Programme

Monday, August 21

12:00

19:00

Registration of participants at the main building of the Estonian University of Life Sciences, Kreutzwaldi tn. 1A Tartu

Tuesday, August 22

The main building of the Estonian University of Life Sciences, Kreutzwaldi str. 1A Tartu

8:00

8:30

Registration and coffee / posters to the wall

8:30

8:50

Opening of the International Crane Conference

Hanno Zingel, Ministry of Climate

Ülle Jaakma, Rector of the Estonian University of Life Sciences

8:50

9:05

George Archibald – In memory of our departed colleagues

9:05

9:15

Ivar Ojaste – Organisational notes of the conference

9:15

9:45

Arne Ader – Introducing Estonia

PLENARY / KEYNOTE

9:45

10:30

George Archibald –

Crane Workshops

10:30

11:30

Richard Beilfuss –

50 years of global crane conservation strategy and impact

11:30

12:30

Ran Nathan –

Movement ecology of Common cranes: from soaring and migration, through gut microbiota to human-wildlife conflicts and major avian flu outbreak

12:30

15:00

Lunch / poster session

15:00

21:00

Cruise on river Emajõgi. Euro cocktail* event with a local musician

Wednesday, August 23

8:30

9:00

Arrival, coffee / posters session

SESSION: RARE SPECIES CONSERVATION

9:00

9:25

Hillary Thompson –

Twenty years of reintroducing Whooping Cranes in North America

9:25

9:50

Triet Tran –

The conservation of Eastern Sarus Cranes in Southeast Asia

9:50

10:15

Wamiti Wanyoike –

An overview of applied research for the conservation of Endangered Grey Crowned cranes in East Africa

10:15

10:40

Werner Schröder –

Crossborder Crane Conservation in East Africa

10:40

11:00

Coffee / posters session

11:00

11:25

Hadis Tadele –

Breeding Population of Wattled Cranes (Bugeranus carunculatus) and Conservation Challenges in the Rift Valley wetlands, Ethiopia

11:25

11:50

Abebayehu Aticho –

Effect of seasonality and environmental changes on crane population: A case of black-crowned crane population density in Gambella, Ethiopia

11:50

12:15

Dessalegn Obsi –

Land Use Land Cover Change and Public Perceptions Differently

Affect Black Crowned Crane (Balearica pavonina) Conservation:

Evidence from Jimma Zone Southwestern Ethiopia

12:15

13:30

Lunch / posters session

SESSION: MANAGEMENT OF CRANE POPULATIONS

13:30

13:55

Karoline Hemminger –

Winners and losers of land use change: A systematic review of interactions between the world’s crane species (Gruidae) and the agricultural sector

13:55

14:20

Anne Lacy –

The right tool alone is not always the solution

14:20

14:45

Lovisa Nilsson –

Diversionary feeding of common cranes and greylag geese to reduce damage risk to crops - does it work?

14:45

15:10

Joseph Mwangi –

Promoting Climate Smart Agriculture as an intervention to reverse the current decline of Cranes in Western Kenya

15:10

15:35

Gilbert Tayebwa –

The Status of Grey Crowned Crane Poisoning in Uganda and Current Mitigation Measures

15:35

16:00

Coffee / poster session

SESSION: POPULATION AND MIGRATION ECOLOGY OF CRANES

16:00

16:25

Tariku Mekonnen Gutema –

Seasonal Migration and Challenges, of Black  Crowned Crane (Balearica pavonina) in Ethiopia-South Sudan  Transboundary

16:25

16:50

Shimelis Aynalem Zelelew –

Nest Ecology of Black Crowned Cranes in Lake Tana area Wetlands

16:50

17:15

Günter Nowald –

Research and conservation of Black-necked cranes (Grus nigricollis) in Bhutan: Migration

17:15

17:40

George Archibald, Alain Salvi –

International monitoring of the eastern migration route of the Siberian Crane in Yakutia

17:40

17:30

Coffee / poster session

ART PROGRAMME

17:30

Hermann Dirks –

Slide show with music „Fascination Cranes“

Roger Book –

„Enjoying cranes”

Naturalistic Association “Le Gru”

Film „Where the wind takes you“

Joosep Matjus

Film „The Wind Sculpted Land“

Thursday, August 24

8:30

9:00

Arrival, coffee / posters session

SESSION: POPULATION AND MIGRATION ECOLOGY OF CRANES

9:00

9:25

Kunikazu Momose –

Tracking of the red-crowned cranes banded in Hokkaido, Japan

9:25

9:50

Morgane Gicquel –

Understanding the Demography of European Common Cranes: Insights from colour banding and resighting data

9:50

10:15

Marketa Tichackova, Petr Lumpe –

The Common Crane (Grus grus) in the Czech Republic, the behaviour and changes in migration pattern of tagged cranes

10:15

10:40

Angela Schmitz-Ornés –

Family behavior after hatching of young Eurasian Cranes (Grus grus) in their breeding grounds of Northern Germany

10:40

11:05

Beate Blahy-Henne, Eberhard Henne –

Deeper Insights in Crane pairs’ Life

11:05

11:30

Coffee / poster session

SESSION: POPULATION AND MIGRATION ECOLOGY OF CRANES

11:30

11:55

Magne Husby –

Predator and prey, cranes and other peatland birds

11:55

12:20

Antti Karlin –

Common cranes (Grus grus) in Finland – nesting and migration

12:20

12:45

Johan Månsson –

Flyways of Common Cranes (Grus grus) breeding in Fennoscandia

12:45

13:10

Tatiana Kuzmenko –

Common Crane in Polesia, Ukraine

13:10

14:00

Lunch / poster session

14:00

16:00

Workshop „Colour-ringing of cranes and use of drones in crane research“

16:00

22:00

Official dinner at Kuremaa Castle and field trip to Kivijärve lake

Friday, August 25

8:30

9:00

Arrival, coffee / posters session

SESSION: POPULATION AND MIGRATION ECOLOGY OF CRANES

9:00

9:25

Ivar Ojaste -

Findings from the study of Eurasian crane population in Estonia

9:25

9:50

Jozsef Katona, Zsolt Végvári –

The Eurasian Crane migration in Hungary

9:50

10:15

Andreas Lehrmann, Günter Nowald –

The Crane population in Germany - new insights

10:15

10:40

Alain Salvi –

Evolution of the status of the Common Crane Grus grus in France

from the 1970s to the present day

10:40

11:05

Sebastien Merle –

Development of the wintering of the Common crane (Grus grus) in central France

11:05

11:30

Coffee / poster session

11:30

11:55

Sophie Dulau Laugareil, Patric Dulau –

Behaviour of the wintering Eurasian cranes in the area of the National Nature Reserve of Arjuzanx: 15 years monitoring

11:55

12:20

Kees Woutersen –

Common Crane spring migration over the Pyrenees

12:20

12:45

José Antonio Román Álvarez, Carlos Cruz –

Evolution of the Iberian population of crane, 2013/2023

12:45

13:10

Ivar Ojaste, Günter Nowald, Alain Salvi –

Nature conservation, cranes and the role of the craniacs in it

13:10

15:00

Closing ceremony of the conference (Professor Kalev Sepp), lunch

15:00

Post-conference excursion „Northern and western Estonia“.

Tartu-Toila-Valaste-Vihula Manor House; crane watching at Lahemaa National Park.

Saturday, August 26

Crane watching at Lahemaa National Park. Drive to Haapsalu via Tallinn.

Crane watching in Matsalu National Park area.

Sunday, August 27

Drive to Tallinn.

POSTERS

Antti Karlin

Ringing and recoveries of the Common crane (Grus grus) in Finland

Sophie Dulau Laugareil

Public reception in the National Nature Reserve of Arjuzanx : key factor in a local acceptance and a better conservation of the Common cranes (Grus grus)

Isabel Barwisch, Wolfgang Mewes, Angela Schmitz Ornés, Sebastian Gunther

Heavy metal residues in eggshells of Common Cranes (Grus grus)

Igor Davydenko, Vitalii Kazannyk,

Valentin Serebryakov

Are the terms of Common Cranes' spring arrival in Kyiv for 100 years changed?

Alessandro Ghiggi, Luca Baghino

Weather factors acting on the pre-breeding peak migration of Common Crane Grus grus along the mediterranean coast between the Gulf of Lion and the Gulf of Genoa

Isabel Barwisch

Shared responsibilities and sleepless nights - Threats to eggs of Common cranes

Alexander Abuladze

Monitoring of the Common Crane in Georgia: 1991-2022