DESTINATION SWANWICK IN DERBYSHIRE FOR THIS WEEKEND'S ANNUAL BTO BIRDING CONFERENCE

Blue tit - what have learned about its moulting pattern?

THE countdown is ticking  on an important event in the British birding calendar - the annual BTO conference from Friday to Saturday (6–8 December).

To be held at its usual venue - the Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, Derbyshire - the range of speakers and subjects is as impressive as ever.

Below is the programme

December 6
16:00 Registration opens
18:00 - 19:00 Swarovski drinks reception in the Garden Lounge
19:00 - 20:30 Dinner
20:30 - Martin Collinson: Ringing and Migration 

December 7
08:15 Breakfast
09:25 Welcome by Andy Clements (BTO chief executive)
09:30 Jamie Dunning: The Twite network - monitoring Twite in Britain and Ireland
10:00 David Norman: Partial moult in Blue Tits - what have we learned?
10:30 Tara Okon: Growing a nest recording group: a personal view
11:00 Tea/coffee
11:00 - 11.45 Bob Furness: What have the ringers ever done for us? How amateurs make British ornithology great
13:00 Lunch
14:15 Dawn Balmer: Project Owl: What did we learn   about Tawny Owls?
14:45 Teresa Frost: Alerts, estimates and collecting - updates from the Wetland Bird Survey
15:15 Daria Dadam: Investigating the decline   of the House Sparrow in London
15:45 Tea/coffee
14:15 Ringers’ meeting
15:45 Tea/coffee
16:30 Ben Dolan: Thermal birding
17:00 Nick Whitehouse: Project Yellow-browed – introducing Motus tracking technology to Britain
17:30 Awards: BTO Tucker and Jubilee Medals; British Birds Charitable Trust grants
18:00 BTO AGM In the Derbyshire Hall. All welcome to attend but only BTO members are eligible to vote
19:30 Dinner
21:00 Team quiz

December 8
08:00  Christian service in the chapel
08:15 Breakfast
09:30 Katharine Bowgen Gylfinir: Putting Welsh curlew in perspective through tracking
10:00 Richard Broughton: How to survey Marsh Tits, a woodland specialist in decline
10:30 Malcolm Burgess Utilising citizen science data in climatic change research
11:00 Tea/coffee
11:00-11.45 Jenny Donelan: First come best served? Using colour-ringing to understand how arrival dates influence    breeding phenology
12:15 Chantal Macleod-Nolan: 'Terning' the Tide – The LIFE Little Tern Recovery Project
12:45 Raffle
13:00 Summing up
13:10 Lunch and close of conference

Also part of what should be a great weekend: BTO shop, art exhibition, displays and book sales

More details from: 
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