About this Event
2024 Minnesota Ornithologists' Union Paper Session
Join us for the 2024 Minnesota Ornithologists' Union Paper Session! This annual event will take place in the North Star Ballroom of the St. Paul Student Center, located at 2017 Buford Avenue in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
In addition to providing the opportunity to learn more about Minnesota's birds, the Paper Session is a great event for networking with other birders and ornithologists. Between presentations, be sure to check out the bird book sale across from the ballroom (all proceeds go to the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union in support of its mission) and visit the vendors and poster presenters.
Agenda:
8:00 - 9:00 AM ..... REGISTRATION AND SOCIAL HOUR
9:00 - 9:15 AM ..... Welcome
Clinton Dexter-Nienhaus, MEEd, Head Naturalist, Friends of Sax-Zim Bog
9:15 - 10:00 AM ..... Birds of the State: State of the Birds
Todd Arnold, Professor, University of Minnesota, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology
10:00 - 10:30 AM ..... A Current Assessment of Trumpeter Swan Migration Patterns in the Midwest
David Wolfson, PhD Student, Wildlife Ecology and Management, University of Minnesota
10:30 - 10:45 AM ..... BREAK
10:45 - 11:15 AM ..... Seventeen Years of Grassland Bird Monitoring in Western Minnesota
Daren Carlson, State Wildlife Action Plan Monitoring Coordinator, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
11:15 - 11:45 AM ..... Using Acoustic Monitoring to Document American Barn Owl (Tyto furcata) Range Expansion in Southeastern Minnesota and Southwestern Wisconsin
Karla Bloem, Executive Director, International Owl Center
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM ..... LUNCH
12:45 - 1:15 PM ..... MOU BUSINESS MEETING AND AWARDS
1:15 - 1:45 PM ..... The Boreal Chickadee
Kara Snow, Avian Ecology Lab, Natural Resources Research Institution
1:45 - 2:15 PM ..... Minnesota National Forest Breeding Bird Monitoring Program: 30 years of Population Monitoring in the Chippewa and Superior National Forests
Josh Bednar, Avian Ecology Lab, Natural Resources Research Institute, University of Minnesota-Duluth
2:15 - 2:30 PM ..... BREAK
2:30 - 3:00 PM ..... Using Banding Data to Characterize Crèching Presence and Composition for Passerines in the Midwest
Ava Craven and Jessica Schmidt, Undergraduate Students, St. Olaf College
3:00 - 3:30 PM ..... Hoary Redpoll, We Hardly Knew Ye: Additions, Deletions, and Status Changes to Minnesota’s Official State Checklist
Bob Dunlap, MOU Records Committee
3:30 PM .... Closing Remarks
Table Exhibitors:
- Audubon Upper Mississippi River, Contact: Dale Gentry ([email protected])
- Earl Orf Photography, Contact: Earl Orf ([email protected])
- Carrol Henderson, Contact: Carrol Henderson ([email protected])
- Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory, Contact: Margie Menzies ([email protected])
- MOU Books Sales, Contact: Alex Sundvall ([email protected])
- , Contact: Monica Bryand ([email protected])
Refreshments provided by Saint Paul Bird Alliance
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
St. Paul Student Center, Buford Avenue, Saint Paul, MN, USA, United States
USD 15.00 to USD 19.98
