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Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference 2017

To return to the Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference website, go to http://www.midwestfw.org/ The following schedule and room names are subject to change (as of February 1, 2017). Please check back for updates.

Presenters: Presenters for technical presentations are either the primary author (the first name listed in the abstract), or are indicated with an asterisk next to their name.

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1:20pm CST

Symposia Session - S2: Midwestern Agroecology and the Conservation of Grassland Birds. Grassland Bird Conservation and Working Lands: Creating Movement Along Multiple Pathways Arbor I/II Technical Session. Greater Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido pinnatus) Boom Chorus Propagation Along a Nebraska Sandhills Wind Energy-Grassland Gradient Grand Ballroom B

1:40pm CST

Symposia Session - S2: Midwestern Agroecology and the Conservation of Grassland Birds. The Bobolink Conservation Plan: A Model for Multi-Region Conservation Planning Arbor I/II

2:00pm CST

Symposia Session - S2: Midwestern Agroecology and the Conservation of Grassland Birds. Leveraging Market Forces for Grassland Conservation: Audubon's Conservation Ranching Program Arbor I/II Technical Session. An Analysis of the Interactions Between Weather and Land Use on Gallinaceous Bird Populations Using Historical Data Grand Ballroom D Technical Session. Quantifying the Relationship Between Grasslands, Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Enrollments and Greater Prairie-Chicken Populations (Tympanuchus cupido pinnatus) in Minnesota Grand Ballroom B

2:20pm CST

Symposia Session - S2: Midwestern Agroecology and the Conservation of Grassland Birds. Utilizing Social Science to Guide Bird Conservation Action on Private Lands Arbor I/II Technical Session. Space, Place and Ring Necked Pheasant: Hot Spot Analysis of Distribution of Ring Necked Pheasant in Eastern South Dakota Grand Ballroom B

2:40pm CST

Symposia Session - S2: Midwestern Agroecology and the Conservation of Grassland Birds. Farming for the Soil, Farming for Birds Arbor I/II Technical Session. Selection and Demographic Consequences of Conservation Reserve Program Grasslands for Lesser Prairie-Chickens Grand Ballroom B

3:20pm CST

Symposia Session - S2: Midwestern Agroecology and the Conservation of Grassland Birds. Bringing Food to the Table: Growing the Culture of Locally Grown in the Midwest Arbor I/II Technical Session. Influence of Raptor Abundance on Female Lesser Prairie-Chicken Habitat Selection Grand Ballroom B

3:40pm CST

Symposia Session - S3: Ecology of the Missouri National Recreational River. Trajectories of Decline in Cottonwood Forests Along the Missouri River: Implications for Songbirds Grand Ballroom A Technical Session. Factors Influencing Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) Nest Survival in Southwest Nebraska Grand Ballroom B

4:00pm CST

Symposia Session - S2: Midwestern Agroecology and the Conservation of Grassland Birds. What Does Coffee Have to Do with Farmland Bird Conservation? Arbor I/II Symposia Session - S3: Ecology of the Missouri National Recreational River. Bird-Habitat Relationships in Floodplain Forests Along the Middle Missouri River Grand Ballroom A Technical Session. Estimating the Survival of Unmarked Young from Repeated Counts: A Case Study with Ring-necked Pheasants Grand Ballroom B

4:20pm CST

Symposia Session - S3: Ecology of the Missouri National Recreational River. Woodland Bird Use of Missouri National Recreational River Riparian and Farmstead Woodlot Habitats for Nesting and Migration Grand Ballroom A

4:40pm CST

Technical Session. Fried Chicken: Identifying Areas of Thermal Refugia for Lesser Prairie-chickens in a Changing Climate Grand Ballroom B

8:20am CST

Symposia Session - S5: Playa Wetland Ecology. How Playa Wetlands Influence Landscape Biodiversity: Small Depressions with Big Benefits Yankee Hill I/II Symposia Session - S6: Impact of Prescribed and Wild Fires on the Great Plains. Secretive Marshbird Response to Wetland Plant Management in Prairie Pothole Minnesota Arbor I/II Technical Session. True Metabolizable Energy of Submersed Aquatic Vegetation for Dabbling Ducks Grand Ballroom D

8:40am CST

Technical Session. Developing Plasma-Lipid Indices and Evaluating Triglyceride Catabolism Rates in Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis) Grand Ballroom D

9:20am CST

Symposia Session - S6: Impact of Prescribed and Wild Fires on the Great Plains. Long-term Legacy Effects of a Mixed-severity Wildfire in Eastern Ponderosa Pine Arbor I/II Technical Session. Count Bias and Disturbance of Waterfowl During Aerial Surveys Grand Ballroom D

9:40am CST

Technical Session. Modeling Transition Rates of Sandhill Cranes Using a Multi-state Model and Estimating Population Trends with N-mixture Models Grand Ballroom D

10:20am CST

Symposia Session - S5: Playa Wetland Ecology. Is Food Availability a Limited Resource for Waterfowl During Spring Migration? An Energetic Assessment of Playas in Nebraska’s Rainwater Basin Yankee Hill I/II Technical Session. Inland Fisheries Habitat Management: Lessons Learned from Wildlife Ecology and a Proposal for Change Grand Ballroom E Technical Session. Range Overlap Between Mid-Continent and Eastern Populations of Sandhill Cranes Revealed Through GPS Tracking Grand Ballroom D

10:40am CST

Technical Session. The Art of Conservation Planning for Waterfowl in the Midwest – Does It Matter How We Allocate Our Resources? Grand Ballroom D

11:00am CST

Symposia Session - S5: Playa Wetland Ecology. Modeling Nonbreeding Distributions of Wetland Birds in Response to Climate Change Yankee Hill I/II Technical Session. Wintering Ecology of Canada Geese (Branta canadensis) in the Greater Chicago Metropolitan Area Grand Ballroom D

11:20am CST

Symposia Session - S5: Playa Wetland Ecology. A Multiscale Approach to Habitat Selection: Implications for Shorebird Conservation in the Southern Great Plains Yankee Hill I/II

11:40am CST

Symposia Session - S5: Playa Wetland Ecology. Challenges for Shorebird Habitat Management in an Increasingly Dynamic Climate Yankee Hill I/II

2:20pm CST

Technical Session. Nest Success and Species Composition of Nest Predators in Dry Evergreen Forest of Northeast Thailand Grand Ballroom D

2:40pm CST

Technical Session. New Insights into the Common Predators of Grassland Wildlife Grand Ballroom D

3:40pm CST

Technical Session. Quantifying the Impact of Thermal Data Loggers on Nest Survival and Estimation of Daily Survival Rate Grand Ballroom D

4:40pm CST

Technical Session. Bird-Window Collisions: A Comparison of Migration Phenology and Collision Rates on a University Campus in Indiana Arbor I/II

6:00pm CST

Poster Display. An Attempt to Quantify the Usefulness of Thermal Imagers for Locating Grassland Bird Nests Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Brood Rearing Resource Selection of Greater Sage-Grouse on the Eastern Fringe of Their Range Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Fuel for Shorebirds: A Survey of Potential Invertebrate Prey Items Along Northern Lake Michigan’s Coastline During Nesting and Migration Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Grassland Bird Response to Grassland Restorations That Vary in Vegetative Diversity Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Home Range Size, Movements, and Survival Rates of Sora and Virginia Rails in a Managed Marsh Complex in Northwestern Ohio Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Human Observers vs Autonomous Recording Units: A Comparison of Two Avian Research Methods Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Initial Assessment of Rates of Cercariae Infections in Host Snail Populations Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Microhabitat Use of Migrating Northern Saw-whet Owls Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Monitoring Data, Decision Support Tools and the Midwest Avian Data Center Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Patch Size and Nest Density Influence Nest Survival Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Radio-tracking Fledgling Cerulean Warblers in Southern Indiana Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Seasonal Movements of Spruce Grouse (Falcipennis Canadensis) on the Huron-Manistee National Forest in Northern Michigan Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Selection Preference of Cavity Nesting Waterfowl Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Survival, Nesting, and Brood-rearing Ecology of Columbian Sharp-tailed Grouse in Northwestern Colorado Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. The Occurrence of Pitcher’s Thistle on Piping Plover Protected Beaches Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Using Canvasbacks (Aythya Valisineria) as a Bioindicator of Wetland Quality in the Upper Midwest Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Using Geolocators to Examine Seasonal Movements and Migratory Connectivity of Cerulean Warblers, a Declining Migratory Songbird That Breeds in Indiana Lancaster Ballroom

8:00am CST

Symposia Session - S9: Landscape Conservation Science and Management. Effect of Supplement Food on Breeding Biology of Eastren Blue Bird (Sialia sialis) in South Florida, USA Grand Ballroom E Technical Session. Trap and Translocation of Red-tailed Hawks at O'Hare International Airport: Why May Some Birds Return? Hawthorne

8:20am CST

Technical Session. Influence of Habitat and Landscape on the Occupancy of Shrubland Birds Grand Ballroom B Technical Session. Prey Selection of Northern Goshawks in the Lewis and Clark National Forest, Montana Hawthorne

8:40am CST

Technical Session. Bird Occupancy on Cover Crop Fields During Their Spring Migration in the Midwest Corn Belt Region Grand Ballroom B

9:00am CST

Technical Session. Obligate Grassland Bird Response to Woody Plant Configurations Grand Ballroom B

9:20am CST

Technical Session. Grassland Bird Response to Season of Burn and Grazing Intensity Grand Ballroom B

9:40am CST

Technical Session. Estimating the Effect of Perennial Vegetation in an Agricultural Landscape on Grassland Birds Grand Ballroom B

10:20am CST

Technical Session. Influence of Vegetation Cover on Avian Productivity and Community Ecology in Restored Grasslands of the Prairie Pothole Region Grand Ballroom B

10:40am CST

Technical Session. Grassland Bird Productivity in Warm Season Grass Fields in Southwest Wisconsin Grand Ballroom B

11:00am CST

Technical Session. Effects of Habitat Heterogeneity on Survival and Movements of Fledgling Dickcissels Grand Ballroom B

11:20am CST

Technical Session. Taking Fledglings into Consideration When Assessing Management Impacts on Grassland Bird Productivity Grand Ballroom B