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4th International PIF ConferencePIF McAllen Conference Supporters The 4th International Partners in Flight Conference will be held 13-16 February 2008, at the new McAllen Convention Center in McAllen, Texas. The conference theme will be "Tundra to Tropics: Connecting Birds, Habitats and People", which will be shared with International Migratory Bird Day for 2008. The focus of the conference will be international connections of all sorts that further bird and habitat conservation throughout the Western Hemisphere. Concurrent paper sessions will focus on issues in bird conservation and will be of two types: (1) standard sessions typical of scientific society meetings; and (2) sessions followed by a facilitated discussion session. The goal of each of the latter sessions will be to produce a strategic action plan to be distributed to all partners within weeks of the conference. There will also be keynote speakers, vendors, social events, a poster session, a variety of single- and multi-day birding field trips, and a proceedings that will include papers developed from posters. Details will be posted, as they develop, here on the PIF website and distributed through various bird conservation list serves. In the mean time, contact Terry Rich with inquiries. PIF McAllen Call for Papers (abstracts due 10 September 2007) PIF McAllen Conference Preliminary Schedule 4th International PIF Conference Flier (in downloadable PDF format). Please Distribute! PIF McAllen Conference Steering Committee PIF McAllen Conference Sponsorship Letter PIF McAllen Conference Supporters
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