SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM LISTING FOR THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIRST STATED MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION

Population size, winter distribution, and habitat associations of the eastern subspecies of American Oystercatcher. STEPHEN BROWN, SHILOH SCHULTE, BRIAN HARRINGTON, Manomet Center for Comer. Sci., Manomet, MA, BRAD WINN, Georgia Dept. Nat. Res., Brunswick GA, MARSHALL HOWE, Patuxent Wildl. Res. Center, Laurel, MD, and JONATHAN BART, USGS Forest & Rangeland Ecol. Sci. Center, Boise, ID.

Distribution and reproductive success of early-successional shrubland birds nesting in powerline rights-of-way in western Massachusetts. DAVID I. KING, U.S. For. Serv. Northeast. Res. Sta., Univ. Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, JEFFREY M. COLLINS and WAYNE R. PETERSEN. Massachusetts Audubon Soc., Lincoln, MA.

The Red-cockaded Woodpecker and sustainable forestry. FRANCES C. JAMES, Dept. Biol. Sci., Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL.

The application of distance sampling techniques on a range of New Zealand forest bird species. ROSEMARY K. BARRACLOUGH, School Geog. & Environ. Sci., Univ. Auckland, New Zealand.

Session 2A. Behavior. Geoffrey E. Hill, chair.

Why are drab male House Finches socially dominant to bright males? GEOFFREY E. HILL, Dept. Biol. Sci., Auburn Univ., AL; KEVIN J. McGRAW, Dept. Neurobiol. & Bahav., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY; ANDREW M. STOEHR, Dept. Biol., Univ. California-Riverside, Riverside, CA; and RENEE A. DUCKWORTH, Biol. Dept., Duke Univ., Durham, NC.

* American Robins, European Starlings, and novel foods: a comparison between a native and invasive bird. NANCY LaFLEUR and MARGARET RUBEGA, Dept. Ecol. & Evol. Biol, Univ. Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

* An experimental study of mate guarding and paternity in House Wrens. ALICE M. Z. BRYLAWSKI, Dept. Biol. Sci., Univ. Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WlI

* Do overwintering Semipalmated Plovers select habitats with the most invertebrates? MELISSA A. ROSE, Watershed Ecosyx. Prog., Trent Univ., Peterbrough, ON.

* Flocking and vigilant behavior in Western Sandpipers during the non-breeding season. GUIELERMO FERNÁNDEZ and DAVID B. LANK, Centre Wildl. Ecol., Simon Fraser Univ., Burnaby, BC.

* Tail coloration indicates male quality in White-winged Fairy-Wrens. MELANIE K. RATHBURN and ROBERT MONTGOMERIE, Dept Biol., Queen's Univ., Kingston, ON.

* Consequences of single versus multiple parasitism for nestlings of the brood parasitic Pin-tailed Whydah. JUSTIN G. SCHUETZ, Ecol. & Evol. Biol, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY.

* Are sympatric, conspecific indigobirds reproductively isolated by host association: a test using multiple marker paternity analysis. CHRISTOPHER N. BALAKRISHNAN, KRISTINA M. SEFC and MICHAEL D. SORENSON, Dept. Biol., Boston Univ., Boston, MA.

Session 2B. Conservation. Ronald L. Mumme, chair.

Response of Western Scrub-Jay populations to increasing human density. DANIEL A. LEVITIS, Mus. Vert. Zool., Univ. California, Berkeley, CA.

Dispersal patterns among and within perceptual neighborhoods of Florida Scrub-Jays in a fragmented landscape. REED BOWMAN, Archbold Biol. Sta., Lake Placid, FL.

* Effects of an intense winter fire on Florida Scrub-Jay habitat use. CHRISTOPHER D. VALLIGNY, ROBERT L. CURRY, Dept. Biol., Villanova Univ., Villanova, PA, and GLEN E. WOOLFENDEN, Archbold Biol. Sta., Lake Placid, FL.