8:00 a.m. Registration and donuts at Darbeth Hall. Silent auction setup in President’s Gallery, Darbeth Hall

9:00 Welcome and Announcements
    Chuck Otte, President, Kansas Ornithological Society
    Max Thompson, Local Committee Chairman

9:15 Habitat Associations of Grassland Birds Along a Gradient of Eastern Redcedar Succession - Scott W. Schmidt* and Elmer J. Finck, Department of Biological Sciences, Fort Hays State University

9:30 Bird Occupancy in Relation to Habitat Structure in the Cross Timbers of Kansas - Nathan S. Holoubek* and William E. Jensen, Department of Biological Sciences, Emporia State University

9:45 State Acres for Wildlife Enhancement and Grassland Birds: Implications for the Role of America’s Farmland in Conservation - Alaina D. Thomas*, L. B. McNew, B. K. Sandercock, Division of Biology, Kansas State University

10:00 Break and Silent Auction

10:15 Habitat Characteristics Surrounding Prairie-Chicken Leks of Different Sizes in Northwestern Kansas - Victoria Cikanek* and Greg Farley, Division of Biology, Fort Hays State University

10:30 Greater Prairie-Chicken Predation Pressure in Central Kansas - Lyla M. Hunt*, L. B. McNew, A. J. Gregory, and B. K. Sandercock, Division of Biology, Kansas State University

10:45 Effects of Grazing Treatments on Nest Success of Wet Meadow Breeding Birds at Cheyenne Bottoms Preserve, Barton County, KS - Clinton J. Helms*, Jordana J. LaFantasie, Department of Biological Sciences, Fort Hays State University and Robert Penner, The Nature Conservancy, Kansas Chapter

11:00 Business Meeting

11:30 - 1:30 Lunch for attendees and meeting of the board in Roy L. Smith Student Center. Lunch in the college cafeteria is available to everyone for $6.00.

1:30 p.m. Birdwatchers Hour

2:30 Changes in Breeding Phenology and Reproductive Success of Long-Distance Migratory Shorebirds: Comparative Study Over Two Decades - Eunbi Kwon¹*, David B. Lank² and Brett K. Sandercock¹, ¹Division of Biology, Kansas State University, ²Centre for Wildlife Ecology, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada

2:45 Demographic Responses of Greater Prairie-Chickens to Patch-Burn Grazing on Private Lands - Virginia L. Winder*, Amy N. Erickson, Lance B. McNew and Brett K. Sandercock, Division of Biology, Kansas State University

3:00 A Proposed Large Scale Approach to Assess Free-ranging Cat Populations and Estimate Associated Impact on Free-living Bird Populations - Greg Farley* and Andrée Brisson, Department of Biological Sciences, Fort Hays State University

3:15 Break and Silent Auction

3:30 Patch-burn Grazing and Demographic Performance of Grassland Songbirds - Brett K. Sandercock*, Jennifer L. Sojka, Christopher C. Then, and William E. Jensen

3:45 Is There a Landscape-scale Grassland Habitat Threshold in the Abundance of Upland Sandpiper? *John Schukman, Leavenworth, KS 66048 and Jeff Neel, Manhattan, KS

4:00 p.m. KOS Business Meeting

6:30 p.m. Banquet in Roy L. Smith Student Center

7:30 p.m. Awards and speaker, Messenger Hall