Hi again Tweeters --

As a followup to the message I just sent regarding this year's Western Field Ornithologists' conference and the new WFO website, I also want to add that WFO is still accepting abstract submissions for talks to be given at this fall's meeting. The abstract deadline has been extended to JULY 31st. Any and all people doing field ornithological research in the West (e.g., all you bird-banders out there!) are invited to submit abstracts for 12-minute talks in the scientific paper sessions of this year's conference.

For information, I have pasted in the Call for Papers below, and this document can also be downloaded (good idea to do so, for correct fonts, etc.) from the new WFO website. Just follow the links from the homepage at: www.westernfieldornithologists.org.

Thanks, and hope to see you there!

Jay Withgott
WFO and Portland, Oregon
withgott at comcast.net


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Call for Papers for the 33rd Annual Meeting of Western Field Ornithologists


Abstracts are now being accepted for presentations at the 33rd annual meeting of Western Field Ornithologists, to be held 912 October 2008 in San Mateo, California.

Oral presentations should reflect original research or summarize existing unpublished information and should be presented in a manner that will be of interest to serious amateur and professional field ornithologists. Papers presented at other conferences will be considered provided that the material has not already been published.

Talks relating to the following themes are solicited:
Status, distribution, migration, and population dynamics of birds
Systematics and biogeography of birds
Ecology, behavior, and evolution of birds
New information on avian field identification problems
Descriptive field identification
Science-based conservation and management of birds
Techniques for field study of birds, including censusing, monitoring, and other methods; and results of studies applying such techniques

Research described should apply to birds of the WFO region: western North America (from Alaska through Mexico, and the Great Plains to the Pacific coast) and the eastern Pacific Ocean. All talks should identify study objectives, describe methods and data analysis, present results, 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 WFO meetings.

An abstract of your presentation should be submitted electronically to Debbie Van Dooremolen at debbie.vandooremolen at snwa.com and Jay Withgott at withgott at comcast.net no later than 31 July 2008. All queries and submissions must be via e-mail, and all abstracts must be submitted in exactly the following format:

YOUR LAST NAME, YOUR FIRST NAME, CO-AUTHOR NAMES (Times, 10-point type, all caps). Title of your talk (Times, 10-point type, bold). Your affiliation and/or sponsoring organization(s), if any, complete mailing address (Times, 10-point type, italics), e-mail address (Arial, 9-point type).
Brief (300-word maximum) summary of the objectives, methods, results, significance, and generality of your study (Times, 10-point type).

Submissions should include a brief (60-word maximum) bio for the primary author.

For more information about the meeting, visit the WFO web site at www.westernfieldornithologists.org. We look forward to seeing you in San Mateo!