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Hi everyone.

I am aware that there is an IGM in April in Germany but do not have any further news/information - how to book a place, offer talks, where exactly the venue is, how to book accommodation etc.

Can anyone please help with information or a web link for the meeting. I was expecting something to appear on ORG or an email to be sent to the IGM list, nothing so far

Many thanks for any help

Chris

Hi Chris,

information has been minimal so far indeed, especially for anyone who is not on Facebook (like yourself).
I think the best thing to do is to write an email to Ronald Klein.

All I know is that the meeting will be held at the Heide Spa Hotel in Bad Düben (http://www.heidespa.de/) from 14-17 April.
Participants so far include Lars Jonsson, Andreas Buchheim, Hans Larsson, Risto Juvaste, many of the Dutch boys, and others.

Hi. Splendid, many thanks for this help Peter....

Chris

Interested people can send my e-mails: klein_hro@web.de
We also will visit the famous hybrid-colonies in East-Germany.

Preliminary timetable:

Modifications possible!

Thursday, 14.4.
The meeting-bureau is open from 10.00
14.00: Introduction and organization
14.30 Ulrich Köppen (GER): CR (not only of gulls) yields mass data - how to deal best with it on continent scale?
15.00 Hendrik Trapp & Heiko Michaelis (GER): Breeding of large gulls in Brandenburg and Saxony
15.30 Reinhard Möckel (GER): Gräbendorfer See – a coal mining area became a bird sanctuary
16.00 break
16.30 Peter Rock (ENG): Urban Gulls: what’s all the fuss about?
17.00 Ingo Rösler (GER): A mixed colony of Yellow-legged gulls and Lesser black-backed gulls in the city of
Frankfurt/Main
18.00 break and dinner
20.00 Patrick Franke (GER): Introduction to gull sound recording and analysis – theory and practise part 1

Friday, 15.4.
9.00 – 18.00 field work
We visit the colonies Mühlberg/Elbe and Sedlitzer See, good possibilities for ring-ID and photos and pass the
colony Gräbendorfer See from distance.
20.00 Patrick Franke (GER): Introduction to gull sound recording and analysis – theory and practise part 2

Saturday, 16.4.
9.00 Luka Jurinovic (CRO): "Gulls as carriers of some viral and bacterial zoonoses"
9.30 Ronald Klein (GER): Migration pattern of Caspian gulls and hybrids („Lausitz-gulls“) in comparison with
Herring gulls from the German Baltic
10.00 Patrick Franke (GER): An integrative taxonomic approach to Mongolian Gull – short desciption of a
multisource-collecting and gull ringing trip to Central Mongolia
10.30 break
11.00 Risto Juvaste (FIN): The crazy population trends of Herring gulls and Lesser black-backed gulls in Europe
11.30 Chris Gibbins (SCO): ID of „heinei“ - Common gulls
12.00 -13.30 break and dinner
13.30 – 18.00 open for additional presentations and slide-shows, contact me please
18.00 break and dinner
20.00 live-music by the folk-duo „Violet moon“

Sunday, 17.4.
departure, if interested, Patrick Franke can show us wryneck and different species of woodpeckers around Bad
Düben