North Atlantic Roseate Tern Webinar

The roseate tern conservation, research and policy practitioners from both sides of the Atlantic will meet to exchange experience and knowledge on key conservation issues concerning the species. The meeting will take place online using one of the webinar platforms on 24-25 February 2020. There will be two half a day sessions due to the time difference.

​These exchanges are not new, in fact practitioners from both sides of the Atlantic used to meet annually as part of larger conferences in times when resources and carbon footprint were perhaps less of an issue. There have also been sporadic cross-Atlantic visits and other communication platforms such as the Roseate Tern Newsletter and West Atlantic Roseate Tern Recovery Meetings. Certainly, these exchanges have yielded positive results and ideas, such as nest boxes, which were first introduced from the US to Ireland, then to the UK and more recently to France.
 
The agenda is being finalised and soon we will share more details, but we have identified several topics of interest, i.e. predation and biosecurity, habitat management/ creation, tracking at breeding colonies and during migration, population and diet monitoring, renewable energy and food resources. 
 
More details on registration and participation are here. 

More info:
Daniel Piec: daniel.piec@rspb.org.uk for Europe including Azores, or
Susi von Oettingen: susi_vonoettingen@fws.gov for the US, Canada and Caribbean.