Monday, 31 August

 

08.30 - 11.30: Registration (lobby)

11.30 - 12.30: Lunch (Hotel restaurant, 2nd floor)

12:30 - 13.00: Opening and welcome to the 16th International Grouse Symposium

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Session M1

Kathy Martin, Resilience and vulnerabilities of Lagopus to environmental change; individual, population and species distribution perspectives. (Key note)​

Joy Coppes, Chasing climate change: Temperature and precipitation affect temporal advancement rate in capercaillie lekking phenology across Europe. (15-minute talk)

Dorota Lawreszuk, Conservation of Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) in the Augustowska Forest, Poland (15-minute talk)

Nicholas Parker, Exploring demographic and climatic drivers of seasonal survival for white-tailed ptarmigan using a historical dataset from Colorado, USA(15-minute talk)

Stephanie Galla, Using genomic tools to understand diversity and diet in declining Columbian sharp-tailed grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus columbianus) (15-minute talk)

Shawna Zimmerman Greater sage-grouse and the expanding conservation genomics toolkit (15-minute talk)

George Barrowclough Geographic variation in the spruce grouse (Canachites canadensis) based on whole genome sequences. (15-minute talk)

Anthony Wetherhill Arctic-alpine specialists are being replaced by widespread species in Scottish mountain areas. (Speed talk)

Jonathan Dinkins, Comparing the effects of VHF and GPS transmitter configurations on greater sage-grouse survival. (Speed talk)

James O'Neill, Using GPS and drone technology to monitor the threatened population of red grouse (Lagopus scotica) in Ireland: a first look. (Speed talk)

Meghan Mahoney, An examination of white-tailed ptarmigan mating systems for two populations in Colorado, USA. (Speed talk)

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18.30 - 20.00: Dinner (Hotel restaurant, 2nd floor)

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Tuesday, 1 september

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06.30 - 08.00: Breakfast

08.00 - 08.10: Messages / Announcement  

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Michael Schroeder, Grouse translocations: successes, failures, and lessons. (Key note)

Laura Dykstra, Habitat patches, leks, and nesting areas shape the post-release dispersal movements of translocated sharp-tailed grouse. (15-minute talk)

Philip Warren (presented by Holly Appleby), A review of black grouse translocation projects to inform future conservation programmes. (15-minute talk). 

Hiroshi Nakamura, Reestablished population of Japanese rock ptarmigan Lagopus muta japonica in the Central Japan Alps. (15 minute talk)

Johann Delcourt, Post-release survival and breeding performance of translocated Black Grouse Lyrurus tetrix: identifying management levers for population reinforcement (15 minte talk)

Laura Dykstra, Reintroducing sharp-tailed grouse to western Montana, USA: A population viability analysis. (speed talk)

Tom Hornby, Black Grouse Range Expansion in northern England. (speed talk)

Thomas Vogler, Evaluating drone-based thermal imaging for monitoring capercaillie. (speed talk)

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11.30 - 12.30: Lunch

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Jonathan Dinkins, Management in Action: Implementing Multiple Techniques to Reverse Concerning Population Declines within the Baker Sage-Grouse Priority Area for Conservation (15-minute talk).

Cameron Aldridge, Spatial Conservation Prioritization for Sage-grouse: Co-producing management applications to optimize conservation delivery (15-minute talk).

Christian Hagen, Can you have your grouse and eat them too? Understanding the effects of harvest on survival dynamics of greater sage-grouse in southeastern Oregon. (15-minute talk).

Jeffrey Beck, Greater Sage-Grouse Move Seasonally Along the Same Sagebrush Corridors as Pronghorn and Mule Deer in the Upper Green River Basin, Wyoming, USA. (15-minute talk).

Dwayne Elmore, Factors affecting nest and brood success of greater prairie-chickens. (15-minute talk).

Lance B. McNew, Toward Automated AI-assisted Monitoring of Lek-mating Grouse (15-minutes talk).

David Dahlgren, Using Automated Recording Units (ARUs) to Estimate Sympatric Dusky and Ruffed Grouse Breeding Abundance in Utah, USA. (15-minute talk).

Kelly Walton, Who gives a hoot. Passive acoustic monitoring with AI-based detection and identification reveal sooty grouse hooting patterns in western Oregon, USA. (15-minute talk).

Michael Grüter, Monitoring capercaillie populations in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland. (15-minute talk).

Elisabeth Teige, Understanding drivers and consequences influencing use of a federal conservation program by Lesser prairie-chickens in Kansas, USA. (Speed talk).

Olivia Sembach, Small-scale habitat, big impact: Greater sage-grouse brood space use in central Oregon. (Speed talk).

Seth Dettenmaier, From behavior to treatment: Integrating ecological trap theory into conifer management decision support for greater sage-grouse. (Speed talk).

Megan Milligan, Effects of free-roaming horses on vital rates of greater sage-grouse across their range. (Speed talk).

Jennifer Forbey, Understanding and harnessing the nutritional wisdom of grouse. (Speed talk).

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16.25 -17.00: David Dahlgren, Grouse Group and IUCN, closing the day

18.00 - 19.30: Poster session (see list here)

19.30 - 21.00: Dinner

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Wednesday 2. september

Nordic day

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06.30 - 08.00: Breakfast

07.30 - 08.00: Registration for Nordic Day participants

08.00 - 08.10: Messages / Announcement

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Olafur K. Nielsen, Changes in rock ptarmigan population dynamics in northeast Iceland 1981 to 2025. (Invited speaker)

Andreas Lindén, Wildlife triangles - Monitoring and research of grouse populations in Finland. (Invited speaker)

Jacob Höglund (presented by Theodore Squires), Allele frequency fluctuations are associated with demographic cycling in Icelandic rock ptarmigan. (15-minute talk)

Kristinn P, Magnusson, Genome-wide association study suggests highly polygenic architecture for condition-related traits in Icelandic rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta). (15-minute talk)

Theodore Squires, Genetic risks to ptarmigan populations based on climate adaptations. (Speed talk)

Maja Svedberg, Temporal genomics of willow ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus). (Speed talk)

Jo Inge Breisjøberget, Experimental harvest of willow ptarmigan, black grouse and capercaillie. (15-minute talk)

Eivind Flittie Kleiven, Adaptive management of willow ptarmigan in the era of rapid climate change: Combining forecasting and experiments. (15-minute talk)

Lars Rød-Eriksen, Hønsefuglportalen - A collaborative platform for game bird monitoring. (15-minute talk)

Stian Sundsvik, Examination and prediction of willow ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus) detectability in relation to environmental and sampling event covariates. (Speed talk)

Torstein Storaas, Increasing flushing distances of grouse throughout autumn: relevance to harvest management. (Speed talk)

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11.35  - 12.30: Lunch

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Tomas Willebrand, Willow ptarmigan hunting on state-owned land – before and after reforms 1993/1996. (Invited speaker)

Lasse Frost Eriksen, Life and death in the mountains: A decade of individual-based research on the willow ptarmigan in central Norway. (Invited speaker)

Constantina Georgiade, Long-term wind turbine effects on grouse species in Finnish boreal forest. (15-minute talk)

Torfinn Jahren, Impact of wind turbine noise on black grouse vocalization display and communication during lekking season. (15-minute talk)

Mikkel Andreas Jørnsøn Kvasnes, Habitat selection of adult capercaillie in a human‑dominated forest landscape: the roles of wind turbines and forest structure. (15-minute talk)

Jonas Hagen, Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) phytochemistry predicts male capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) browsing during winter. (Speed talk)

Marius Kjønsberg, Autumn habitat selection of rock ptarmigan at the southern range in Sweden. (Speed talk)

James Martin, Demography of an alpine bird using non-invasive spatial capture recapture. (Speed talk)

Jørund Rolstad & Per Wegge, Five decades of grouse studies at Varaldskogen: The ecology of capercaillie and black grouse in a changing forest landscape. (Invited speaker).

Janne Miettinen, Grouse January hunting bag in Finnish state-owned forests in 2020-2026. (Speed talk)

Torfinn Jahren, The Ringaby-method: Aerial detection of capercaillie leks in boreal forest landscapes.  (Speed talk)

Roar Solheim, Foxy ladies. Why do female capercaillies select people as mates? (Speed talk)

Tomas Willebrand, Forty-four years of change: Capercaillie and black grouse responses to changes

 in forestry, climate and vole decline in central Sweden. (Speed talk)

 

​16.30 - 17.15: Nordic wrap-up and panel discussion

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Thursday 3. September  

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06.30 - 07.15: Breakfast

07.30: Departure to field excursion for all participants to Finnskogen. More information here

 

19:30: Conference banquet (at the hotel)

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Friday 4. september

 

06.30 - 08.30: Breakfast

08.30 - 08.35: Messages / Announcement

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Erlend B. Nilsen, A century-long quest for the key to unlock the secrets behind the dynamics of Scandinavia's alpine food web. (Key note)

Peter Coates (presented by Cameron Aldridge), A hierarchical monitoring and modeling framework for range wide population dynamics and conservation risk of greater sage-grouse in western North America. (15-minute talk)

Cameron Aldridge, Evaluating relationships between greater sage-grouse trends and seasonal habitats to identify population-level management targets (15-minute talk)

Carl Lundblad, Leveraging a novel hierarchical monitoring framework to evaluate conservation effectiveness for greater sage-grouse and inform North American sagebrush ecosystem restoration. (15-minute talk). 

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​10.50 - 11.30: Summary & closing by the committee and Grouse Group Chairman David Dahlgren 

11.30 - 12.30: Lunch

12.30: Departure for Post conference Adventure to Jotunheimen (for registered participants). 

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