WFO annual meeting Annoucement

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Here's a message from Ted Floyd about the up-coming WFO meeting in Santa Maria California this fall:


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Hello, Utah Birders.  Here's the Call for Papers for this year's 
Western
Field Ornithologists (WFO) meeting.  Hope there will be some good
representation from Utah this year!  All best, --Ted

Call for Papers and Poster Presentations
Western Field Ornithologists - 30th Annual Meeting

28 September - 1 October 2005
Santa Maria, California

Abstracts are now being accepted for presentations and
posters at the 30th annual meeting of Western Field
Ornithologists, to be held 28 September - 1 October 2005
in Santa Maria, California. Papers and posters presented
at other conferences will be considered, provided that the
material has not already been published in full manuscript
form. Authors are responsible for ensuring that their text
is accurate and professionally concise.

Oral and poster presentations should reflect original
research or summarize existing unpublished information,
and should be presented in a manner that will be of
interest to serious amateur field ornithologists. Talks
and posters relating to the following special theme of the
2005 meeting are especially solicited:

* Status, distribution, conservation, and management of
  birds in human-dominated landscapes. Human-dominated
  landscapes in coastal California will be the primary
  focus, but we seek contributions on the avifauna of
  human-dominated landscapes anywhere in the West.

Talks and posters relating to the following, more general,
themes are also solicited:

* Systematics and biogeography of the birds of the Pacific
  Coast region, the North American interior (including
  Mexico), and the interface between the two.

* New information on field identification problems relevant
  to the birds of western North America and the eastern
  Pacific Ocean.

* Techniques for field study of birds, including censusing,
  monitoring, and other methods; results of studies
  applying such techniques.

All talks and posters should do the following: identify
study objectives; describe study methods and data analysis;
discuss the significance of the research; and propose
future research directions.

We expect to allot 15 minutes per oral presentation,
including 3 minutes for questions and discussion. 
Dialogue between presenters and audience is a hallmark 
of all WFO meetings.

Posters should fit within a width of six feet. Graphic
materials, tables, and illustrations should be as simple
as possible. Sequence the viewing of the poster with
arrows, letters, or numbers so as to be self-explanatory.
Text, graphics, and illustrations should be readable from
a distance of at least four feet. Poster presenters are
expected to be available for extensive discussion with
meeting participants.

An abstract of your presentation or poster should be
submitted electronically to Ted Floyd <tedfloyd@aba.org>.
Please note that all queries and submissions must be via
e-mail. All abstracts must be received by 15 May 2005 and
should be submitted in exactly the following format:

* YOUR LAST NAME, YOUR FIRST NAME. Your affiliation (if
  any), complete mailing address, e-mail address. Title of
  your talk. Brief (300-word maximum) summary of the
  objectives, methods, results, significance, and
  generality of your study.

For more information about the meeting, visit the WFO web
site at <www.wfo-cbrc.org>.

We look forward to seeing you in Santa Maria!

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Ted Floyd

Editor,
Birding



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