PROGRAMME.

Wednesday 3rd

08:45 – 09:20 Registration – Ink Box Theatrette, Oamaru Opera House

09:20 Welcome

09:30 – 09:40 Opening remarks

Thomas Mattern

09:40 – 10:00 Coastal Otago Wildlife Response Data

Richard Seed

10:00 – 10:20 Banding Office discussion: Best Practice, Certification and Data Submission

Michelle Bradshaw

10:20 – 11:00 Morning tea

11:00 – 11:25 Bad New News from the Trail Cameras

Graeme Loh & Tia Scott

11:25 – 11:45 New penguin fossil discoveries from Aotearoa New Zealand

Alan Tennyson

11:45 – 12:05 Moulting patterns and diet of brown skua

Hendrik Schultz

12:05 – 12:25 Foraging ecology of Tawaki in Doubtful Sound

Blake Hornblow

12:25 – 13:25 Lunch

13:25 – 13:45 Predicting avian malaria conditions to aid in penguin conservation efforts in New Zealand

Chris Niebuhr

13:45 – 14:05 Finding the causative agents of infectious diseases affecting hoiho (yellow-eyed penguins) in New Zealand

Janelle Wierenga

14:05 – 14:25 Yellow-eyed Penguin/Hoiho Hand-rearing at Dunedin Wildlife Hospital

Emma Chen

14:25 – 14:45 Sizable Waddle, a critical reflection of rehabbing Hoiho

Jason Van Zanten

14:45 – 15:25 Afternoon Tea

15:25 – 15:45 Risks, resources, and refugia: Spatial overlap between yellow-eyed penguin foraging distribution and prey, commercial fisheries, and marine protected area

Rachel Hickcox

15:45 – 16:05 Post-guard and pre-moult tracking of hoiho on Motu Ihupuku

Mel Young

16:05 – 16:25 Are Pinging Penguins Promising? Acoustic telemetry of African Penguins

Michelle Bradshaw

16:25 – 16:45 Penguins as vectors for contaminant transport in pristine Antarctic environments

Megan Reaves

17:00 – 18:30 Field trip to Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony

18:30 – onwards Dinner: Loan and Merc Building

Thursday 4th -

09:00 – 09:20 Humboldt penguins in Chile

Ursula Ellenberg

09:20 – 09:40 Voyage to the sub-Antarctic islands: Heritage Expeditions True Young Explorer Scholarship

Henry Elsom

09:40 – 10:00 Indications of continued population decline in erect-crested penguin numbers at the Antipodes

Dave Houston

10:00 – 10:20 A rock and a hard place – Are the subantarctic Bounty Islands becoming the new species stronghold for Erect-crested penguins?

Thomas Mattern

10:20 – 11:00 Morning tea

11:00 – 11:20 Protecting port penguins: management strategies for nesting kororā during Port Marlborough development

Shannon Ritter

11:20 – 11:40 Microplastics in Little Penguin gastrointestinal tract from two Victorian colonies

Tia Scott

11:40 – 12:00 The growth and successes of Places for Penguins Wellington branch

Places for Penguins team

12:00 – 12:20 Looking back on a disastrous breeding season in Canterbury

Thomas Stracke

12:20 – 13:20 Lunch

13:20 – 13:40 Kororā Conservation in the Bay of Plenty

Melissa McLuskie

13:40 – 14:00 Analyses of moult in kororā from automatic weigh platforms

Philippa Agnew

14:00 – 14:20 By land and sea: On the quest for kororā conservation at the Pōhatu colony