RT08: Standing committee on applied ornithology: Roles and operations

Hans Blokpoel1 & John Temple Lang2

1Canadian Wildlife Service, 49 Camelot Drive, Nepean, Ontario, K1A 0H3, Canada, e-mail hans.blokpoel@ec.gc.ca, 2Avenue Chateau de Walzin 12 (6), Brussels, Belgium

Blokpoel, H. & Temple Lang, J. 1999. Standing committee on applied ornithology: Roles and operations. In: Adams, N.J. & Slotow, R.H. (eds) Proc. 22 Int. Ornithol. Congr., Durban: 3178. Johannesburg: BirdLife South Africa.

The IOC Standing Committee on Applied Ornithology was set up by the IOC in 1986. It now has Working Groups on Bird Damage to Agriculture; Global Contaminants Problems in Birds; Birds as Indicators of Environmental Change; Diseases transmitted by Birds to People and Livestock; and Bird Hazards to Aircraft. SCAO has seen its role as gathering and transmitting information, on these subjects, to non-ornithologists for their practical use. This RTD will discuss the roles and operations of the SCAO and its Working Groups, and whether new Groups on satellite telemetry and on conservation ornithology should be set up. It will discuss putting information collected by SCAO and its Groups on an IOC Website. A new executive will be elected.

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