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South African Bird ringing Unit |
| providing bird ringing services throughout southern Africa |
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South African Bird ringing Unit |
| providing bird ringing services throughout southern Africa |
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Presentations may cover all aspects of bird ringing (banding), including descriptions of projects, results and techniques. Offered papers will be accepted for delivery as oral presentations or as posters. The conference organizers will endeavour to meet the wishes of presenters in this regard.
Oral presentations will be allocated approximately 15 minutes (depending on the number of oral presentations offered, exact length to be confirmed prior to the conference), of which three minutes will be reserved for questions. Daily keynote presentations will be solicited and will be accorded more time. Oral presentations should be illustrated to a high standard by the use of a data (multi-media) projector, not by photographic slides or by transparent overhead transparencies. Speakers are requested to take account of the multinational nature of the conference in making their presentations; all oral presentations must be in made in English. The informal nature of the meeting will make the use of Afrikaans questions/explanations acceptable.
Posters should be made to a high quality in English, be in portrait not landscape format, and should not exceed 900 mm in height and 700 mm in width. They should include the authors’ names and affiliations, and a “head and shoulders” photograph and e-mail address of the first author. Poster preparers are encouraged to make page-sized (A4 preferred) colour copies of their posters available as hand-outs at poster sessions.
For these sessions which will be held just prior to or after evening meals, delegates are invited to present their best photographic images. All delegates are requested to ensure that photographs in old transparency format are professionally scanned and presented as a Power Point presentation. Further information on how to do this can be obtained from the organizers. Please bring your presentation either on a memory stick or disc. If sufficient delegates request it, the organisers will endeavour to make available a slide projector. Kindly notify the organizers of the number of images you intend to present.
Abstracts should be submitted electronically as attached MSWord files to bernitz@iafrica.com by 15 Oct 2008. Abstracts received after this date might not appear bound in the abstracts booklet.
Abstracts should be written in English, using either American or English spelling, and the title, address and body of the text in total should not exceed half an A4 page in length. Please prepare abstracts in Times New Roman using a size-12 font, following the style below. Include full postal addresses of all co-authors and the e-mail address of the senior author only. Include the scientific names of any species mentioned in the title and in the text. Do not include illustrations (pictures, tables, graphs) or cite references in your abstract. Abstracts will not be edited before their inclusion in the abstracts booklet, so they will likely appear exactly as you have prepared them. An example abstract is given below.
Birdringing in Norway and in the Arctic regions
Stein Nilsen, Norwegian Polar Institute and Tromsø Ringing Group. Email: stein.nilsen@npolar.no
Since the first European Starling was ringed in Norway in 1914, more than 5 million birds have received a metal ring on the foot and of these a mere 100.000 have been recovered. These findings have taught us about migration, longevity and site fidelity for many species. Ringing activity in Norway is based on ringing groups formed by amateurs and professionals at established ringing stations. Only very few stations get official support and are run mostly by volunteers. In addition to this there are programs for research and monitoring on the seabird-populations (www.seapop.no). The Norwegian Polar Institute runs annual ringing and satellite tagging of seabirds in the high arctic and in the Antarctic regions. There are also ringing expeditions to the remote areas in Lapland, mostly working on breeding waders. This presentation shows some examples and findings of the birds shared by Sub-Saharan countries and Norway. Some aspects of methods used in Norway will also be discussed.