{"id":23131,"date":"1998-04-15T14:51:23","date_gmt":"1998-04-15T18:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=23131"},"modified":"2017-11-03T14:32:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T18:32:11","slug":"bird-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/1998\/04\/15\/bird-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates to host Maine Bird Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth biennial Maine Bird Conference, sponsored by Bates College and the Stanton Bird Club, will be held at Bates May 1-2 in the Olin Arts Center. Students, birdwatchers and ornithologists are invited to register for the conference by calling 207-645-4769 or 207-645-4122.<\/p>\n<p><strong><!--more-->May 1 events:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The conference begins at 1:30 p.m. with a presentation by William Barnard of Norwich University on <em>Radio Telemetry Studies of the Gray Jay in Vermont<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>At 2:30 p.m., Bill Sheehan and Riche Hoppe of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife will discuss, <em>Design and Operation of the Maine M.A.P.S. Program<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>At 3 p.m., Falk Heuttmann of the University of New Brunswick will discuss, <em>Winter Transect off Grand Manan Island<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>At 3:30 p.m., Sarah Bartos, a senior at Bates, will discuss,<em> A Comparison of American Redstart Territory Size and Habitat Selection in Two Forest Types on Kent Island: Implications for the Conservation of the Species<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>At 4 p.m., Andrew P. Weik of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife&#8217;s Endangered and Threatened Species Group will discuss<em> Conservation of Grassland Birds in Maine: Field Survey Results from 1997 and Plans for 1998<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>At 4:30 p.m., Victoria Perry of the Cornish Elementary School will discuss, <em>Birding with Children<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>During the 6 to 7:30 p.m. dinner in Commons dining hall, Bonnie Bochan, field ornithologist and botanist and co- director of the Vermont and Maine Breeding Bird Atlas projects, will discuss, <em>Birds of Jatun Sacha: Following the Breeding Birds of North America to the Tropics of Ecuador<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>May 2 events:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At 6:30 a.m., The Stanton Bird Club will sponsor a campus bird walk. Participants will meet in front of the Olin Arts Center.<\/li>\n<li>At 8:15 a.m., coffee and muffins will be served, and registration will be held in the Olin Arts Center lobby.<\/li>\n<li>At 8:45 a.m., Thor Hanson of the University of Vermont will discuss, <em>Foraging Behavior of Black-capped Chickadees, Red-breasted Nuthatches and Golden-crowned Kinglets in Heterospecific and Conspecific Flocks<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>At 9:15 a.m., Peter Vickery and W. Gregory Shriver of the Massachusetts Audubon Society&#8217;s Center for Biological Conservation will discuss,<em> A Regional Survey for Breeding Grassland Birds in the Northeastern United States<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>At 9:45 a.m., Nat Wheelright and Jennifer J. Templeton of Bowdoin College will discuss, <em>When Do Fledgling Sparrows Learn to Forage Independently?<\/em><\/li>\n<li>At 10:30 a.m., David I. King of the University of Massachusetts will discuss, <em>Avian Reproductive Success in Clearcuts and Groupcuts in the White Mountains of New Hampshire<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>At 11 a.m., Kyle Apigian of Bowdoin College will discuss <em>Foraging Efficiency and Preference in Black-capped Chickadees<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>At 11:30 a.m., Randall B. Boone and W.B. Krohn of the University of Maine, Orono, will discuss, <em>Evidence of Transition Zones in Bird Distributions<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>From noon to 12:45 p.m. lunch will be served in Chase Hall.<\/li>\n<li>12:45 to 1:30 p.m. Panel discussion on<em> Bird Conservation programs in Maine: Alternative Funding Sources at Work<\/em> will be held.<\/li>\n<li>At 1:30 p.m., Thomas Hodgmann of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife&#8217;s Bird Group will discuss, <em>Partners in Flight Program: Opportunities for Monitoring Bicknell&#8217;s Thrush and Other Mountaintop Forest Birds<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>At 2 p.m., Herb Wilson of Colby College will discuss, <em>The Effect of Supplemental Feeding on Wintering Black-capped Chickadees<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>At 2:30 p.m. Mitschka Hartley of the University of Maine, Orono, will discuss, <em>Effects of Selective Silviculture on Breeding Songbirds<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>At 3 p.m., Taryn L. 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