom: Interaction of Atlantic Horseshoe Crab (Limulus polyphemus) spawning and harvest with Rufus Red Knot (Calidris canutus rufa) ecology: Synthesis and knowledge gaps | |
13:50 | Session G (4 Full extended Talks) Theme: Migration - chair: Danny Rogers |
25. Batmunkh Davaasuren: Migratory connectivity and the role of inland wetlands in supporting shorebirds in Mongolia | |
26. Daniel Lees: Movement ecology of Exmouth Gulf Bar-tailed Godwit: auxiliary stopover locations too and from the arctic | |
27. Sara Ryding: There and back again: A ruddy turnstone's tale of migration | |
14:35 | Afternoon coffee break (30 min) |
14:50 | Session H (4 Full extended Talks) Theme: Citizen Science |
15:20 | 28. Alan Stuart: Shorebird surveys in the Hunter Estuary - a community engagement success |
29. Tom Clarke: Think Globally - Act Locally. 50 Years of caring for shorebirds by HBOC volunteers | |
30. Newcastle Infrastructure Group: TBA | |
31. Julia Roetman: It Takes a Flock: strong partnerships, dedicated volunteers, and a decade of change - Celebrating 10 Years of the Adelaide International Bird Sanctuary | |
32. Jamie Van Jones: From disturbance to stewardship: community-led shorebird conservation at Roebuck Bay, Western Australia | |
16:25 | Presentation of Awards |
16:45 | Conference Closure |
16:55 | End of Conference |
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