08:00

Registration opens

Registration opens

08:30

Welcome to Country/Opening/housekeeping

Opening/housekeeping

08:45

Keynote Speaker talk

Keynote Speaker talk

09:50

Session A (4 Full Extended Talks)

Session E (4 Full Extended Talks)

Theme: Movement Ecology - Chair: Hui Yu

Theme: Threats & Conservation

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

Inka Veltheim: Flight behaviour of highly mobile shorebirds: using tracking data to inform potential risk of wind energy impacts

Annie Broadway: Spatiotemporal movements of Sanderling (Calidris alba) throughout the non-breeding period in Southern Australia.

Ly Minh Ngoc Tran: Impacts of seawall construction on food availability and movement patterns of migratory waterbirds in the Lianyungang Intertidal Wetlands

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

Tony Flaherty: Birds, bloom and gloom? Harmful algal blooms and shorebirds, observations and lessons from South Australia.

Lin Yan: INTELINK: A distributed infrastructure for low-power biologging, multi-modal data annotation, and scalable citizen science

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)

Morning Tea (30 min)

11:20

Session B (4 Full Extended Talks)

Session F (4 Full Extended Talks)

Theme: Behaviour and Ecology - chair: Toby Ross

Theme: Threats and Conservation - chair: Sara Ryding

Amelie Corriveau: Habitat preferences of Far Eastern Curlew in Australia: implications for conservation

Daniel Weller: Stockyard Hill Wind Farm migratory shorebird surveys and monitoring program: lessons from a long-term dataset at an inland wetland site

Karen Hedstrom: Interaction of Atlantic Horseshoe Crab (Limulus polyphemus) spawning and harvest with Rufus Red Knot (Calidris canutus rufa) ecology: synthesis and knowledge gaps

Chris Purnell: Floating roosts for shorebirds – a bandaid, not a silver bullet

Louise Williams: Diet of two threatened migratory shorebirds at a southern hemisphere non-breeding site determined through DNA metabarcoding

Aisling Kelly: New South Wales – approach to preparedness and response to Avian Flu in shorebirds

Takehiko Shimizu: Revealing high-resolution behavioral patterns of migratory shorebirds using large-scale standardized field surveys

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)

Lunch & Poster Session (90 min) - TECHNICAL WORKSHOP (TBA)

13:50

Session C (4 Full Extended Talks)

Session G (4 Full Extended Talks)

Theme: Behaviour and Ecology

Theme: Migration - chair: Danny Rogers

Micha Jackson: Nesting ecology of Far Eastern Curlew tracked from Australia

Batmunkh Davaasuren: Migratory connectivity and the role of inland wetlands in supporting shorebirds in Mongolia

Mattea Taylor: Changes in habitat usage by shorebird communities in a highly urbanised and industrialised coastal estuary

Daniel Lees: Movement ecology of Exmouth Gulf Bar-tailed Godwit: auxiliary stopover locations to and from the Arctic

Christophe Tourenq: Shorebirds – response to habitat restoration using targeted removal of mangroves at Curlew Point, Hunter Estuary, NSW

Sara Ryding: There and back again: a Ruddy Turnstone's tale of migration

Zoe Gilbert: Silver Gulls and egg discrimination: a behavioural paradigm.

14:35

Afternoon coffee break (30 min)

14:50

Afternoon coffee break (30 min)

Session H (4 Full Extended Talks)

15:20

Session D (4 Full Extended Talks)

Theme: Citizen Science

Theme: Population Dynamics

Alan Stuart: Shorebird surveys in the Hunter Estuary – a community engagement success

Mike Newman: Status and trends of migratory shorebirds in Tasmania, 1973 – 2026

Tom Clarke: Think Globally - Act Locally. 50 Years of caring for shorebirds by HBOC volunteers

Newcastle Infrastructure Group

Tobias Ross: Surviving the times: 50 years of population dynamics of Australian migratory shorebirds

Julia Roetman: It Takes a Flock: strong partnerships, dedicated volunteers, and a decade of change - Celebrating 10 Years of the Adelaide International Bird Sanctuary

Callum Gapes: Quantifying spatial patterns of shorebird abundance in estuaries across Australia: the role of biophysical landscape characteristics

Jamie Van Jones: From disturbance to stewardship: community-led shorebird conservation at Roebuck Bay, Western Australia

16:25

Session I: Speed Talks (5 @ 5 min)

Presentation of Awards

Gray Gourlay: Presence of contaminants in the Hunter River Ramsar Wetlands and shorebird food chain

16:30

Jennie Beeson: Citizen science contributes to national and international site designation

16:35

Max A. Wright: Stopover sites and migratory routes of Far Eastern Curlews tracked from Australia

16:40

Micha Jackson: East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership Shorebird Working Group

16:45

Andrew McIntyre: Birds of the Hunter's estuary habitats

Conference Closure

16:50

Syfe Xi: Mapping Far Eastern Curlew movements within a localised area

16:55

End of Day 1

End of Conference