Business Meeting - Wilson Ornithological Society

Wilson Ornithological Society Proceedings, 2004 page 14 of 19
Kenneth Roblee, Bureau of Wildlife, Buffalo, NY, Ward Stone, Wildlife Pathology Unit,
Delmar, NY, and David Adams, Nongame and Habitat Unit, Albany, NY, “Type E
botulism caused waterbird mortality in the New York waters of Lake Erie and Lake
Ontario, 2000-2003.”
Rebecca J. Safran, Cornell University., Ithaca, NY, Kevin J. McGraw, University of California-
Davis, Matthew R. Evans, University of Exeter in Cornwall, and Colby Rice Neuman,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, “Geographic differences in the function of sexual
ornaments: plumage coloration, not tail-streamers, is a sexually selected trait in North
American Barn Swallows.”
César Sánchez, Branko Hilje, Rodolfo Jaffé and Gilbert Barrantes, Universidad de Costa Rica,
San José, Costa Rica, “Vocal variation in the Green Violet-ear, a Neotropical
hummingbird.”
Vinodkumar Saranathan and Edward H. Burtt, Jr., Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH,
“Effect of solar ultra-violet radiation on feather-degrading bacteria.”
Amy Schneider and Edward H. Burtt, Jr., Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH, and Jeroen
Reneerkens, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Hoorn, The Netherlands,
“Does a shift in preen wax composition have antibacterial implications for breeding
sandpipers?”
Edwin Scholes, III, Yale University, New Haven, CT, “Courtship repertoire of Carola’s Parotia
in Papua New Guinea: a video-based ethological analysis.”
Michael A. Shepard, Starksboro, VT, “Situation specific call use in Leach’s Storm Petrel
(Oceanodroma leucorhoa).”
W. Gregory Shriver and James P. Gibbs, State University of New York, Syracuse, NY, Thomas
P. Hodgman, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, Bangor, ME, and Peter
D. Vickery, The Center for Ecological Conservation, Richmond, ME, “Breeding ecology
of sympatric Sharp-tailed Sparrows.”
Paul Spitzer, Cooperative Oxford Lab, Oxford, MD, “Local impact of Double-crested Cormorant
invasion on breeding Ospreys: possible ‘soft parasitism’ on feeding Ospreys in the
waters around Gardiners Island, NY.”
Scott H. Stoleson, U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Irvine, PA, “Habitat use by Cerulean Warblers in an
oak-northern hardwoods transition zone: implications for management.”
Megan M. Szymanski, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, “High lineage diversity
and host sharing of malarial parasites in a local avian assemblage.”
Jeffrey V. Wells, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, “Demographic and aerographic
fragmentation in distributions of North American birds.”
Kevin Wentworth and Dr. Margaret Brittingham, Pennsylvania State University, University
Park, PA, “Effects of field characteristics on avian use and productivity in Conservation
Reserve Enhancement Program fields and a comparison with hayfields.”
David W. Winkler, Peter H. Wrege, Paulo E. Llambías, and Valentina Ferretti, Cornell
University, Ithaca, NY, “Breeding dispersal in the Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor).”
POSTERS
David Adams, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Albany, NY; Kevin
Kenow and Robert Kratt, United States Geological Service, La Crosse, WI; David Evers,
BioDiversity Research Institute, Gorham, ME; Nina Schoch, Adirondack Cooperative