MTI Bird and Fish Tracking Conference Proceedings

9:15
Keynote Address
Satellite tracking of raptors – how PTTs changed our lives
Bernd-U. Meyburg and Christiane Meyburg

9:45
Life after catch: Application of pop-up satellite archival tags to follow the fate of Atlantic billfishes released from commercial and recreational fisheries
John E. Graves, David W. Kerstetter and Andrij Z. Horodysky

10:10
Implantation of transmitters and data loggers in the coeloms of birds
Daniel M. Mulcahy

10:55
Survivorship studies and comparisons of satellite and VHF telemetry results for two rare raptors, Swallow-tailed Kite (Elanoides fortificatus) and Snail Kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis)
Kenneth D. Meyer and Gina M. Zimmerman

11:20
Diel movements of a scalloped hammerhead shark (Sphyrna lewini) in the northern Gulf of Mexico based on high-rate archival pop-up tag data
James S. Franks, Eric R. Hoffmayer and William B. Driggers III

11:45
Satellite telemetry tracking of three species of seaducks along the Atlantic flyway (2001-09)
Matthew C. Perry, Glenn H. Olsen, Alicia M. Berlin and Peter C. Osenton

12:10
Scolopax rusticola without frontiers: New technology
Joseba Felix Tobar-Arbulu

2:00
Using satellite telemetry for human health: Tracking potential wild waterfowl vectors of H5N1 avian influenza
Glenn H. Olsen, S.H. Newman, J.Y. Takekawa, D.J. Prosser, S.R. Heath and D.C. Douglas

2:25
Annual movements of Barrows Goldeneye in the Pacific Northwest
Sean Boyd

2:50
The use of satellite transmitters in eagle research in Norway
Torgeir Nygård

3:35
Moulting, staging and wintering locations of common eiders breeding in the Gyrfalcon Archipelago, Ungava Bay
Jean-Pierre L. Savard, Louis Lesage, Scott Gilliland, Grant Gilchrist and Jean-François Giroux

4:00
Implantable versus neckband PTTs in swans: What is better?
John Whissel and Eugene Potapov

4:25
The effects of abdominally implanted transmitters on foraging energetics and diving performance of lesser scaup, white-winged scoters, long-tailed ducks, and surf scoters
Alicia M. Berlin, Matthew C. Perry, Peter C. Osenton and Glenn H. Olsen

4:50
100 PTTs later . . . Lessons learned, eye-opening results, and more questions about the migration ecology of large shorebirds
Lee Tibbitts, Robert Gill, David Douglas, Daniel Mulcahy, Nils Warnock and Phil Battley

9:05
Importance of satellite tracking in houbara bustard conservation program in Asia
Olivier Combreau, Jacky Judas and Mark Lawrence

9:30
Captive seaducks and lesser scaup used to determine effects of surgically implanted transmitters with percutaneous antennas on behavior and reproduction
Matthew C. Perry, Glenn H. Olsen, Alicia M. Wells-Berlin and Peter C. Osenton

9:55
First results from juvenile Atlantic bluefin tuna tracked with X-Tags
Benjamin Galuardi, Jessica Knapp, John M. Logan and Molly Lutcavage

10:40
Identification of Bald Eagle communal roosts using satellite telemetry
Elizabeth K. Mojica and Bryan D. Watts

11:05
Migratory patterns and environmental preferences of the blue shark (Prionace glauca) as determined by X-Tags and archival pop-up tags
Lucy A. Howey, Bradley M. Wetherbee, Lance K.B. Jordan and Mahmood S. Shivji

11:30
The Swedish raptor migration group - a presentation
Roine Strandberg, R.H.G. Klaassen, M. Hake, P. Olofsson and T. Alerstam

11:55
Satellite tracking of saker falcons (Falco cherrug) in the Carpathian Basin and PTT performance
Mátyás Prommer and J. Bagyura

1:50
Ranging behaviour of juvenile Bearded Vulture (Gypaetus barbatus meridionalis) in Southern Africa: A pilot study
Sonja Krüger

2:15
Mail to map system on the “Cloud”: From PTT to dynamic maps and archiving of Argos data at no cost
Eugene Potapov

2:40
Intercontinental migration of a Hobby Falcon (Falco subbuteo) tracked by means of a 5g satellite transmitter
Bernd-U. Meyburg, P.W. Howey, C. Meyburg and K.D. Fiuczynski

 

 

 

 

9:05
The Argos System: The mission continues
Debbie Stakem

9:30
Satellite bio-telemetry - the state of the art and beyond
Paul Howey

10:50
Getting the most from your PTT
Cathy Bykowsky

11:15
Tools for handling data
Ted Rollins

11:40
From deployment to data report: a closer look at the life cycle of a pop-up tag
Ricardo Tolentino

12:05
Results, challenges and lessons learnt from pop-up satellite tagging bull sharks in the Atlantic and South Pacific
Juerg M. Brunnschweiler, Nuno Queiroz and David W. Sims

 

Short presentation
A ten year study of long range movements of Cory’s Shearwaters (Calonectris diomedea borealis), using PTTs
Francis Zino, Andreas Schmidt, Uli Querner and Manuel Biscoito

1:50
Using the X-Tag to track the marine spawning migration of European eels
Kim Aarestrup, Finn Økland, Michael M. Hansen, David Righton

2:15
Successful tracking of a Marbled Murrelet with a miniaturized, solar-powered satellite PTT
John F. Piatt, Martin G. Raphael, David Douglas and Thomas D. Bloxton, Jr.

2:40
Environmental preferences of the tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) tracked with pop-up archival satellite transmitters in the US Virgin Islands
Brad Wetherbee, Mahmood Shivji and Richard Nemeth

3:25
Black Kite (Milvus migrans) tracked by using a 22g GPS satellite transmitter
Bernd-U. Meyburg and C. Meyburg

3:50
Movements and habitat preferences of dusky (Carcharhinus obscurus) and silky (Carcharhinus falciformis) sharks in the northern Gulf of Mexico: Preliminary results
Eric R. Hoffmayer, James S. Franks, William B. Driggers III and Mark A. Grace

4:15
Migration of adult and juvenile Ospreys (Pandion haliaetus) in eastern North America as determined by satellite telemetry
Richard O. Bierregaard, Jr. and M.S. Martell

4:40
Round Table Discussion
Moderated by Daniel M. Mulcahy