8:00 AM: Melles, Stephanie^*,1, Fortin, Marie-Josée¹, Csillag, Ferko¹, Badzinski, Debbie², ¹ University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada² Bird Studies Canada, Port Rowan, ON, Differentiate between habitat and social drivers of nest aggregations using point pattern analysis.

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8:20 AM: Tirpak, John^*,1, Giuliano, William², Lewis, James¹, ¹ Louis Calder Center - Biological Field Station, Armonk, NY, USA² University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA, Sex and age status affects estimates of Ruffed grouse habitat suitability in the Central and Southern Appalachians.

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8:40 AM: Rebstock, Ginger^*,1, Boersma, P. Dee¹, ¹ University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, Spatial scales of foraging in breeding Magellanic penguins.

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9:00 AM: Hernandez, Daniel^*,1, Drake, David¹, ¹ Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Foraging dynamics of migratory waders relative to prey density.

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9:20 AM: Bolger, Douglas^*,1, Hellmuth, Sara¹, Mahar, Emily¹, Walters, Eric¹, Morrison, Scott², ¹ Environmental Studies Program, Hanover, NH, USA² The Nature Conservancy, San Diego, CA, USA, Food availability and thermal constraints on nestling provisioning rates in birds.

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9:50 AM: Duncan-Rastogi, Anne^*,1, Zanette, Liana¹, Clinchy, Michael¹, ¹ University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, How does food availability affect vulnerability to nest predation?

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10:10 AM: Zanette, Liana¹, Clinchy, Michael^*,1, Smith, James², ¹ University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada² University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, Food and predator effects on passerine egg production: results from a bi-factorial experiment.

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10:30 AM: Boyle, Alice^*,1, ¹ University of Arizona, Tucson, Patterns of nest predation risk along a tropical altitudinal gradient.

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10:50 AM: Etterson, Matthew^*,1, Greenberg, Russ², ¹ U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Duluth, MN, USA² Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, Washington, DC, USA, Analyzing covariates in Markov chain nest-survival models.

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11:10 AM: Piha, Markus^*,1, Andreas, Lindén², Pakkala, Timo¹, Tiainen, Juha³, ¹ Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki, Finland² Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Helsinki, Finland³ Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute, Helsinki, Finland, Linking weather conditions and human induced habitat changes to population dynamics of a farmland passerine bird.

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