The 'Seabird Group 10th International Conference' was a success with 102 participants representing 17 countries.

The oral presentations embraced a variety of topics clustered around the topics 'Breeding ecology', 'Feeding ecology, energetics & conservation', 'Distribution & migration', 'Population ecology'. The high level poster exhibition grouped ± 30 posters.

The two most outstanding posters were awarded a special prize by a scientific jury.

The award for the best overall poster was given to:

Chris Thaxter for the poster:
Flexibility of foraging behaviour in two pursuit-diving seabirds: the importance of prey transport constraints
Chris Thaxter, Sarah Wanless, Mike P. Harris, Francis Daunt, Silvano Benvenuti, Yutaka Watanuki, David Grémillet, Simon Greenstreet and Keith Hamer

and

Renata Medeiros was given the award for the best student poster:
Small birds in a large ocean: how to study the diets of different storm petrels?
Renata Medeiros, Mark Bolton, William O.C. Symondson, Jaime A. Ramos and
Robert J. Thomas

The abstracts of the oral and poster presentations were published as:

VLIZ Special Publication 42. Communications of the Research Institute for Nature and Forest – INBO.M.2009.1.

Group picture of the participants of the 'Seabird Group 10th International Conference

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Venue
Provinciaal Hof - Provincial Court
Markt 3
8000 Brugge
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View on the Belfry and canals of Bruges.

Organizers