Program

The current schedule is tentative and subject to change.

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Time	Monday (Oct 5)	Tuesday (Oct 6)	Wednesday (Oct 7)
2026-10-05 11:00 EDT		Announcements / Social Event	Announcements / Social Event
2026-10-05 11:15 EDT		Announcements / Social Event	Announcements / Social Event
2026-10-05 11:30 EDT	Workshops	Student Presentations	Plenary - Early Career Award Winner
2026-10-05 11:45 EDT
2026-10-05 12:00 EDT
2026-10-05 12:15 EDT			Research Showcase
2026-10-05 12:30 EDT
2026-10-05 12:45 EDT
2026-10-05 13:00 EDT
2026-10-05 13:15 EDT
2026-10-05 13:30 EDT	Break / Social Event		Break / Social Event
2026-10-05 13:45 EDT	Break / Social Event		Break / Social Event
2026-10-05 14:00 EDT	Workshops	Break / Social Event	Research Showcase
2026-10-05 14:15 EDT
2026-10-05 14:30 EDT
2026-10-05 14:45 EDT
2026-10-05 15:00 EDT		Student Presentations
2026-10-05 15:15 EDT
2026-10-05 15:30 EDT
2026-10-05 15:45 EDT
2026-10-05 16:00 EDT		Three-minute Thesis (3MT)	Break / Social Event
2026-10-05 16:15 EDT			Break / Social Event
2026-10-05 16:30 EDT	Annual General Meeting		Research Showcase
2026-10-05 16:45 EDT
2026-10-05 17:00 EDT		Networking Social
2026-10-05 17:15 EDT
2026-10-05 17:30 EDT	Social Event (?)		Awards Ceremony
2026-10-05 17:45 EDT	Social Event (?)		Awards Ceremony

Workshops

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Introduction to Quarto for Reproducibility

Do you struggle to keep track of your research analyses in R? Is future-self constantly complaining about past-self’s inability to document scripts…

Oct 5, 2026 11:30am EDT

Introduction to stable-isotope assignment in R

For migratory wildlife populations, understanding the connections between breeding, non-breeding, and stopover locations is integral to their…

Oct 5, 2026 11:30am EDT

Regulating incidental take in Canada: challenges and opportunities for scientists

Despite the federal prohibition on killing migratory birds and destroying their nests, approximately 269 million birds are killed and almost one…

Oct 5, 2026 11:30am EDT

Using WildTrax to manage and process your birdsong recordings

WildTrax is a free online platform developed to remove the barrier of entry for researchers and managers to manage and process ARU recordings at any…

Oct 5, 2026 11:30am EDT

Full day / 4-5 hours

Integrating BirdNET Analyzer & Kaleidoscope Pro

Combine BirdNET Analyzer and Kaleidoscope Pro for robust acoustic analysis, quality assurance (QA), and custom recogniser development. We will work…

Oct 5, 2026 2:00pm EDT

Carlos Abrahams

Modeling Breeding Bird Survey with bbsBayes2: status, trends, and causal modeling of drivers of trends

bbsBayes2 is an R-package that allows for easy access to the North American Breeding Bird Survey data and for fitting a selection of hierarchical…

Oct 5, 2026 2:00pm EDT

Cross Country Research Showcases

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Avian Behaviour and Conservation Lab: Timing, Movement, and Conservation of Migratory Birds

The Avian Behaviour and Conservation Lab at the University of Manitoba investigates how birds respond behaviourally to anthropogenic environmental…

Kevin Fraser (PI), Vinuri Mendis (PhD Student), Yantong Tan (PhD Student), Rebecca Asham (MSc Student), Tamara Sturch (MSc Student)

Banding in the Age of Technology

Banding and recapture of birds in the early 1900s provided the first documentation of individual bird movements in North America. In recent decades…

Marcel Gahbauer, Lesley Howes, Barbara Frei, Cyndi Smith, Pam Sinclair

CanAvian: Advancing Avian Data Integration in Canada

The Canadian Network of Avian Data (CanAvian) unites a broad community of researchers, conservation practitioners, and volunteer scientists who…

Sofia Guest¹, Catherine Jardine²

Delivering Strong Science at Birds Canada

Birds Canada delivers strong science across the country and beyond through more than a dozen regional networks of employees, volunteers, and…

Douglas C. Tozer

Drivers of Migratory Bird Population Change in Working Landscapes

Drs Ann McKellar, Nancy Mahony, Greg Mitchell, and Elizabeth Gow are Research Scientists from Environment and Climate Change Canada’s Science and…

Ann E. McKellar, Nancy A. Mahony, Greg W. Mitchell, Elizabeth A. Gow

Ecotoxicology and Conservation of Prairie Bird Communities

We are an ecotoxicology lab with a strong conservation focus. Our lab studies the effects of environmental contaminants and other non-pollution…

Christy Morrissey

Integrative Ornithology at AFAR

The Advanced Facility for Avian Research at Western University is a world class facility consisting of faculty and trainees that aim to understand…

Scott MacDougall-Shackleton, Chris Guglielmo, Carrie Branch, Yolanda Morbey, Beth MacDougall-Shackleton, Alice Boyle

Landscape Change and Avian Ecology at Thompson Rivers University

Thompson Rivers University is in the southern interior of British Columbia on the ancestral lands of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc (Kamloops main…

Matt Reudink, Nancy Flood, Stephen Joly, Kara Lefevre

Monitoring Bird Populations in Canada’s National Parks

Parks Canada Agency monitors birds in protected areas across Canada within a common framework called the Ecological Integrity Monitoring Program…

National Status and Trends of Canada’s Birds

The Canadian Wildlife Service’s national wildlife management and assessment teams conduct research supporting the population monitoring and…

Adam C. Smith, Jackson Kusack, Sarah Gutowsky, Dave Iles, Willow English, Marcel Gahbauer, Michel Gendron, Frederique Tremblay, Marie-Anne Hudson, Christian Roy, Charles Francis

Ornithological research and conservation at the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources

At the Wildlife Research and Monitoring Section of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, we coordinate three strands of avian research: the…

Glen Brown¹, Richard Feldman¹, Jeff Bowman¹, Rod Brook¹, Erica Newton¹, Chrystyn Jones (MSc Student)², Richard Huang (MSc Student)², Ingrid Tello (PhD Student)³

Partners in Flight: Collaboration from Science to Application

Partners In Flight (PIF) is a network of organizations dedicated to landbird conservation. Partners range from not-for-profit organizations to…

Seabird Ecology at the Atlantic Laboratory for Avian Research

Based at the University of New Brunswick’s Saint John Campus, the Atlantic Laboratory for Avian Research is directed by seabird biologist…

Heather Major (Professor), Amanda Giovinazzo, Maddy Talpt, Clare Taylor, Kayla Cannon, Daniel Oliker

The Science that Powers Waterfowl Conservation

The Institute for Wetland and Waterfowl Research (IWWR) at Ducks Unlimited Canada conducts interdisciplinary research that advances ornithology…

Matt Dyson, James Paterson, Vanessa Harriman, Lauren Bortolotti, Pascal Badiou, Samuel Robinson

Twenty Years of Boreal Avian Modelling

The boreal forest is a vast and remote biome covering much of northern Canada and Alaska, which provides habitat for a substantial portion of the…

Elly Knight, Steven Van Wilgenburg, Diana Stralberg, Steve Cumming, Jeff Ball, Junior Tremblay, Erin Bayne

Warblers to Waterbirds: Where and Why?

Our research group, based at McGill University’s Macdonald Campus, investigates the link between avian movement, contaminants, physiology, and life…

Tabatha Cormier (PhD Student), Nathanya Goudreau (MSc Student)