20th Meeting of the IUCN SSC: GOOSE SPECIALIST GROUP
2023-08-16 - 2023-08-18 | Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
We kindly invite you to participate in 20th meeting of the Goose Specialist Group of IUCN’s Species Survival Commission, which will be held on 16-18 August 2023 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The Organizing Committee hopes that goose specialists from all around the world will be participating in this important meeting. Also, our invited keynote speakers will be renowned goose and waterbird specialists from Asia, Europe, and North America. After the meeting, there will be a field trip to Ugii Lake, which is an important site for breeding, moulting, and migrating swan goose and bar-headed goose in west-central Mongolia. It is a well-known Ramsar site, Important Bird Area, and East Asia-Australasian Flyway Site. Our local organizing committee in Mongolia will be very happy to welcome you to the Land of Blue Sky!
We invite all participants to submit their oral and poster presentations on various topics about goose populations around the world such as impact of climate change on goose populations, movement and migration, reproduction ecology, conservation, disease, eco-physiology, and management of waterfowl. Other topics related to geese ecology, research, and threats are also welcome. Proposals for organizing special symposia, workshops and round table discussions are welcome till January 20, 2023.
The meeting will be hosted by the Wildlife science and conservation center of Mongolia with support from Ministry of Environment and Tourism of Mongolia and the IUCN SSC Goose Specialist Group.
Call for abstracts: gsg20conference@gmail.com

European Conference on Ecological Modelling: ecological modeling for transformation
2023-09-03 - 2023-09-08 | European Conference on Ecological Modelling, Leipzig, Germany
In a world where biodiversity and ecosystem services are at high risk, business as usual is no longer possible. Transformation of how societies deal with natural resources is much needed, but requires a better understanding of how ecological and social-ecological systems respond to change and human intervention. Ecological modeling thus needs to aim at predicting the response to change and to address multiple scales in time, space and organization that are relevant for management.
The 9th European Conference on Ecological Modelling, ECEM 2023, welcomes contributions that directly or indirectly support transformation. This includes strategies and models that focus on improving one or more of the following aspects: representation of response mechanisms, multi-criteria model evaluation, model-data fusion, sensitivity and robustness analyses, upscaling and transferability to new regions, link to management scenarios, social-ecological systems, transparency and reproducibility, implementation and testing of theories and concepts, and multi-modeling synthesis. In general, any contribution to advancing ecological modeling is welcome.
Call for abstracts: https://ecem23.eu/callforabstracts/

The 17th Chinese Congress of Ornithology: Chinese ornithological research in the context of globalization
2023-10-19 - 2023-10-23 | Nanjing, Nanjing, China
为促进中国鸟类学的学术交流与人才培养，助力国家生态文明建设和鸟类多样性保护，经中国动物学会鸟类学分会常务理事会讨论决定，第十七届中国鸟类学大会将于2023年10月19~23日在江苏省南京市召开。本届大会由中国动物学会鸟类学分会主办，南京师范大学和生态环境部南京环境科学研究所承办，协办单位为江苏省动物学会、南京林业大学、南京大学、江苏省林业科学研究院和Avian Research等。
摘要投稿（Call for abstract）: http://czsmeeting.bitcast.org.cn/

BOUsci23 call for abstracts!
2023-11-21 - 2023-11-22 | On Zoom and Twitter
Global flyways: a synthesis of bird migration research
#BOUsci23

Zoom abstract submission deadline: 0900 BST, 19 June 2023
Global flyways | #BOUsci23

Poster & Twitter-only abstracts also welcome (deadline 31 July 2023)
The conference programme will take place over a single 24-hour period, divided into three sessions focusing on Africa-Eurasia, Americas and Asia-Pacific flyways, respectively.
Keynotes
Miriam Liedvogel, Institute of Avian Research, Germany
Blackcap migration: adaptation in time and space
Brady Mattsson, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria
Modelling and decision analysis to inform sustainable management and conservation of migratory species
Tammy Davies, Birdlife International, UK
Seabird flyways: a framework for international collaboration
Mohamed Henriques, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Moving towards a more equitable flyway: how to tackle current barriers constraining a more regionally balanced research and conservation
Marius Somveille, University College London, UK
Energy efficiency shapes global bird migration flyways
Kristen Rueg, Colorado State University, USA
The Bird Genoscape Project: applying genomics to full annual cycle bird conservation
Emily Cohen, University of Maryland, USA
Chancing on a spectacle: co‐occurring animal migrations and interspecific interactions
Nick Bayly, SELVA, Colombia
Title TBA
David Wilcove, Princeton University, USA
Why do we know so much about migratory birds but not enough to conserve them?
Jimmy Choi, Duke Kunshan University, China
Where to draw the line? Using movement data to inform conservation decisions and conserve migratory waterbirds in East Asia
Nyambayar Batbayar, Wildlife Science and Conservation Center of Mongolia, Mongolia
Title TBA
Hiroyoshi Higuchi, University of Tokyo, Japan
Migration of land and water birds along the Asia-Pacific flyways
