PROCEEDINGS OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-THIRD STATED MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION

Auk, The, Apr 2007 by Lein, M Ross

Mycoplasmal conjunctivitis in House Finches: factors influencing disease expression. ANDRE A. DHONDT, DANA M. HAWLEY, WESLEY M. HOCHACHKA, Lab. Ornithol, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, KEILA V. SYDENSTRICKER, Coll. Vet. Med., Cornell Univ., and ALEXANDER V. BADYAEV, Univ. Arizona. Tucson, AZ.

Parasites, mortality and sexual selection. MARLENE ZUK, Dept. Biol., Univ. California Riverside, Riverside, CA. ANDRAS LIKER, Dept. Zool., Univ. Veszprem, Hungary, and ROBIN TINGHITELLA, Dept. Biol, Univ. California, Riverside.

Adaptive significance of avian beak morphology for ectoparasite control. DALE H. CLAYTON, Dept. Biol., Univ. Utah, Salt Lake City UT.

Selection and adaptations in bird-ectoparasite interactions. HEINZ RICHNER, Univ. Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

Session 1A. Breeding biology. Karl L. Kosciuch, chair.

* High nest desertion frequencies by Bell's Vireo in Kansas: population-specific adaptation or a generalized response? KARL L. KOSCIUCH and BRETT K. SANDERCOCK, Div. Biol., Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS.

* Isotopic evidence of income breeding in two arctic nesting birds. SHONA L. LAWSON, Dept. Biol., Univ. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, and RAY T. ALISAUSKAS, Canadian Wildl. Serv., Saskatoon, SK and Dept. Biol., Univ. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK.

* What is a nest? Influence of nest definition on estimates of nesting success in Burrowing Owls. VICTORIA GARCIA and COURTNEY J. CONWAY, Arizona Coop. Fish & Wildl. Res. Unit, School Nat. Res., Univ. Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

* Nest predation and the expression of alternative reproductive strategies: an experimental test. J. J. FONTAINE and T. E. MARTIN, Montana Coop. Wildl. Res. Unit, Univ. Mont., Missoula, MT.

* Non-destructive sampling of maternal DNA from the external shell of bird eggs. GREGORY SCHMALTZ, CHRISTOPHER M. SOMERS, PRIYA SHARMA and JAMES S. QUINN, Dept Biol., McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON.

* Reproductive ecology of the cooperatively polyandrous Galapagos Hawk: how many males are enough - and who decides? KENNETH M. LEVENSTEIN, Env. Sci. Prog.. Dept. Biol. Sci., Arkansas State Univ., Jonesboro. AR, JAMES C. BEDNARZ, Dept. Biol. Sci., Arkansas State Univ., Jonesboro, AR, MICHELLE D. CANNON, Dept. Forest Sci., Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR, and PATRICIA G. PARKER, Dept. Biol., Univ. St. Louis, St. Louis, MO.

* Immunocompetence and neonatal daily investigator handling of two cavity nesting species. MICHAEL W. BUTLER and ALFRED M. DUFTY, Jr., Dept. Biol., Boise State Univ., Boise, ID.

* Asynchronous hatching in Florida Scrub-Jays is associated with lighter females and smaller egg volumes. RAOUL K. BOUGHTON, ELI BRIDGE, STEPHEN J SCHOECH, Univ. Memphis, Memphis, TN, and REED BOWMAN, Archbold Biol. Sta, Lake Placid, FL.

* Habitat-specific demography and invasion by exotic forest birds in Hawaii. JEFFREY T. FOSTER, Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1L.

Session IB. Conservation. Robert J. Cooper, chair.

Video evidence and sightings of Ivory-billed Woodpecker in eastern Arkansas in 2004 - 2005. KENNETH V. ROSENBERG, JOHN W. FITZPATRICK, MARTJAN LAMMERTINK and RONALD W. ROHRBAUGH, Lab. Ornithol., Cornell Univ., Ithaca NY.