2004 Meeting of the American Oystercatcher Working Group
| The fourth annual meeting of the Atlantic Coast American Oystercatcher Working group was hosted by Brad Winn of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and Dr. Terry Norton of St. Catherine's Island-Wildlife Conservation Society from November 3-5 2004. The meeting was held on St. Catherine's Island, GA, giving all participants a great opportunity to learn about the history of the island and the Wildlife Survival Center, and have some close encounters of the Lemur kind! |
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Lemurs! and Lemur watching...

The Working Group hard at work...
Presentations
Dr. Terry Norton DVM, WCS, St Catherine's Island Wildlife Survival Center
The American Oystercatcher (Haematopus palliatus): a bioindicator species for assessing ecosystem health along the Georgia and South Carolina coasts and barrier islands
John Sabine, University of Georgia, Warnell School of Forest Resources
Effects of Human Disturbance and Predation on American Oystercatchers During the Breeding Season, Cumberland Island, Georgia
Ruth Boettcher, VA Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries
Finding banded American Oystercatchers via PRISM surveys during the nonbreeding season in Virginia
Susan Cameron and David Allen, NC Wildlife Resources Commission
American Oystercatcher Breeding Distribution and Population Estimate in North Carolina
Alexandra Wilke, College of William and Mary, Center for Conservation Biology
Pam Denmon, Fisherman Island National Wildlife Refuge
2004 American Oystercatcher productivity
Shiloh Schulte and Ted Simons, Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, North Carolina State University
American Oystercatcher Research and Monitoring - 2004 Status Report for North Carolina's Outer Banks and Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge, Mass
Banders without Borders: Implementing a large-scale cooperative mark-resight study
Banding Handout
Rich Paul, Florida Coastal Islands Sactuaries. Audubon of Florida
American Oystercatchers in Tampa Bay - an Overview
Stephen Brown, Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences
Felicia Sanders, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
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