Photo D.M. Harebottle		We all stayed at different hotels in Hamburg. This is Hotel Baseler Hof on the Esplanade where many delegates were accommodated, including Doug.
Photo D.M Harebottle		The conference was held at the CCH Conference Centre, a multi-floor centre with excellent conference facilities.
Photo D.M. Harebottle		The opening ceremony was held in one of the many Halls in the CCH. These rooms can probably accommodate more than 1500 people!
Photo D.M. Harebottle		Dammtor railway station, situated within 5 min walking distance from the CCH. Most delegates enjoyed lunch at one of the many, and more economical, fast-food outlets located in the station building.
Photo D.M. Harebottle		The Thursday was excursion day. Doug's trip took him to Wismar Bay on the Baltic Sea coast.
Photo D.M. Harebottle		Looking over to Langenwerder Island, a 35 ha bird sanctuary and nature area just north of the town of Wismar.
Photo D.M. Harebottle		To get to the island one had to walk across a small channel. Water depth is driven by wind tides as the Baltic Sea is not driven by oceanic tides.
Photo D.M. Harebottle		They do a fair amount of bird trapping on the island. While we were there a female Common Kestrel was caught in a modified aerial clap trap.
Photo D.M. Harebottle		International birders doing what they do best....twitching!
Photo D.M. Harebottle		The house on the island where the warden lives. Wardens are volunteer workers and are rotated every 4-5 weeks during the summer months. The house is uninhabitated during the winter.
Photo D.M. Harebottle		After lunch, we were given a rundown of the work that is carried out on the island by the current warden (he is seated near the telescope).
Photo D.M. Harebottle		Wader trapping and ringing forms an integral part of the bird monitoring on the island. Here is one of the walk-in traps used to catch Ruddy Turnstones, Little Stint, Curlews, etc.
Photo M. Anderson		David Bird, renowned American raptor researcher, and Doug making their way back across the channel, which had definitely deepened since the morning crossing!.
Photo D.M. Harebottle		There are some interesting scultpures in and around Hamburg. This piece was situated close to the CCH.
Photo D.M. Harebottle		The Old Botanical Garden was situated just opposite from the CCH and many delegates used the lunch break to walk around the garden.
Photo D.M. Harebottle		There were many exhibitors at the IOC. One stand was dedictaed to displaying some of Germany's birdlife with mounted specimens....what would a trip to Germany be without a picture of a White Stork on a nest!
Photo D.M. Harebottle		Lunch in the botanical garden. Clockwise left to right - Dieter Oschadleus, Les Underhill, Mark Anderson (Northern Cape), Wendy Borello (BirdLife Botswana),Yahkat Barshep (AP Leventis Ornithological Research Institute, Nigeria), Lizanne Roxburgh (Zambia).
Photo D.M Harebottle		Les delivering his 'waterbird index' oral in Hall 2.
Photo D.M. Harebottle		The conference banquet took place on Saturday evening at 19h30.
Photo D.M. Harebottle		A typical street scene in Hamburg.
Photo D.M. Harebottle		A local history museum, located not too far from the CCH.
Photo D.M. Harebottle		Doug took a harbour tour on the Sunday morning before flying back. This trip takes visitors through the old harbour and some of the older parts of Hamburg.
Photo D.M. Harebottle		The waterfront area under development. Many new buildings were in the process of being erected while others were undergoing reconstruction or revamping.
Photo D.M. Harebottle		The train system consists of both surface and underground systems. IOC delegates were allowed to travel free of charge on all public transport for the duration of the conference.
Photo D.M. Harebottle		Overall it was a good congress...with smiles all round....especially as Les was elected as Vice-President of the IOC Committee (congrats Les!). We look forward to 2010 when the 25th IOC will take place in Brazil. This will be the first time that the congress will have been hosted by a South American country!.

ADU contributions at the congress

• Altwegg R, Shaub M, Roulin A. Age-specific fitness components and their temporal variation in the barn owl (oral presentation in Symposium)
• Crawford RJM, Dundee BL. Managing responses of four seabirds to large changes in the abundance of Sardine and Anchovy in the Benguela upwelling system (oral presentation in Symposium)
• Harebottle DM, Williams AJ, Weiss Y, Tong G. Ten years of waterbird counts on an urban wetland: Paarl Sewage Works, South Africa, 1994-2004.(poster)
• Harebottle DM, Oschadleus HD. AFRING and the future of waterbird ringing in Africa (Round Table Discussion)
• Helm B, Underhill LG. Coping with seasonal challenges: the role and regulation of molt (co-convenors of Symposium)
• Makhado AB, Crawford RJM, Underhill LG. The impact of seal predation on Cape Gannets at Malgas Island, South Africa. (poster)
• Oschadleus HD, Underhill LG. Variation in timing and duration of primary moult in Ploceidae weavers (oral presentation in Symposium)
• Oschadleus HD. Roosting behavior in Southern Masked-Weavers (Ploceidae) in South Africa. (poster)
• Underhill LG. Developments in trend analysis for waterbirds. (keynote oral in Symposium)

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