Proceedings Of The Eighty-Ninth Annual Meeting

The eighty-ninth annual meeting of the Wilson Ornithological Society (WOS) was held Thursday 17 April, through Sunday, 20 April 2008 at the Mobile Convention Center, Mobile, Alabama in joint session with the Association of Field Ornithologists (AFO), at the invitation of the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) Migratory Bird Research Group and sponsored by the Gulf Coast Bird Observatory, Mississippi Coast Audubon Society, University of Southern Mississippi, Dauphin Island Sea Laboratory, University of California Press, USM Coastal Research and Extension Center, and the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR). The opening ceremony continued with a presentation by Edward H. Burtt Jr. on Margaret Morse Nice, which led to his introduction of Jerome A. Jackson, who concluded the opening ceremony by delivering the Margaret Morse Nice Plenary Lecture, "Thinking like a mountain, seeing like a woodpecker: behavioral ecology and conservation of woodpeckers." After presenting AFO awards, President Bonter returned the podium to WOS President Rising, who in turn thanked the three elected members of the WOS Council who had completed their terms of office, Robert L. Curry, Daniel Klem Jr., and Douglas W. White, and welcomed the three newly elected members of Council, Jameson F. Chace, Sara R. Morris, and Margaret A. Voss.