1981 IBAC Symposium

Organised by
Professor P. J. B. Slater

Held at the University of Sussex Conference Centre, Ashdown Forest, Sussex.

University of Sussex, England 1981. Excursion on Bluebell steam railway.
L>R: Poul Bondesen, ?, Carl Weismann, Johnnie Johnson, Marion Kirby, John Kirby. (photo: P. Sellar)

University of Sussex, England. 1981.
L>R: Dominic Couzens, Tom Slater, Elisabeth Slater, John Burton,
Phil Hollom, Rosemary Jellis (photo: P. Sellar)

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Programme

 

Friday, 25 September 1981

Arrival & registration

 

Saturday, 26 September 1981

1000 Ian Baker (BBC engineering): From Syrinx to Loudspeaker

1130 John Fisher: The parabolic reflector

1200 Open forum on field recorders - Sony, Stellavox, Uher, Nagra

1345 Excursions: Ashdown Forest walk, Beachy Head, or mystery tour

1830 conference dinner

T C White: A task but no taskmaster

 

Sunday, 27 September 1981

0930 Peter Grieg-Smth: Functional significance of song and alarm calls in the Stonechat (Saxicola torquata)

1100 Peter Slater: Bird song learning: a review

1415 Brian Lewis: General strategies for directional hearing in animals

1545 Keith Wheatley: Song sequences in Mistle Thrushes

1615 Discussion: What are the possibilities for scientific contribution by the amateur field recordist and are these being fully exploited?

1930 V C Lewis: Unusual and interesting bird sound recordings

 

Monday, 28 September 1981

0945 Poul Hansen: Song dialects in the Yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella)

1015 P Bondesen: Various types of Whitethroat (Sylvia communis) song

1100 IBAC general meeting

1430 Carl Weismann: The Stanmer park chaffinches (Fringilla coelebs) and New Zealand

Peter Slater: Cultural changes in Chaffinch song over 18 years

F A Clements: Shorter changes in song: 1978-1981

S. Muldal: Whales and nightingales

Demonstrations of Kay Sonagraph and Unigon Continuous Spectrum Analyser